The other day, us SRS mods received this album of images: http://imgur.com/a/airxs

Around New Years, a user reported a link to child porn in the sidebar of the TOR sub r/onions, and was ignored. Finally, after weeks of pleading, the admins respond, only to claim that there is no child porn at that link even though the user has provided proof that there is.

The site hosting the child porn is part of the deep web, and explicitly advertises the images on their front page. [SFW screenshots of their directory that /r/onions directly links to: http://i.imgur.com/evYVj23.png http://i.imgur.com/Z8KYjHE.png ]

I just checked and r/onions is still linking to this shit.

Unfortunately for everyone, this non-response by Reddit admins isn't a new thing. After our second Reddit Bomb almost exactly two years ago, the admins wanted to look like they were doing something. So they said they were not only banning child porn, but you could also report additional links to child porn directly to them so they could delete it.

Choice excepts from their concession:

"We have taken all reports of illegal content seriously"

"If you find specific content that meets this definition please message the moderators of the subreddit, and the admins."

I quickly learned that the admins had no plans to actually follow through with this. One time I reported a creepshot of a freshman in highschool, where you could clearly see her school's name and it was in a locker room. No response. I've heard from other users with similar experiences.

Reddit's founder Alexis Ohanian even went so far to say publicly that no child porn was ever on Reddit. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSMwX6C6_7Y Skip to 59:44) Well, that's not exactly what he said. He says Reddit has never hosted child pornography. Just linked to it. And hosted the thumbnails. You're morally spotless as long as you don't host the full images on your website.

If you have any other stories about similar experiences of admins ignoring child porn reports, or actual child porn subs or submissions, let me know. We're putting together a thing.