the Reddit admins' bizarre six-year acceptance of child porn on its site is reflective of an overall lax attitude in online geek communities.
You seem to be already convinced child porn was indeed posted and remained on Reddit. Is that really true? Posting a suggestive mainstream picture of Britney Spears when she was seventeen years old, and calling her jailbait, or calling the picture itself child porn, is a criticism of the media establishment itself (or an indictment of the hypocrisy of our times). It's not an indictment that Reddit is trading in Child Porn itself, on the contrary.
If the pictures had really been child porn, the FBI would have been contacted and a very specific process would have been followed. If anything, those pictures were posted and tagged that way because they escaped the official classification of child porn, and yet, some people felt that they were wrong to have even been taken and productized in the first place.
And making all the geeks to be like Richard Stallman is sheer nonsense. By that logic, all republicans must love to have sex with underaged boys because Mark Folley loved underaged boys. And all married republicans, the males anyway, must want open marriages because Newt Gingrich wanted one. If you think about it, the republican party is patriarchal, so it makes complete sense for its male elders to think they're entitled to anything and everything they want. And of course, let's not forget Bill Clinton, an inspiration to all the male democrats, who thought that having sexual relations only meant sexual intercourse (and everything else must be free game and ok with a subordinate if you just label it something else).
And you Bonch, if you want to make a difference, a real difference, go after the places that originally published those pictures in the first place. Right now, you're doing the opposite of Richard Stallman, which in my opinion is just as crazy. You're indicting Reddit for something you call "child porn", and yet, you're censoring the debate by refusing to acknowledge the real producers of that very specific "child porn": the magazines, the parents, the photographers, and the mainstream media that purposefully produced and productized that borderline child pornography in the first place (not to mention the unsupervised teenagers that posted their own suggestive pictures online to productize themselves and/or to attract attention).