Cost of doing business to them. Make fines actually hurt and then maybe something will change.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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Oh I'm sorry, which government demanded age checks which made kids give away their data to check their ages? Oh yeah.
As much as I hate Reddit this is just continuation of the UK government steamrolling and destroying the free Internet, ruining the adult experience.
One of the wonders of the Internet was that it was wildly unregulated - if you wanted it and you could disable safesearch you could get it, with the caveat of ISP-enforced content locks on all mobile data subscriptions under the name of a legal child (under 18), workplace and school security and filters, unremovable Safesearch on most search engines etc. Broadband required an adult, who in turn could activate parental controls. I couldnt wait until I turned 18 so I could finally access many sites for porn, news, gaming, forums and anything containing keywords without being blocked. I had a list of proxies for bypassing school filters.
In short there is significant existing protection in place and we know that this is simply more evidence of Orwellian enforcement.
The unregulated internet had literal child porn sites that were available to anyone.
I don't disagree with some of your points but the "wild West" internet shouldn't exist in society.
Well yes, the more CSAM detection and predator hunting, the better. Task forces and, dare I say it, detection programs with algorithms that may or may not include AI learning, are invaluable to eliminating the actually terrible stuff, anything that can't even be educational.
I believe the Online Safety Act and Chat Control's sections that tie every user's real identity to their online actions is not a solution, because when that data gets leaked and/or abused many innocent lives are in danger. I trust the state very little. I trust unidentified malicious hackers even less.
So, the Cyberpolice were never real? 😯
/u/Spez (creator of /r/jailbait) should be in the car next to Andrew and on the gallows next to Trumpstein.
It was created by Violentacrez, not spez.
Prior to late 2012, it was possible to make someone a moderator of a subreddit without their consent, which was sometimes done as a joke or harassment. That's why spez was briefly a moderator of r/jailbait.
I'm not defending the guy but wasn't it that a mod of that subreddit added him as a mod as a joke? I don't think spez created it.
Ironically, Huffman doesn't seem to be in the Epstein files. This isn't because he isn't a pedophile-- he very likely is-- but he simply wasn't important enough of a person for them to invite him or even talk about him.
4chan had approximately 10x the users as reddit did in 2011 when Epstein and Poole connected.
But ya fuck u/spez. Even the biggest losers on earth hate u/spez
/u/Spez (creator of /r/jailbait)
oh 🫣 I've probably heard that before but I must not have committed it to memory
Well that explains why Reddit was so ridiculously pro-porn and porn-riddled in general.
That's cos it's not true. He was a mod of it for a while, but I've not seen any verification of how long that was, and it was at a time when you could just add someone as a mod without them needing to approve it. But he was definitely not its founder.
He did allow it to stick around until the mainstream media started kicking up a fuss about it. That would be bad enough. We don't need to make shit up.
Garbage fine by tyrannical government trying to police what you do online. Stop age verification!
This will surely stop reddit in it's tracks!
Cheering on websites getting fined for the reason of internet censorship. I know Spez is a prick but I don’t want the UK cracking down on internet privacy.
We must protest against the labour party’s corruption.
Better go buy some reddit gold to help them pay their fine!
This seems like one of those cases where you wish both sides could lose. Reddit are up to no good, but lack of identity document demands isn't it.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Not enough. Not nearly.
The article says Reddit isn’t protecting the privacy of children while contradicting itself by saying it needs age verification for this…. in reality this leads to user profiling and data breaches.
https://techlore.tech/the-free-speech-grift-how-politicians-tricked-you-into-demanding-surveillance/
Good. Bury reddit for protecting the pedophiles in the name of corporate greed.