EPTMAJOR SOCIAL NETWORK CONTINUES TO HARBOR CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND VOYEURISTIC CONTENT
Reddit.com is a social website that allows its user to share and discuss content such as videos, photos, articles, websites, and so on.
Reddit is massively popular (http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/2-billion-beyond.html), especially with young people (http://en.reddit.com/r/misc/comments/nevz9/results_of_the_reddit_demographics_survey_in_pie/).
Reddit is split into subcommunities known as "subreddits," meaning that while reddit exists as a website, it consists of the sum of its subcommunities. People can subscribe to each community and participate by sharing and commenting.
Unfortunately, the reddit community as a whole also harbors and caters to pedophiles, distributors of child pornography, rapists, peeping Toms, and sex offenders.
Last fall, Anderson Cooper aired a report exposing the child pornography hosted on the site, ultimately leading to the largest subreddit devoted to it being shut down. http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbait
Dozens of subreddits took its place.
Reddit users, as well as people in the media, have criticized Reddit's permissive attitude towards child exploitation. Unfortunately, while admins didn't ban sexualized images of children on paper until last February (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/policy-shift-reddit-bans-child-pornography.html), the rule remains unenforced, indicating that they are more interested in shielding themselves from bad press than protecting innocent kids.
A list of "jailbait" (child porn) forums that are currently on reddit:
girlsinschooluniforms
volleyballgirls
TeenSex
realteens
johnnybait
JailbaitPhotos
Underage
Jail_bait
Jailbaits
NSFW_JAILBAIT_TUBE
PregnantJailbait
PhotoPlunder
FacebookCleavage
japanese_idols
AngieVerona
Some of these forums are hidden and invite only which makes it impossible to know how many actually exist.
The owners of reddit know there is active trading of child porn on their forums and refuse to do anything about it. Any reports are deleted and ignored. Further, Reddit's cofounder simply dismisses the issue and blames the exploited children whose pictures are being traded:
Included in the Anderson Cooper report was the statement by Reddit General Manager
Erik Martin which defends the child pornography remaining on the site: "We’re a free speech site and the cost of that is there’s offensive stuff on there … Once we start taking down some things we find offensive, then we’re no longer a free speech site and no longer a platform for everyone. We’re exerting editorial control and that’s not what we are." http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/policy-shift-reddit-bans-child-pornography.html
The former leader of the child pornography rings, Violentacrez, is often in direct contact with the owners of the site. Erik Martin (aka hueypriest) went so far as to warn Violentacrez before reluctantly making the announcement last February.
http://pastebin.com/eWhyDXCH
(4:03:13 PM) hueypriest: want to give you a heads up
(4:04:00 PM) hueypriest: we're making a policy change regarding jailbait type content.
Don't really have a choice.
Reddit also has subreddits which publish images of women's and underage girls' private areas, including "upskirt" and "downblouse" pictures, without the knowledge or consent of their subjects. The users of these subreddits trade tips on how to stalk and photograph women and minors and encourage each other to go out and take more such pictures.
A list of these forums currently on Reddit include:
CreepShots
Upskirt
Downblouse
yogapants
Voyeur
A majority of these images are of girls in high school classroom settings.
Creepshots' FAQ states: "Creepshots are CANDID. If a person is posing for and/or aware that a picture is being taken, then it ceases to be candid and thus is no longer a creepshot. A creepshot captures the natural, raw sexiness of the subject without their vain attempts at putting on a show for the camera. That is the essence of the creepshot, that is what makes a true creepshot worth the effort and that is why this sub-reddit exists."
One user, called SFJohnny, secretly video tapes himself raping and beating hundreds of women and girls, and shares them on reddit. http://i.imgur.com/1Hkpt.png
Not only is this all of this disgusting, it's illegal as per the Video Voyeurism Act of 2004.
Whoever, in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, has the intent to capture an image of a private area of an individual without their consent, and knowingly does so under circumstances in which the individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Other forums are explicitly devoted to filming sexual assaults and sharing them on reddit as pornography for other users. These include:
RapingWomen
RapingTrannies
StruggleFucking
AbusePorn
BeatingTrannies
BeatingWomen
Sick to your stomach yet? Here's more awful Reddit things:
A pedophile's confession -http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mz0au/iama_man_who_at_24_met_a_14_yr_old_girl_and_lost/
Thousands of rapists being supported by the community -http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/29/rapist-confessions-reddit
A subreddit called "seduction" devoted to teaching men how to rape women
A subreddit called "Incest" devoted to child molestation
A subreddit called "Pics of Dead Kids"
Past media coverage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuMdQRRLoYg
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/reddit-pulls-jailbait-section-after-kid-porn-post-120043
http://www.dailytech.com/Reddit rJailbait Shut Down After User Posts Child Porn/article22992c.htm
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/229048/20111011/reddit-jailbait-shut-down-removed-anderson-cooper-child-pornograpghy-underage-sexually-suggestive-ph.htm
http://gawker.com/5848653/reddits-child-porn-scandal
Also can be found on our Tumblr
WHAT DO WE DO WITH THIS?!
