Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company

• drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not to defend it but people have a bit of selective bias here as it was not “very young girls” but <18. Still nasty but it was not out right full pedo shit and more geared to cringe teen culture at the time. Then the subreddit became a big free speech topic and people straight up started posting young teens to really push the topic which proved reddit’s free speech stance wrong and they banned the subreddit.

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  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    proved reddit’s free speech stance wrong

    free speech is never wrong

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      except when it’s sharing harmful content like pedophilia? no?

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      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        expressing an opinion we disapprove of isn’t an exception to free speech: for that we can express our condemnation

        the harm principle requires more than mere offensiveness such as true threat or incitement of imminent, lawless action

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• Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was a subreddit where redditors would post pictures of underage girls. The images weren’t outright pornographic, they were images some of the members took of unsuspecting girls in public or other locations(I remember there was a teacher posting pictures of his students) or images the girls posted themselves on various social media. Some were suggestive some weren’t but all of them were leered over and discussed by creeps with language that should never used towards minors.

  At some point the subreddit came into the attention of Anderson Cooper which run a segment on CNN about it. Even then Reddit refused to ban the subreddit citing “free speech”. Eventually one of the people on the subreddit posted a picture of a minor and said he had naked pictures of her which created a feeding frenzy of creeps asking him for those pictures. This finally made Reddit ban the subreddit.

  The guy that created the subreddit, Violentacrez, was also the “victim” of an expose by Gawker who found out his real life identity. Reddit tried protecting him by banning links to Gawker when the article came out. Before all that Reddit gave him an award and various redditors voted him as the best moderator or some shit like that. Besides /r/jailbait he was running a lot of other questionable subreddits.

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  • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The guy that created the subreddit, Violentacrez, was also the “victim” of an expose by Gawker who found out his real life identity. Reddit tried protecting him by banning links to Gawker when the article came out.

    I remember when this happened. Violentacrez himself showed up in one of the threads that didn’t get nuked and tried to defend himself. I remember his (heavily down-voted) comments all being surrounded by dozens and dozens of [deleted] comments — presumably people attacking him for being a pedo piece of shit.

    I’d never heard of the guy before, but I was so disgusted by the story and by his attempts to justify himself that I went back through weeks of his old posts, down-voting everything.

    The next day, I came back to a week-long temp ban from Reddit for vote manipulation. Fuckers.

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  • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I removed it from the post because allegedly reddit had a feature were you could add anyone to any sub Reddit as moderator and someone added him. Doesn’t change the fact he allowed the sub to exist and didn’t get it banned until news coverage.

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Controversial_Reddit_communiti…

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for the writeup

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  • FridaySteve@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When I encounter teenagers who use reddit I tell them to look up “subreddit of the year 2008” just to gross them out.

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    • StopSpazzing@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Priceless. Doing the lords work

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• gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not saying I agree with it, but this is the actual meaning of the word:

  Spoiler

  The term jailbait existed long before the subreddit and is used to refer to underage girls that are sexually attractive, therefore they are “baiting” you to go to jail by having sex with them.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For some reason I subscribed to your definition IRL, but thought it meant “of age, doesn’t look like it”, which I suppose is how porn sites use it.

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ah ok thanks

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