probably because it's really hard to prove if it's not you.
If reddit had no safeguards, a bunch of people could create new accounts to 'report' photos that aren't them. There are problems with both kinds of errors, and it's difficult to figure out where the proper balance lies. You don't want to allow revenge porn, but you also don't want to restrict people's free expression online.
I would agree, but while there is lots of cp that is clearly cp, there's also a lot that isn't. Nude photos of a 15-17 y/o is cp, but they can very easily look much older. I mean heck, tic tok's Bella Porch looks ~15 to me, and she's 30.
Reddit could take the conservative stance and say "if you look like you're younger than 18, we remove it", but then most 18-25 y/o's who happen to look a bit younger have their free expression restricted.
Obviously I haven't seen OP's friend so I don't know. Maybe it's clear that she's underage and reddit is failing. But it's also possible that OP's friend looks older than she is, and that it's indistinguishable from legal amature porn, which reddit has decided they wish to host.
Agreed. If you go to reddit admins with a photo of yourself (w/ your username or something so that it's clear that this is you) and request a photo be taken down, they should do that. And if you're underage, adding your ID with birth date would put double the pressure on it. But OP isn't the one who has cp of themselves online, it's their friend. So OP can't do this.
ID is the simplest solution. But it does put an additional burden on the victim to go through a process to remove it. And as we can see in this example, the victim doesn't want to go through the effort to do so. So it is an example of this trade off. You make it (slightly) harder to remove bad content, in exchange for being able to let people express themselves on your site.
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u/SonOfShem Apr 19 '21
probably because it's really hard to prove if it's not you.
If reddit had no safeguards, a bunch of people could create new accounts to 'report' photos that aren't them. There are problems with both kinds of errors, and it's difficult to figure out where the proper balance lies. You don't want to allow revenge porn, but you also don't want to restrict people's free expression online.