
hristmas”ĭetective James Morton, who posted the ad, was using the capital letters as a simple code: In pedophile circles, PTHC stands for “pre-teen hardcore.” The ad was an invitation, and Prine took Morton up on his offer. “P.hamily fun serious replies only bama won yes T.erday and kansas state lost don’t forget to H. The flurry of emails began with this message posted to the “Casual Encounters” section of Craigslist: Jurors heard opening statements yesterday in the case of Alan Preston Prine, 60, arrested last November after exchanging more than 200 emails with an undercover officer posing as a 32-year-old housewife offering up her two pre-teen kids for sex. Reddit may be better off without them.A recent undercover sting in Mobile, Ala., provides a window into the secret world of coded language pedophiles use online. But some new Voat users aren't crusaders for global digital patriotism - they're opportunists capitalizing on the site's newfound popularity to share underage pornography. Voat's goal is to protect freedom of speech at all costs and to fight unelected leaders who supposedly abuse their privileges by making rules some people don't like. It also hosts a network of pedophiles and a number of forums that feature suggestive photos of children. NO fat sympathy whatsoever."Ĩchan, a spinoff of 4chan, was the central hub of 2014's controversial Gamergate movement. On 8chan, the only rules about harassing fat people are "1. The Daily Dot reports r/fatpeoplehate fans are now flocking to 8chan, a controversial community devoted to unregulated speech. Voat might already be over: Its servers weren't built to handle this flood of traffic, and it's near-impossible to access. r/creepshots was shut down in 2012, but some spinoff groups are still active on Reddit. One high school substitute teacher in Georgia was fired in 2012 after allegedly uploading a photo he took of a girl in his class. These included upskirt shots in malls and covert cellphone images of students in school. On the late /r/creepshots, users shared real sexualized photos of women and girls taken in public without their permission. "It's seriously messed up, and they should be taken down," one person wrote.Ĭreepshots: Another banned Reddit community is now an active group on Voat. Some redditors are uncomfortable with these groups, or "subverses," as they're called on Voat. This is done to protect Voat legally from Swiss law." "Do not post anyone under the assumed age of 16 fully nude," the sidebar reads. "If they are younger please post them with some key areas covered. And because the site is based in Switzerland, its rules about child porn are more relaxed. Voat now has its own network of jailbait forums. According to Gawker, pedophiles used the forum to connect and privately trade child pornography. The subreddit featured suggestive photos of underage girls, most of which were ripped from their social media pages without permission. Jailbait: In 2011, /r/jailbait, one of Reddit's most popular communities, was shut down. Because the site is based in Switzerland, its rules about child porn are more relaxed. On Voat, some of Reddit's most controversial - and banned - NSFW communities are now thriving. Unregulated discussion and unregulated smut go hand in hand.


Underneath the anti-Reddit rants of Voat's front page lies a steaming heap of porn. "Reddit also has a problem of power hungry 'supermods' who slowly creep on to take control of hundreds of subs, which they then censor. "I think the difference is that Voat itself has no role in censorship, whereas on Reddit we're starting to see Reddit-sponsored censorship," wrote redditor braindeadunit in a thread comparing Reddit to Voat.
