s/jailbait banned for sexualizing minors

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[–]FediNetizen 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

How was that subreddit even a thing in the first place? I thought there was a ban on porn anyways.

[–]cheweh 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

First they came for s/jailbait, and I said How was that subreddit even a thing in the first place?--

Because I thought there was a ban on porn anyways.

[–]FediNetizen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There's a clear moral and legal distinction between sexual content featuring young teenagers and sexual content featuring adults.

[–]cheweh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I want to agree with that and at first glance, yes, given sexual content between disparate groups, there's a line, but at that point we've started with a line between the example groups in the first place.

More than that, pornography was famously said to be difficult to define "but I know it when I see it" by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.

YouTube creators very recently have faced disabled comments and demonitization if YouTube determined that a video was "made for kids" with a list of factors creators should consider which are far from clear-cut.

reddit has banned subreddits for "a violation of Reddit’s content policy against sexual or suggestive content involving minors or someone who appears to be a minor" or similar, while something similar from a popular television show would get a pass elsewhere on the site.

edit: point is, child sexual abuse material and terrorism are where censorship starts. If it proceeds further it's often because the initial lines just... needed clarification... that's basically what reddit has said.