they cant pay enough people to shill for them on the site anymore, so they are trying to discredit reddit. they fear the power if we organize. esp our ties to occupy wall street. now if someone brings up reddit seriously a talking head can now dismiss this site as that site that distributes cp. esp with all that double talk that bitch was going on about "straddles the line" and "hiding behind the first amendment"

I have to copy-paste the top comment:

"I wonder what reddit did that's pissing off corporate america. CNN doesn't report military contractors raping underage Iraqi girls. They don't report CPS molesting little girls. They report a group of people using reddit to comment on teenager girls in bikinis to attack reddit."

link

Ron Paul.

And notice, they never actually showed any picture, so nobody watching Cooper had any real idea of what he was talking about, or if his statements were legitimate at all. No evidence was presented.

Mass media is the new religion. Religions require no evidence.

Truer words, my friend. Truer words.

In my best Neo voice... Whoa.

obligatory

That is some Marshall McLuhan shit, sir.

To be fair, if you're calling it child porn, you probably don't want to show it.

convenient

They put themselves in a tough spot, to be fair. You can't lambast someone for "stealing" a pic and posting it, and then show it to 5 million viewers on CNN.

this could be really good for reddit if it gets the people here to realise their is a conspiracy working against the site. So many of them try and shoot down people like us but when it happens to them they might be more sympathetic & inquisitive.

you're just a conspiracy theorist

Good god. She couldn't say "straddle" enough. Who's the fucking perv?

that bitch was going on about

there's really no need for this misogyny

sorry, that fucking cunt

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PATRIARCHY IS KILLING MY BUZZ

edit: using the term is not inherently misogynistic, however, attempting to control others by labeling their (innocuous)speech as hateful is in fact an attempt to control their actions, which can easily be viewed as "matriarchal"(in the light of a feminist attempting control) and thus, against the goal of egalitarianism. your time would better be served combating the use of the term "dick', which is quite misandristic, and very much prevalent.

misandristic is not recognized by my spell check as a legitimate word, MATRIARCHY.

lol

vagina?

Well if you think about it this is a site that has organized protests, outed police brutality every single day, smashed news organizations, supported information leaks, and shit on politicians from every side of the political spectrum for doing the people wrong. This is a site made up of real people who (in between rage comics and cat pics) are standing up for other real people.

This hivemind way of thinking is bringing people up and bringing establishments down even if people don't think they are actively participating in doing so. Thus, a smear campaign from the establishment was in order and the scarlet red letter of 21st century is the accusation of CP. The accusation doesn't even have to be remotely accurate, it's something that American rubes can rally against and it's currently the easiest way to paint an entity in a negative light.

This is a large site that does not jive with the establishment's goals and thus it was smeared. Simple as that.

The accusation doesn't even have to be remotely accurate, it's something that American rubes can rally against and it's currently the easiest way to paint an entity in a negative light.

More importantly, once an entity is successfully smeared with CP in the public mind, nothing they have said or done (past, present and future) is valid. People will always default back to the CP accusation and ignore facts.

This must be squashed immediately.

the above statement can be held in a court of law as an admission of trafficking child pornography.

In what way?

all of them

Well said. How long do you think it will be before they try to get rid of reddit somehow?

'They' won't get rid of it. They'll bye enough shares to control it, appoint moderators and instruct them to ban all unwanted posts.

From what I've seen, this has been happening for quite some time now.

Redditor quote of the day right there. Thank you.

Moderators, put this shit on the front page please.

spread the virus of thought

even if you don't know how to transmit them

you can make them

you can make mayhem

It's part of the slow push to requiring everyone* to use their real identity on the internet because only law breakers have something to hide. This is to protect us from scammers, pirates, pornographers and terrorists.

* state agencies are exempt, of course

I'm going to be the most insensitive asshole for saying this... But I'm not surprised Anderson Cooper is offended by /r/jailbait when he wouldn't know what's appealing about a teen girl.

You're right. As a Vanderbilt, he can't really admit about his sexual orientation.

What irony i see is he used to be on the middle school/high school show Channel 1. His target audience was r/jailbait in the 90s.

There are several former Channel 1 people that are currently on mainsteam news including Lisa Ling. I know there are at least 3 more, but I cannot remember their names as I do not watch mainstream morning news often, only incidentally from time to time.

He is a vanderbilt?

Gloria Vanderbilt is his mother. The Cooper name is of course from his father, Wyatt Emory Cooper.

Jailbait is not child porn.... it is no different than seeing those same underage teens walking down the mall wearing short shorts with slogans like "Juicy" or "Sweet" written across their butts. Te problem is not Reddit but the parents who buy and allow those kids to go out in public dressed like hooker wanna-bes.

