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Grendel  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PayPal Cuts Off Reddit Clone Voat Over 'Obscenity'

PayPal sucks - what's new? I'm surprised that the Voat owners didn't expect this to happen. Places that market themselves as free speech havens seem to incur a lot of trouble these days. Voat is a high profile target and the attacks will never stop.





mk  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, they should have expected it. Even so, PayPal might have done them a favor in this case. The owners seem a bit naive about the consequences of hosting child porn, and they are better off pulling that content in response to PayPal before being prosecuted for it.

Grendel  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are they really hosting that kind of content, or is it just a rumour? I ask only because I've often seen people say that about 4chan/8chan, even though both sites comply with the law and remove cp as soon as it's reported.

mk  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't personally see it. But given the subverses they shut down (/v/jailbait, /v/truejailbait) it seems likely that the rumor isn't far off the mark.

Stoffelkeere  ·  3438 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They did. I saw it because I didn't believe it at first, and a misunderstanding of the term jailbait. I wouldn't exactly call it CP. What I saw was a bunch of thumbnails of what looked to be later teenage years half naked selfies, not blatantly preteen child molestation.

That said, I left reddit hoping voat was better. If left because I just couldn't accept visiting a site allowing and defending content like jailbait and animaltortureporn. Hoping this place is better.