Reddit is the most popular with college aged asshats in the US. Lots o' colleges have a black list for websites that contain child pornography or illegal material. Find as many emails for schools as you can and mass email this sucker out.
Act Local. If you're in America, I bet there's 20 churches near your home. Each church could have around 100 CONCERNED PARENTS that go to PTA meetings and talk to other parents. Send the "Redditbomb" to local politicians and churches. Let them see that their children are using a website that exploits and sexualizes children.
You can send tips to the FBI all day (god knows I do), but I think a grassroots campaign could do wonders.
Do you know how BORING local news is? Can you imagine if your local news could run a "IS YOUR CHILD POSTING IN A PEDOPHILE WEBSITE? STATISTICALLY THERE'S AN 80% CHANCE!" story? Holy shitballs they'd be all over it.
Project PANDA distribution list
Churches, PTAs, Schools
Act Local send it to nearby high schools and churches. If you're in America, there's easily 20 churches near your home. Each church will have 30 to several thousand parents that go to PTA meetings and talk to other parents. Send the it to local politicians schools and churches. Let them see that their children are using a website that exploits and sexualizes children.
Most importantly, Local News
Local News Stations
Your local paper
REDDIT SPONSORS
http://www.mediaplex.com/ (a marketing firm that includes branding with advertising on Reddit)
TV News
ABC
CBS
NBC
CNN
FOX
MSNBC
Al Jazeera
BBC
Newspapers
NY Times, NY Post (love salacious/scandalous shit)
WSJ
LA Times
SF Chronicle, Bee
Washington Post
Indianapolis Star
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Chicago Sun Times
everything at http://www.newslink.org/toptypes.html
everything here: http://www.theopedproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=65
Government Officials
Your Senator
Your Representative
State Legislators
Governor
Bloggers and Political Websites
Political bloggers of all stripes (dKos, Digby, Freep, etc)
Mommybloggers
Matt Drudge will love this shit
Huffington Post
Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show
Rachel Maddow
Cops
FBI
Your local and state police departments
https://report.cybertip.org/index.htm
WELCOME, SRSTERS, TO PEDOGEDDON 3: FUCK EVERYTHING
Reddit.com is a social website that allows its user to share and discuss content such as videos, photos, articles, websites, and so on.
Reddit is massively popular (http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/2-billion-beyond.html), especially with young people (http://en.reddit.com/r/misc/comments/nevz9/results_of_the_reddit_demographics_survey_in_pie/).
Reddit is split into subcommunities known as "subreddits," meaning that while reddit exists as a website, it consists of the sum of its subcommunities. People can subscribe to each community and participate by sharing and commenting.
Unfortunately, the reddit community as a whole also harbors and caters to pedophiles, distributors of child pornography, rapists, peeping Toms, and sex offenders.
Last fall, Anderson Cooper aired a report exposing the child pornography hosted on the site, ultimately leading to the largest subreddit devoted to it being shut down. http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbait
Dozens of subreddits took its place.
Reddit users, as well as people in the media, have criticized Reddit's permissive attitude towards child exploitation. Unfortunately, while admins didn't ban sexualized images of children on paper until last February (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/policy-shift-reddit-bans-child-pornography.html), the rule remains unenforced, indicating that they are more interested in shielding themselves from bad press than protecting innocent kids.
A list of "jailbait" (child porn) forums that are currently on reddit:
girlsinschooluniforms
volleyballgirls
TeenSex
realteens
johnnybait
JailbaitPhotos
Underage
Jail_bait
Jailbaits
NSFW_JAILBAIT_TUBE
PregnantJailbait
PhotoPlunder
FacebookCleavage
japanese_idols
AngieVerona
Some of these forums are hidden and invite only which makes it impossible to know how many actually exist.
The owners of reddit know there is active trading of child porn on their forums and refuse to do anything about it. Any reports are deleted and ignored. Further, Reddit's cofounder simply dismisses the issue and blames the exploited children whose pictures are being traded:
Included in the Anderson Cooper report was the statement by Reddit General Manager
Erik Martin which defends the child pornography remaining on the site: "We’re a free speech site and the cost of that is there’s offensive stuff on there … Once we start taking down some things we find offensive, then we’re no longer a free speech site and no longer a platform for everyone. We’re exerting editorial control and that’s not what we are." http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/policy-shift-reddit-bans-child-pornography.html
The former leader of the child pornography rings, Violentacrez, is often in direct contact with the owners of the site. Erik Martin (aka hueypriest) went so far as to warn Violentacrez before reluctantly making the announcement last February.
http://pastebin.com/eWhyDXCH
(4:03:13 PM) hueypriest: want to give you a heads up
(4:04:00 PM) hueypriest: we're making a policy change regarding jailbait type content.