Reddit has been showing up at Wall Street... I wonder if this is a purposeful discredit or if Anderson is really that concerned?

Reddit has been showing up at Wall Street... I wonder if this is a purposeful discredit or if Anderson is really that concerned?

Liberal reddit has been showing up at Wall Street.

Conservative reddit is taking over the frontpage in their absence.

Labels.... is anyone really conservative or liberal? Aren't most people liberal on some issues but conservative on others? Really?

Yes.

Language. Words are symbols by which we communicate. I wasn't meaning to label anyone.

we could do more to have an impact on this site, I downvote a lot of the comedy stuff & upvote the political so it gets more exposure. Downvoting the majority gives your upvotes more significance.

It's about mind control. The images in the jailbait site are all images of people wearing clothes. They are not porn. Cooper and his ilk are concerned that someone might get excited looking at them. He is worried about what someone might think, not about the actual images. WTF? Why would he be concerned about what someone else is thinking? Why would he presume that they are thinking naughty thoughts, unless he is thinking naughty thoughts himself?

The Ministry of Love should look into /r/Jailbait. (For those who didn't catch it, that's a reference nineteen eighty four, where the department of thoughtcrime was located)

*Ministry of Love, not Dept. of Love

You're thinking of the Ministry of Love, Miniluv

Yes yes, it's been a while since I read the book. I stand corrected.

Exactly. It always seems to be those who shout loudest against something are the most turned on by it. Look at the family values christian party guy here in New Zealand who got busted for being a kiddy-fiddler.

Show the guy /r/picsofdeadkids and see how he runs with that, as well as GW and nsfw and porn etc....

There are a lot of /r/ that he could raise a stink over - but the accusation of CP is low hanging fruit, which will be used in the future thusly:

"...the hacker had posted to the online forum Reddit.com, which is a popular site among hackers and political activists and has entire forums dedicated to things such as jailbait - pictures of barely dressed teens which site users comment on..."

So they will use the underbelly of reddit to discredit users and the site itself. This is just the begining of the setup.

your reply is the most succinct. it shows the future.

Man, you hit the nail on the head!

I live in Southern California and when i am forced to shop at a mall, me the SF hippie,leave shocked.Why do parents let their 10 year old daughters walk around in clothes that even a hooker wouldn't wear. The amazing part is that if you say anything....get ready for this...YOU ARE the PERVERT!

Many people can appreciate the beauty of youth.... that doesn't mean that all those who do are sexually aroused by it. I appreciate the beauty of the Mona Lisa but I'm not sexually aroused by it.

interesting point

It is not that I don't see the beauty, in fact, I love to watch mother nature bait her traps for young men... with women; and their endless forms of beauty. To place body issues on a ten year old girl, and all the fears it creates, is sad. Can't the advertisers just let them be children?

If young women's photos didn't sell, they would stop using them. The blame goes to mothers wanting their little children to be "stars" and "glamorous fashion models.... Barbies before their times... or who do not stop the children from responding to the role models on tv... to blame Reddit for jailbait when every magazine, tv show and other media does the same thing is silly.

I dont see the issue. Surely a naked 10 year old is something that is ok too? I think we all need to relax a bit.

All those Occupy Wall Street headlines on the front page might have upset the Powers That Be after they went through all that trouble to orchestrate a media blackout.

I think reddit's corporate masters would be upset except that this will probably cause a traffic spike and many new /r/jailbait subscribers.

Slow news day... or smokescreen to hide actual news happening... anyone heard more about the Alaskan rocket test or the Denver VIP meet?

Most likely the attack is intended towards Conde Nast itself; maybe someone forgot to give some courtesy or refused to help with something or intends to publish something CNN's owners didn't like. A first shot against a relatively popular but still minor organ of the Nast media conglomerate could be interpreted as a nice warning.

Reddit is no longer owned by Conde Nast.

That's what they want you to think! You need to out-think the facts you moron!

Because underage nude photos are the best thing ever!!! Only evil corporate entities that have members that donate to campaigns and vote are evil.

BTW, I'd rather /r/jailbait was left on 4chan

I agree with you and cant belive the reddit majority are sticking up for what is essentialy the sexualisation of children...

It's because they are 14. I'm guessing you are not 14?

How stupid are you? Photos (non-nude BTW!!!) are obviously just a pretext to kill the freedom of speech.

do I really have to put /sarc on here?

How stupid are you?

Oddly, slightly smarter than some.

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If your going to tell the truth, at least provide a link to the documentary...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3395321338401208062

The torrent sites have this as well...

