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r/jailbait

Banned · Sexualization of minors

Ban record

Action: banned
Date: October 2011
Reason category: Sexualization of minors
Subscribers: ≈150,000

Suggestive/sexualized images of underage girls

Banned days after a CNN/Anderson Cooper report; a landmark early case.

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The r/jailbait subreddit scandal

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Wikipedia — Controversial Reddit communities
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Vice: Reddit's Jailbait Section is Dead
News2011