Don't really have a choice.
Reddit also has subreddits which publish images of women's and underage girls' private areas, including "upskirt" and "downblouse" pictures, without the knowledge or consent of their subjects. The users of these subreddits trade tips on how to stalk and photograph women and minors and encourage each other to go out and take more such pictures.
A list of these forums currently on Reddit include:
CreepShots
Upskirt
Downblouse
yogapants
Voyeur
A majority of these images are of girls in high school classroom settings.
Creepshots' FAQ states: "Creepshots are CANDID. If a person is posing for and/or aware that a picture is being taken, then it ceases to be candid and thus is no longer a creepshot. A creepshot captures the natural, raw sexiness of the subject without their vain attempts at putting on a show for the camera. That is the essence of the creepshot, that is what makes a true creepshot worth the effort and that is why this sub-reddit exists."
One user, called SFJohnny, secretly video tapes himself raping and beating hundreds of women and girls, and shares them on reddit. http://i.imgur.com/1Hkpt.png
Not only is this all of this disgusting, it's illegal as per the Video Voyeurism Act of 2004.
Whoever, in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, has the intent to capture an image of a private area of an individual without their consent, and knowingly does so under circumstances in which the individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Other forums are explicitly devoted to filming sexual assaults and sharing them on reddit as pornography for other users. These include:
RapingWomen
RapingTrannies
StruggleFucking
AbusePorn
BeatingTrannies
BeatingWomen
Sick to your stomach yet? Here's more awful Reddit things:
A pedophile's confession -http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mz0au/iama_man_who_at_24_met_a_14_yr_old_girl_and_lost/
Thousands of rapists being supported by the community -http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/29/rapist-confessions-reddit
A subreddit called "seduction" devoted to teaching men how to rape women
A subreddit called "Incest" devoted to child molestation
A subreddit called "Pics of Dead Kids"
Past media coverage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuMdQRRLoYg
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/reddit-pulls-jailbait-section-after-kid-porn-post-120043
http://www.dailytech.com/Reddit rJailbait Shut Down After User Posts Child Porn/article22992c.htm
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/229048/20111011/reddit-jailbait-shut-down-removed-anderson-cooper-child-pornograpghy-underage-sexually-suggestive-ph.htm
http://gawker.com/5848653/reddits-child-porn-scandal
Also can be found on our Tumblr
WHAT DO WE DO WITH THIS?!
Reddit is the most popular with college aged asshats in the US. Lots o' colleges have a black list for websites that contain child pornography or illegal material. Find as many emails for schools as you can and mass email this sucker out.
Act Local. If you're in America, I bet there's 20 churches near your home. Each church could have around 100 CONCERNED PARENTS that go to PTA meetings and talk to other parents. Send the "Redditbomb" to local politicians and churches. Let them see that their children are using a website that exploits and sexualizes children.
You can send tips to the FBI all day (god knows I do), but I think a grassroots campaign could do wonders.
Do you know how BORING local news is? Can you imagine if your local news could run a "IS YOUR CHILD POSTING IN A PEDOPHILE WEBSITE? STATISTICALLY THERE'S AN 80% CHANCE!" story? Holy shitballs they'd be all over it.
Project PANDA distribution list
Churches, PTAs, Schools
Act Local send it to nearby high schools and churches. If you're in America, there's easily 20 churches near your home. Each church will have 30 to several thousand parents that go to PTA meetings and talk to other parents. Send the it to local politicians schools and churches. Let them see that their children are using a website that exploits and sexualizes children.
Most importantly, Local News
Local News Stations
Your local paper
REDDIT SPONSORS
http://www.mediaplex.com/ (a marketing firm that includes branding with advertising on Reddit)
TV News
ABC
CBS
NBC
CNN
FOX
MSNBC
Al Jazeera
BBC
Newspapers
NY Times, NY Post (love salacious/scandalous shit)
WSJ
LA Times
SF Chronicle, Bee
Washington Post
Indianapolis Star
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Chicago Sun Times
everything at http://www.newslink.org/toptypes.html
everything here: http://www.theopedproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=65
Government Officials
Your Senator
Your Representative
State Legislators
Governor
Bloggers and Political Websites
Political bloggers of all stripes (dKos, Digby, Freep, etc)
Mommybloggers
Matt Drudge will love this shit
Huffington Post
Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show
Rachel Maddow
Cops
FBI
Your local and state police departments
https://report.cybertip.org/index.htm
WELCOME, SRSTERS, TO PEDOGEDDON 3: FUCK EVERYTHING
How does TL feel about this continuous negative coverage coming out about Reddit? I honestly feel a little disgusted every time I visit that site for something completely unrelated like SC2 news, knowing that the website itself harbors so much disgusting material.