I think there's something more to it. The whole child porn charge is just a blind. This is someone big at CNN deciding to go after Reddit, for some reason. Maybe it's a general push to smother alternative news sites, and quell free speech. The two yes-women who agreed with everything Cooper said seemed to be reciting from a script they had memorized. What hypocrites! I see this as an attack on free speech -- it's got nothing at all to do with porn. As usual, porn is just being used to stir up the emotions of the sleeping masses who listen to Mr. Vanderbilt stutter through his little show.

Child porn is the simplest and easiest tool to use in a smear campaign.

You don't even have to provide proof, you just have to draw a vague link between CP and the target and let people's imaginations conjure up the worst scenarios imaginable.

Anderson was ADVERTISING.

I think so too, he was giving reddit the exposure it needs to become a bigger shit hole.

The more media coverage this website gets the more quality deteriorates

He couldn't have done a nicer thing for r/jailbait's subscription count.

almost 13 thousand unique vists on that day

This is such a non-issue. If teens post suggestive pictures of themselves on the Internet who's to blame? Facebook, Reddit... I don't approve of this material but shit like that is part of the Internet and no one is forcing you to look at it. And how about the fucking parents who don't explain to their kids the possible issues and dangers of doing such a thing. In the end this is more distraction and noise coming from the corporations to distract the people from the real issues such as the complete failure and collapse of the capitalist system...

/r/jailbait is gross.

indeed, take it down, ban the topic...

pedophiles don't have rights...

it's like giving the establishment a club to beat reddit with...

Browsing r/jailbait does not a kiddiefucker make, you troglodyte. And everyone has rights, even people you don't like very much. Deal with it.

Especially kids who shouldnt be victimized.

Pffffft...

-Reddit powers activate-

Form a campaign to smear Anderson Cooper in the public domain with factual information about his life and work.

The Internet ended Glen Beck, it can end Anderson Cooper.

He is a Vanderbilt... That says it all...

I think it's just a matter of time before some of these subreddits are brought into a more mainstream attention. There are some pretty weird/creepy things in here. I'm glad I can chose not to have them on my frontpage, but I'm sure there are plenty of folks that spend all day in their underwear hitting F5. :C~~~~~ BARF

EDIT - I did just hear that they talked to the same guy about FREE PIZZA and lauded how wonderful Reddit was. Interesting. One thing likely lead to the next in the "research." Meaning: "When I'm done with this eating this pizza in my undies and hitting F5, I need to come up with another story ASAP!!"

The word "research" has ceased to have all meaning for anyone who calls themself a journalist these days (if ever..)

The word journalist ceased to have any meaning years ago.

Many of us had made this point before, that Reddit was going to be slurred by the "taint" of /r/jailbait and other similar subreddits, and that Conde Nast would likely suffer by association.

Everyone that bleats on about the legality of /r/jailbait fails to miss the point that just because something is legal doesn't mean it isn't fairly unpleasant (eg coprophagia) and even hugely unethical. Also, at the end of the day who verifies that all those pictures are over 18? And do they have the permission of their subjects to be posted in what is clearly a masturbatory/pornographic context?

Whether they are easily accessible elsewhere is besides the point. They are collated here, or links to them are, and that affects the perception of the whole community.

I agree wholeheartedly. It's pretty much the same as having a subreddit about drowning puppies. It's their legal right, but the people who would have interest in that are basically forcing us all into an awkward "guilt by association" issue when we search the keyword "puppies."

Intentionally drowning puppies is hardly legal in the US and many other countries. Don't you remember that video of the girl throwing the puppies into the water? Reddit helped track her down and get arrested in some former Soviet bloc country.

Kindly don't lump those who enjoy looking at 15 year-olds in bikinis in with puppy killers. There is nothing legal about killing puppies. Moreso, if you think checking out the odd highschooler here and there is in any way on the same level of moral awfulness as murdering puppies...wow.

Not comparing them by any means, simply saying, as you pointed out yourself... if I want to search for "college/teen" adult material online, I certainly don't appreciate suddenly finding a link to a 10 year old in a swimsuit.

reddit is owned by the conglomerate that owns vanity fair he said. maybe it has something to do with that. maybe reddit will be put up for sale. maybe we could buy it and make it reader owned?

They made a buck somehow. CNN...er...Time Warner...had to know the mere mention of teenage poon would drive their salacious (kidnappin', OJ, Casey Anthony-loving ) viewers to Reddit en masse, to judge for themselves, the veracity of the very possibility of said poon.

That would make Anderson Cooper a poon salesman. Pimp, if you will.

