Reddit Provides ‘Safe Haven’ for Child Porn, Lawsuit Claims (1)

April 23, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

Reddit Inc. provides a “safe haven” for child pornography and fails to take adequate steps to block users from posting the illegal material to its community-based social website, one of the most heavily trafficked on the internet, according to an alleged victim who sued the company.

A California woman who claims she was a victim of child pornography and sex trafficking claimed Reddit has “knowingly benefited” from images of underage people posted to the site and has taken “virtually no action” to prevent it, according to a lawsuit she filed Thursday. She seeks to represent all people who were under ...

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