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>it is unfortunate that Reddit is cracking down on child pornography.

And that's where a great many people have gotten confused. Child porn was already against the rules and already reported to authorities and the perpetrators banned. That hasn't changed.

What has changed were the subreddits like /r/jailbait - where there was absolutely nothing illegal going on. Creepy and skeevy perhaps, but not illegal.

Let me repeat this again: This is not about child porn.

Comparing the content of /r/jailbait to child porn is akin to comparing the sights of an average day at the beach to the set of a hardcore porno shoot. It's completely bogus.



>Comparing the content of /r/jailbait to child porn is akin to comparing the sights of an average day at the beach to the set of a hardcore porno shoot. It's completely bogus.

This isn't about /r/jailbait. This is about the other subreddits which much worse content e.g. /r/preteen_girls and /r/asianbait.

The content posted to these subreddits was, for the most part, child pornography. The rest was absolutely child erotica. To compare what was posted there to children at the beach is a gross misrepresentation.


>The content posted to these subreddits was, for the most part, child pornography.

Allow me to be blunt: Bullshit.


You never actually looked at any of the subreddits removed, did you?


In passing, anyways. I find the whole child modeling scene and anything around it to be just plain weird on a good day.

I saw plenty of creepy things, but I never saw anything that could be remotely classified as "child pornography".




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