Seems like this is doing the rounds today. Holy crap, I knew reddit was bad, but this is horrible:

reddit [http://www.reddit.com/] is a social website that allows its users to share links to content on the internet and post comments about the links. This enables not only the sharing of content (photographs, videos, websites, and so on) but also the discussion of said content.

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 as the sum of its subcommunities that people can subscribe to and participate in by means of sharing and commenting as aforementioned.

Unfortunately, the reddit community as a whole also harbors pedophiles and distributors of child pornography, including a man who goes by the name Tessorro [http://www.reddit.com/user/tessorro] and runs a subreddit called "preteen_girls"[http://www.reddit.com/r/preteen_girls/comments/pju8h/my_daughter_is_going_through_a_weird_phase_can/c3pxuv8]

The main purveyor of child porn on reddit is Violentacrez, who was the former leader of the "jailbait" subreddit, before Anderson Cooper's report [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuMdQRRLoYg&feature=related] got it shut down: [http://www.reddit.com/user/violentacrez]

A list of Jailbait (underage porn) forums which have sprung up to replace it that are currently on reddit:
truejailbait
gaolbait
GirlsinSchoolUniforms
LegalTeens
niggerjailbait
Thenewjailbait
RealGirls
trapbait

/r/jailbait is shut down now, but the traffic statistics [http://i.imgur.com/jvNpg.png] posted by Violentacrez [http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/kzlga/traffic_statistics_for_rjailbait/] from its heydays are interesting. The dip in mid August is when admins temporarily closed the subreddit, and the spike on September 30th is when Anderson Cooper talked about it. The numbers after the temporary shut down are abnormally low, as would be expected. But prior to that, they were getting about 30,000 unique visitors each day.

When r/jailbait was open, it had a message on the sidebar asking young girls to submit pics to their jailbait gone wild subreddit, which still exists, and even wants these 'jailbait' girls to get verified before submitting photos. You're also told to "Be respectful. Don't insult the ones brave enough to submit photos / videos".

The owners of reddit know there is active trading of child porn on their forums, and refuse to do anything about it. Further, Reddit's cofounder simply dismisses the issue and blames the exploited children whose pictures are being traded: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXZYvrue1BE]

The inaction of reddit's administrators has been a frequent topic, part of that being Violentacrez's shockingly close relationship with them.
Violentacrez's Twitter account [https://twitter.com/#!/violentacrez] seems like a good example of this.
Krispykrackers [http://twitter.com/krispykrackers] (head of advertising and the community helpline at reddit)
Hueypriest https://twitter.com/#!/hueypriest] (reddit's general manager) and
Chromakode [https://twitter.com/#!/chromakode] (developer) all follow violentacrez.
So does Jedberg [https://twitter.com/#!/jedberg] (former administrator),
KeyserSosa [https://twitter.com/#!/KeyserSosa] (former lead developer) and
MikeSchiraldi [https://twitter.com/#!/MikeSchiraldiraldi] (another former developer type).

If you view their past tweets, you'll see that Violentacrez has regularly been in direct, public contact with them.

In 2008, r/jailbait received the most votes in reddit's "Best Community" contest [http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/7okgl/reddit_awards_best_reddit_of_2008_comment_here_w/], with SuicideWatch taking a distant second, receiving about half as many votes.

Another interesting fact is that Violentacrez has the third highest amount of karma [http://www.karmawhores.net/violentacrez] on all of reddit for submitted links. Reddit can't get enough of the guy.

Are you sick to your stomach yet? The list of child pornography subreddits continues: (all subreddits listed below are not safe for viewing)

"Preteen Girls"
"Male Jailbait"
"Jailbait Junkies"
"Asian Jailbait"
"Young Porn"

Other awful Reddit things:

A Pedophile's Confession
A subreddit called "Raping Women"
"Beating Women"
A subreddit called "Lolicon" (cartoon drawings of naked children)[/url]
A subreddit called "Pics of Dead Kids"

This is fucking disgusting, and people need to scream this from the rooftops until either reddit sorts itself out, or is a smoldering crater.

and none of that is remotely illegal. gross, tactless and in poor taste yes, but its far from illegal. that and i have no way to trust you since you failed to source your info and posted an excerpt without posting the site.

Well this is the Escapist, with threads demanding the end of a law against bestiality. Not sure you're going to get a lot of people supporting you. I think it's disgusting and want these folk in jail.

keiskay:
and none of that is remotely illegal. gross, tactless and in poor taste yes, but its far from illegal. that and i have no way to trust you since you failed to source your info and posted an excerpt without posting the site.

I'm pretty sure it's not allowed on these forums to actually link to child pornography, FYI.

Elcarsh:

keiskay:
and none of that is remotely illegal. gross, tactless and in poor taste yes, but its far from illegal. that and i have no way to trust you since you failed to source your info and posted an excerpt without posting the site.

I'm pretty sure it's not allowed on these forums to actually link to child pornography, FYI.

im talking about were he got his excerpt not linking to child pornography. right now all we have is an article with no link to its source.