"Time Warner is the largest media conglomerate in the world, with holdings including: CNN, the CW (a joint venture with CBS), HBO, Cinemax, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT, America Online, MapQuest, Moviefone, Warner Bros. Pictures, Castle Rock and New Line Cinema, and more than 150 magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Marie Claire and People."--Indymedia

Anderson Cooper interned with the CIA. When you work for the agency, you have no agency.

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It may not matter. To be child porn it has to be sexually suggestive (or an actual sexual act.) A photo of a topless young girl is not necessarily child porn.

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If the FBI cared about /r/jailbait it would have been shuttered long ago, and violentacrez sent to GB. It's not child porn, and no DA would suggest it is. There are plenty of real child porn rings, and the FBI is constantly trying to get into the church to find them.

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Well, you can read the law for yourself.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_18_00002256----000-.html

If you're too lazy, the key is:

in that the depiction is such that an ordinary person viewing the depiction would conclude that the depiction is of an actual minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

An ordinary person will not be aroused seeing a young topless girl holding a stuffed animal, for example. Only a perv would.

Cooper only browses /r/malebait.

NWO morons are terrified of reddit, and the internet in general.

So a supposed group of the most powerful people in the world are afraid of a website?

that's the beauty of our current situation. they're stuck where they are. they're already exposing themselves trying to shut down the internet.

So a group that you think controls all the military, power & political swagger is "stuck" because of a nerd forum? That doesn't sound very powerful at all. I do not buy either of those ideas.

that's the world you live in.

If you really want to discredit anyone or anything first step is to accuse them of sex-crimes. Julian Assange is the perfect example... next up "oh, your a redditor? PERVERT!!!!"

Reddit is a bit too much of a common grounds area, a free-wheeling kind of place where people can share ideas, links etc... and that makes it a target for people who hate free speech and liberty.

I dont go to every subreddit, nor do I want to. Even here on conspiracy there are some wing-nut theories, but I have also got thinking about a lot of things... and the fact i got thinking is the reason so many do not like this place.

Beware any man who would deny you information, for in their heart they wish to be your master.. :)

I accuse Anderson Cooper of farting at the end of [this video].(http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/?/collection/MICHAEL_JACKSON_DEATH_TRIAL&hpt=hp_t2)

Here's a synopsis of the interview

Methinks the reddit perv brigade doth protest too much. So Anderson Cooper's using a very "inclusive" definition of child pornography. Perhaps some of the /r/jailbait pedophiles, sorry pedants, prefer the term "underage erotica"? What he's saying is broadly correct, though, because there's some very dubious content in that sub-reddit.

Doesn't he realize that bad press is good press. I wonder how many more viewers r/jailbait received after this. Brilliant media..once again.

Jailbiat at one time was run by different mods that had a clear set of rules and would remove posts that broke them. It was shut down & banned a few months ago (Early May I think) and then was re-opened between a few weeks to a month later with a different group of admin's / mods. And now a few months after it was reopend, with new mods, it's on Anderson Coopers show used to paint the site in a bad light which I find rather interesting (almost like it was planned since it closed an was reopened with new admin/mods)

I know this because there was a thread in r/circlejerk that discussed this happening and how it transpired. One of the original mods was posting in the r/circlejerk thread. The person comes staright out and says something along the lines of "I was a mod of this r/subreddit until it was banned today, this is what happened and this is how we have been conducting ourselves" (forget his handle but I think it was lordvobus {sp?})

I'm surprised the fact it was banned at one point about 2 months ago has not been mentioned yet since this is r/conspiracy (should be able to search reddit for the relevant threads refering to the sub reddit being banned/unbanned)

Someone should introduce him to 4chan, and see what he thinks of reddit then.

How would you feel if you saw a picture of your daughter on r/jailbait?

Why isn't that idiot reporting on the Wall St protesters instead of moaning about reddit?

You're paranoid.

Perceived pedophiles are great fodder for news outlets. Anderson gets more viewers when sex and children are mentioned.

He's also counting on your response to this to drive his hits up. If it's popular topic in terms of number of viewers, he will use reddit for hits again.

Enjoy feeding his family.

You have no argument, and did not refute my point.

So Cooper is the first pawn in the onslaught of anti-reddit activity that is designed to undermine the community and destroy it because governments are terrified of the wrong threads getting a thousand or so upvotes?

Alright.

That's what they want you to think! You need to out-think the facts you moron!

'They' won't get rid of it. They'll bye enough shares to control it, appoint moderators and instruct them to ban all unwanted posts.

gud 1

lol

vagina?

You have no argument, and did not refute my point.

do I really have to put /sarc on here?

How stupid are you?

Oddly, slightly smarter than some.