It was banned because proto-transgender activists from the Something Awful forums saw an opportunity to gain a foothold on a platform they didn't control at the time. It was incredibly brilliant and devious of them because it was purely cynical on their part, but trying to point that out puts you in the position of having to argue against them saying "so wowww you really like pictures of half naked 16 year olds huh".
Yes, well, the alternative is admitting to having a stash of child abuse images. Either because it gets them off watching children being hurt or because it gets them off to use the images to hurt other people. Either way it's profoundly fucked up.
I'm starting to wonder if jailbait was banned because it was attracting too much attention to reddit pedos.
It was banned because proto-transgender activists from the Something Awful forums saw an opportunity to gain a foothold on a platform they didn't control at the time. It was incredibly brilliant and devious of them because it was purely cynical on their part, but trying to point that out puts you in the position of having to argue against them saying "so wowww you really like pictures of half naked 16 year olds huh".
If pictures of half-naked 16 year olds are evil, what does that make the vast supply of CP they have to dump in a subreddit they want to purge?
a conspiracy theory, according to them.
Yes, well, the alternative is admitting to having a stash of child abuse images. Either because it gets them off watching children being hurt or because it gets them off to use the images to hurt other people. Either way it's profoundly fucked up.