EPTIf there is illegal content, authorities should take it up with the owners, which is how these things are normally handled as far as I'm aware. It's hardly relevant to the general public, or significant enough to warrant some sort of an extended discussion (or anger).
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
If there is illegal content, authorities should take it up with the owners, which is how these things are normally handled as far as I'm aware. It's hardly relevant to the general public, or significant enough to warrant some sort of an extended discussion (or anger). | ||
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
On September 18 2012 01:52 JustPassingBy wrote: I agree with Mity. I checked some of the subreddits you listed and they were either banned, or contained no child pornography. Apart from that, some of the subreddits are not what you want us to believe they are, like "rapingwomen", as disgusting as it sounds, just links to news articles with stupid comments. No pornography or whatsoever. Well the mods have to be constantly on guard to ban this kind of stuff, otherwise it'll just draw more media attention. I use reddit daily. I visit front, funny, league, and pokemon a lot. Fun. Reddit could definitely work with authorities to try to catch child porn posters, though it would gather a lot of negative attention in the form of "Hey you're giving their IP address to officials. What if you tracked my IP address and stole it?!". | ||
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See.Blue
United States2673 Posts
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Recognizable
Netherlands1552 Posts
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Shebuha
Canada1335 Posts
I personally find it really weird that there is porn of 18+ girls that look like they're super young... because to the viewer the girl is basically a teenager and it ends fulfilling the role of child porn in a way. I also find "barely legal" porn to be strange.. The girl is a child, then she turns 18 and is an adult and can go do porn legally and it's okay to drool over her getting fucked, but 2 days ago it was illegal? OBVIOUSLY there has to be a line drawn between legal and illegal, but I think it's creepy that there is porn that is trying to keep it AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to illegal. | ||
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Clarity_nl
Netherlands6826 Posts
On September 18 2012 02:07 Shebuha wrote: IMO it's not really right to have these "child porn" reddits floating around. I can't blame the site as a whole, but (as others have said) it feels weird to look at funny pictures on a website that also harbours CP. It's hard to say how many of the pics are actually underage girls though, and with a lot of "amateur/home made" style porn you can never really be sure how old the girls are. Porn of 18 year old girls has always weirded me out as well though, and that shit is everywhere. I personally find it really weird that there is porn of 18+ girls that look like they're super young... because to the viewer the girl is basically a teenager and it ends fulfilling the role of child porn in a way. I also find "barely legal" porn to be strange.. The girl is a child, then she turns 18 and is an adult and can go do porn legally and it's okay to drool over her getting fucked, but 2 days ago it was illegal? OBVIOUSLY there has to be a line drawn between legal and illegal, but I think it's creepy that there is porn that is trying to keep it AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to illegal. You said it yourself there has to be a line, no exceptions or the whole thing falls apart. | ||
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perser84
Germany399 Posts
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Fishgle
United States2174 Posts
On September 18 2012 02:02 obesechicken13 wrote: Well the mods have to be constantly on guard to ban this kind of stuff, otherwise it'll just draw more media attention. I use reddit daily. I visit front, funny, league, and pokemon a lot. Fun. Reddit could definitely work with authorities to try to catch child porn posters, though it would gather a lot of negative attention in the form of "Hey you're giving their IP address to officials. What if you tracked my IP address and stole it?!". rofl the idea that people would use such a mainstream site to share child porn is ridiculous. And i'm pretty sure that reddit is legally obliged to report any and all child porn to the authorities anyway. this whole thing is just more sensationalist bs from /r/shitredditsays anyway, (though some of the shit on reddit is pretty bad, especially the gore) | ||
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Sated
England4983 Posts
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Doomblaze
United States1292 Posts
Also a 24 yo who rapes a 14 yo isnt a pedophile, hes a rapist/ephebophile, which doesn't sound good but certainly doesn't raise the same flags that pedophilia does. | ||
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Mauldo
United States750 Posts
It's weird, since people seem to be overreacting to Reddit having jailbait pictures, which are completely different from child porn, but I haven't seen an article from Cooper about 4chan and it's long standing history of being a dump for the worst shit on the internet. Including, of course, child porn. | ||
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Wrath 2.1
Germany880 Posts
also the internet is the internet. I don't think it's specially useful to shut down 1 forum... in the internet. | ||
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Positronic
121 Posts
On September 18 2012 01:53 Batssa wrote: It's a slippery slope deal. It's kinda weird going to a website to read the weeks funny meme threads when that same website also contains an entire community that advocates beating wives and girlfriends. It's kinda weird. I would say it's probably not as black and white as everyone is going to say -- "freedom of speech." This is about how I feel about it, it's really interesting that so many of you find my notion of thinking about some of this material while looking for more innocent information "stupid", lol. | ||
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Kuni
Austria765 Posts
If someone posts pictures of child pornography, then they should be punished mercilessly, but the site itself is not at fault. Remove? yes. Censor the whole site for anything you feel is sick? no. In addition, it's not illegal when someone posts comments about the most disgusting topics you can think of, as long as he follows the privacy rules, leaving out names and such. Some may feel sick looking at a picture of a dead body, but showing it is not a crime. Others may wonder about the intentions of someone posting a picture of a 16 year old (no nudity) and commenting it in a weird or unusual way, but that's not a crime. They can do the fucking same every day when watching TV, because there's teenagers all the time in seemingly sexy outfits everywhere. | ||
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whyyousojelly
Bosnia-Herzegovina46 Posts
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Doomwish
438 Posts
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NotAPro
Canada146 Posts
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Kazeyonoma
United States2912 Posts
sure there's a lot of shit i wish wasn't on reddit, but it's users posting shit, not the admins. kinda weird to attack reddit directly. | ||
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fortheGG
United Kingdom1002 Posts
On September 18 2012 01:51 KwarK wrote: It's a broad means of communication between people and some people are bad. Saying I don't like using the sc2 reddit because of jailbait reddits is like saying I don't like playing computer games online because the internet has child porn on it. They're not endorsing it or encouraging it, the people who are posting about it do that. Go after the people, not the medium. It's probably helpful that they're all posting about it online anyway given the difficulty of staying anonymous on the internet these days. If there is something the medium can do, then going after it should be viable. Example: Google. | ||
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Positronic
121 Posts
On September 18 2012 02:14 Kuni wrote: Next to wikipedia, reddit is the most beautiful site on the internet. It's potential is stunning, it's possibilities amazing and it's effect it can have regarding the voice of individuals is beautiful. It's at the pinnacle of freedom. Everybody can make himself heard on reddit. This was and is never ever the case, when the classic media is in control of content. If someone posts pictures of child pornography, then they should be punished mercilessly, but the site itself is not at fault. In addition, it's not illegal when someone posts comments about the most disgusting topics you can think of, as long as he follows the privacy rules, leaving out names and such. Some may feel sick looking at a picture of a dead body, but showing it is not a crime. Others may wonder about the intentions of someone posting a picture of a 16 year old (no nudity) and commenting it in a weird or unusual way, but that's not a crime. They can do the fucking same every day when watching TV, because there's teenagers all the time in seemingly sexy outfits everywhere. Everyone is aware of the rules and legality of simply posting disgusting pictures, I think my feelings however are more directly related to the consistent news I read of there being specific forums dedicated to letting users masturbate to young boys/girls on a site that has much more innocent content. They can do it while watching TV, but the TV shows a person like that would watch aren't specifically created to allow viewers the ability to jerk off to the kids on them. | ||
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