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Although the Supreme Court has declined to speak on the issue, many women are accusing Reddit of profiting from child pornography posted on the site.

From The Christian Post. The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal filed by a group of women suing Reddit and alleging the online platform is profiting from the posting of child pornography, allowing an earlier decision in favor of the popular website to stand.

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In an orders list released Tuesday morning, the nation’s high court refused to grant a writ of certiorari and hear oral arguments in the case of Jane Does 1-6 et al. v. Reddit, Inc. The case centers on whether the social media platform knowingly participated in sex trafficking.

In April 2021, a woman identified as “Jane Doe” filed a class action lawsuit against Reddit after her ex-boyfriend posted sexually explicit images of her from when she was a minor on the platform without her consent.

Although Doe repeatedly reported these posts to Reddit, the website allegedly did little to help take down the images, with her ex-boyfriend continuously reposting them to the platform.

“Because Reddit refused to help, it fell to Jane Doe to monitor no less than 36 subreddits — that she knows of — which Reddit allowed her ex-boyfriend to repeatedly use to repeatedly post child pornography,” read the lawsuit, as reported by Courthouse News Service.

“This is despite the fact that, as Reddit well knew, throughout this time her ex-boyfriend uploaded the content from the identical IP address.”

The district court ruled against the women and their families, arguing that Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, a federal law that protects websites from liability for content users publish on their platforms that might be defamatory, protected Reddit.

Last October, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in favor of Reddit, with Circuit Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. authoring the opinion.

“Moreover, the plaintiffs have not alleged a connection between the child pornography posted on Reddit and the revenue Reddit generates, other than the fact that Reddit makes money from advertising on all popular subreddits,” wrote Smith.

“Plaintiffs who have successfully alleged beneficiary liability for sex trafficking have charged defendants with far more active forms of participation than the plaintiffs allege here.”

Earlier this year, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation placed Reddit on its “Dirty Dozen List” of businesses that profit or enable sexually exploitative practices, arguing that the site is “a hub of image-based sexual abuse, hardcore pornography, prostitution — which very likely includes sex trafficking — and overt cases of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse material.”

While Reddit has been championing a new policy against sharing explicit material like revenge porn and better efforts to remove reported content, NCOSE argues that “these policies on paper are not translating into proactive prevention or removal of abuse in practice.”

In 2021, NCOSE warned that Reddit had become a “hub of exploitation where sex buyers and other sexual predators meet to exchange non-consensually shared intimate images, hardcore pornography, and to give advice to each other about how to use and abuse.”

Reddit isn’t the only social media platform sued over users posting child pornography. Earlier this month, the 9th Circuit dismissed a lawsuit claiming Twitter profited from sex trafficking by allowing tweets containing sexually explicit images of two 13-year-old boys.

The plaintiffs sued Twitter in 2021. One of the plaintiffs said he was recruited for sex trafficking as a minor but escaped from the manipulation. However, the child sexual abuse videos he was featured in were disseminated on Twitter.

His parents reportedly contacted authorities and Twitter to ask that the posts be taken down immediately. The lawsuit contends that Twitter told the family that the material didn’t violate the company’s policies. It wasn’t until law enforcement got involved that Twitter removed the videos, but not before they amassed over 167,000 views and over 2,200 retweets.

The 9th Circuit also cited Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to rule in favor of Twitter.

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(Used with permission. By Michael Gryboski from The Christian Post. Photo Credit: Canva)

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Jennifer
June 3, 2023

It is because the majority of the supreme court is blackmailed, bought and paid for and they do the will of their handlers. They are told to follow a specific narrative or their evil actions will be made public and their families will be threatened or killed. This is how they control all the high-level politicians and government officials around the world.

Susan CC
June 2, 2023

This makes me sick, woe to Reddit. Woe to these unjust justices.

Woe: a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief…distress, misery agony torment anguish

Isaiah 3:9; 5:18,20,21; 10:5

WOE:
to them for they have brought evil on themselves.

to those who drag wickedness with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes…

to those who call evil good and good evil…

TO THOSE WHO ARE WISE IN THEIR OWN OPINION!

TO THOSE ENACTING CROOKED STATUTES AND WRITING OPPRESSIVE LAWS!

Jesus’ Woes Luke 11:37-54

2 Corinithians 7:10 For Godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death.

Dear Heavenly Father, Isaiah spoke Your words of woe to the wicked but nearly 3,000 years later wickedness is still on full display. Your Son speaks words of woe to the legal party of His day but over 2,000 years later, our legal system is still seriously corrupt. I am hoping deep suffering will consume these “justices,” Reddit CEO,Steve Huffman and ALL who ignore the pain and suffering of child sexploitation. I am hoping that You will administer to them the same torment and misery these children are forced to endure. I pray absolute anguish in each of their lives, as they fail to render justice and protection for children. Your Word says Godly sorrow is the first step to Salvation, please Lord, either do what is needed to save these people or remove them. I pray in the Name of Jesus Christ these families will see a victory soon and Reddit and all other social media allowing “this” will fail. You once told me that I cannot ask too much of You but I can expect too little. I pray You will exceed my prayer for Your glory and the good of children. Amen

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