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      The problem with jailbait wasn’t that it was illegal, it was just not a good look for a business trying to court advertising money.

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        Hold up, the problem with jailbait is it was scantily clad little children in sexuality suggestive situations. That was the problem. Whether it was technically legal or not it’s irrelevant, it was intended to sexualized children.

        It’s “not a good look” because it’s abhorrent trash meant to skirt child porn laws. Was it illegal? No. Was it just advertisers who had a problem with it? Also no. Users thought it was abhorrent too. There were user campaigns to ban the sub all the same, who do you think kept notifying the media?

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          It was, but it avoided legal issues by:

          • Reddit didn’t actually host images or videos at the time, just links and comments
          • As I recall, it wasn’t pornography, just pictures of kids in bikinis with creepy comments
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            If he posted images of children, even if not pornographic, it is unlikely he held the copyright for them and, in some jurisdictions might still be considered exploitation. I hope a police investigator at least looks at it.

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            Oh god, i didn’t know what jailbait was and just tried to look it up on Reddit but couldn’t find anything, i thought it was some kind of “bad prank” stuff to bait others into doing illegal stuff…

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              Reddit previously allowed essentially anything that was not either illegal to post or breaking the site by organizing vote manipulation and the like. After getting negative press for subreddits that allowed sexualized (but probably not technically pornographic) images of kids, they banned that kind of content.

              Reddit positioned itself as a neutral platform with as few sitewide rules as it could have prior to that, and many didn’t like what the change signaled even if they found /r/jailbait disgusting.