I knew Reddit was an utter shithole, but I didn't know it was quite that bad.

keiskay:
and none of that is remotely illegal. gross, tactless and in poor taste yes, but its far from illegal. that and i have no way to trust you since you failed to source your info and posted an excerpt without posting the site.

Actually child porn is very illegal (as it features children in sexual situations under the age of consent) and the beating and rape ones can get in trouble if they can't prove it was consensual.

A subreddit called "Lolicon" (cartoon drawings of naked children)

Seriously, you're going to put THAT on the same list as woman beating and dead kids? Yeesh, some people forget why child pornography is even bad in the first place.

That said, yeah, welcome to the internet. It's definitely bad stuff, but it's not even remotely illegal.

Lilani:

keiskay:
and none of that is remotely illegal. gross, tactless and in poor taste yes, but its far from illegal. that and i have no way to trust you since you failed to source your info and posted an excerpt without posting the site.

Actually child porn is very illegal (as it features children in sexual situations under the age of consent) and the beating and rape ones can get in trouble if they can't prove it was consensual.

okay yes child porn is illegal in most countries. but jail bait is not the same as child porn, jailbait is basically a picture of a young girl that people find attractive and would like to do sexual things to but cant. hence the term jail bait. lolicon is drawings of underaged children, this one is in a bizarre area since its not real children and it does not usually contain drawn real children, some people feel it should be illegal others see it as artistic expression (there is also bizarrely legitimacy to both claims, IE:the movie pretty baby and the nude photo shoots of the under aged actor are considered art and are legal to posses).

You do realize reddit hosts no actual content, and is just a series of links. If there's something illegal or immoral on there, it has a non-reddit source that's out of line. And if child porn reddits are like minecraft reddits, its probably imgur.

CaptainKarma:
A list of Jailbait (underage porn) forums which have sprung up to replace it that are currently on reddit:
truejailbait
gaolbait
GirlsinSchoolUniforms
LegalTeens
niggerjailbait
Thenewjailbait
RealGirls
trapbait

One of those things sounds like it probably isn't illegal.

As to the others, it depends. AFAIK, it's not generally illegal to put pics of, say "girls in school uniforms" up, if there isn't any sexual content.

If people were to download them because they find them attractive, again, still generally not illegal.

Without investigating this further (which I lean towards not doing, for obvious reasons), can't say that there's anything illegal wrong, as opposed to fucked up wrong.

To be honest, I place Reddit in the same place that I place Twitter, Facebook, and other user-submitted-content sites: sites who's sole purpose is to suck away time from otherwise productive members of society.

Ok, that's nice but if it's just general pictures of little girls, it's not illegal (provided they are not depicted in a sexual manner) and as I don't know what sort of pictures they have on there, nor am I going to go investigate (as my proxy is on my computer which as decided to stop working for the time being), I'm going to say this likely being overblown.

That said, this is a victory for 4chan, because atleast they're proactive and delete threads and ban anyone who posts them or in them. 4chan > Reddit

GrimTuesday:
That said, this is a victory for 4chan, because atleast they're proactive and delete threads and ban anyone who posts them or in them. 4chan > Reddit

...Do we visit the same site? O.o The mods will take down the egregiously nude kiddie threads, but jailbait, lolicon, and the rest seems fairly well tolerated.

The Gentleman:
To be honest, I place Reddit in the same place that I place Twitter, Facebook, and other user-submitted-content sites: sites who's sole purpose is to suck away time from otherwise productive members of society.

Productive members of society like child porn distributors? ...Wat?

SmashLovesTitanQuest:

The Gentleman:
To be honest, I place Reddit in the same place that I place Twitter, Facebook, and other user-submitted-content sites: sites who's sole purpose is to suck away time from otherwise productive members of society.

Productive members of society like child porn distributors? ...Wat?

The porn's not the problem that I'm referring to; it's the rest of the threads, tweets, links, gifs, pictures, etc.

I mean seriously, there is an entire subforum for rage-face pics. At a certain point, you become like me, essentially picking one random social site where I can remain anonymous and avoiding all the rest so I can actually get some work done.

Are we all getting stupider?

They should use networks like TOR and keep their stuff there, not on the open web. It's like begging to be caught by the authorities.

It doesn't sound like any of the pictures are actually porn. Sounds like just teenagers in bikinis and such from what I've found about it.

evilneko:
It doesn't sound like any of the pictures are actually porn. Sounds like just teenagers in bikinis and such from what I've found about it.

It's grown men exchaning pictures of underage girls for titilation. That's on TOP of the actual, honest to god child porn on there (which I wont be linking). The mods are in position to do something about it, and they don't.

Amusing how they say "Child pornography is wrong" and then tell you where to find it...

OT: That's sick, but someone really should be more active in removing content like that.

You got trolled hard/are trolling...the OP is word for word from the something awful forums (the site that spawned 4chan, an idea of how reliable it is).

I'd say the subreddits are a problem but aren't really doing anything illegal. I wouldn't like them to be there, but as long as they're removing any actual child porn that is posted as swiftly as possible, then it should be treated as any other internet site with user-generated content is.

Sheeeeit, what am I still doing here?

CAPTAIN HERO, AWAY!

I knew I could use that joke somewhere.

Rkiver:
http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/pmj7f/a_necessary_change_in_policy/

Ask and you shall receive. Well, not so much as burning reddit down. But it's dealt with.

Excellent. Now, if you could get rid of the other disturbing source of the sexualization of children: TLC.

Rkiver:
http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/pmj7f/a_necessary_change_in_policy/

Ask and you shall receive. Well, not so much as burning reddit down. But it's dealt with.

Wooh, happy ending. Thread is kinda pointless now. Didnt expect that to happen so fast.

CaptainKarma:
Other awful Reddit things:
A subreddit called "Raping Women"
"Beating Women"

Oh great, another crusader who believes that any kinky person who has a fantasy remotely resembling rape, is a pervert.

So, do you also think all homosexuals should be hung, that all Jews are thieves and that all black people are unemployed, or do your prejudices limit themselves to the bdsm community?

In the meantime, quite a lot of porn actors love to do films that are more extreme like that, as a shoot for that can get ten, twenty times the amount of money they would get for regular porn movies.

Blablahb:

CaptainKarma:
Other awful Reddit things:
A subreddit called "Raping Women"
"Beating Women"

Oh great, another crusader who believes that any kinky person who has a fantasy remotely resembling rape, is a pervert.

So, do you also think all homosexuals should be hung, that all Jews are thieves and that all black people are unemployed, or do your prejudices limit themselves to the bdsm community?

In the meantime, quite a lot of porn actors love to do films that are more extreme like that, as a shoot for that can get ten, twenty times the amount of money they would get for regular porn movies.

Are you kidding me? I have no problem with bdsm, but any bdsm community worth its salt is very careful about things like safety, consent and all that. What they do not do is sit around fantasising about beating women up. You are literally defending rape.

Which ignores the bigger issue: reddit enables the trading of child porn. They've repeatedly left CP up even after it was reported.

Nikolaz72:
Not to defend Lolicon but, yea. To defend Lolicon.

The reason Child Pornography is illigal is not because its immoral or taboo but because legally they cannot give consent. Drawn child pornography does not really involve consent at all and is therefor not illigal. -Ugh- but I do feel a little dirty for even having to write that post.

I usaully hesitate to touch this topic with a 50 foot pole but yeah this quote above. No matter how disgusting people find it, it's not the same as child porn.
Not sure whether it is still illegal or not.

CaptainKarma:
Are you kidding me? I have no problem with bdsm, but any bdsm community worth its salt is very careful about things like safety, consent and all that. What they do not do is sit around fantasising about beating women up.

Yes they do, actually. In forms quite more painfull than a punch in the face actually. But that doesn't mean it will ever become a reality in the same form.

If you can't make that distinction you've got a serious problem.

Oh, and if you want to know how, allow me to recommand a small documentary named Graphic Sexual Horror? I'd warn for explicit content though. It's about a website who became leader of the market, and then got taken down by the FBI on fake charges because they violate Christian taboos.

CaptainKarma:
You are literally defending rape.

First beating, now rape, you have anything else to bring to the table besides of name-calling?

Blablahb:

CaptainKarma:
Are you kidding me? I have no problem with bdsm, but any bdsm community worth its salt is very careful about things like safety, consent and all that. What they do not do is sit around fantasising about beating women up.

Yes they do, actually. In forms quite more painfull than a punch in the face actually. But that doesn't mean it will ever become a reality in the same form.

If you can't make that distinction you've got a serious problem.

Oh, and if you want to know how, allow me to recommand a small documentary named Graphic Sexual Horror? I'd warn for explicit content though. It's about a website who became leader of the market, and then got taken down by the FBI on fake charges because they violate Christian taboos.

CaptainKarma:
You are literally defending rape.

First beating, now rape, you have anything else to bring to the table besides of name-calling?

Hey yo, you don't actually have any idea about the content of those subreddits, but somehow assume they are BDSM communities when in fact they (unironically, literally) discuss beating and raping women.

But keep right on tiltin'.

PiCroft:
Hey yo, you don't actually have any idea about the content of those subreddits, but somehow assume they are BDSM communities when in fact they (unironically, literally) discuss beating and raping women.
But keep right on tiltin'.

Not relevant. What is relevant is that someone reasons that any act that could be qualified as such is thus perverted, kind of like anyone not praying exactly like they should is a heathen and should be burned at the stake.

Blablahb:

PiCroft:
Hey yo, you don't actually have any idea about the content of those subreddits, but somehow assume they are BDSM communities when in fact they (unironically, literally) discuss beating and raping women.
But keep right on tiltin'.

Not relevant. What is relevant is that someone reasons that any act that could be qualified as such is thus perverted, kind of like anyone not praying exactly like they should is a heathen and should be burned at the stake.

You are correct, being sickened by people glorifying and making light of raping and beating women is exactly the same as burning people of a different faith to you at the stake.

Get some perspective.