Child Porn or Free Speech?: Join the Live Chat
A publishing powerhouse has an online portfolio that includes a web site that allows users to post and comment on sexually suggestive pictures of teenagers. The web site is reddit.com and visitors to the open forum can create subcategories on topics of interest. One of which is Jailbait, an online community for people with a common interest in teen girls in suggestive poses. Is it child porn or free speech? We're Keeping Them Honest. Plus, day three in the Michael Jackson death trial. And, final arguments in the Amanda Knox trial in Italy.
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Its absolutely disgusting. 25 year-old men oogling 14 year-olds. The main moderator of that "subreddit" also has another one dedicated to photos leaked from a 14 year-old girl's cellphone. It is beyond disgusting & hopefully Conde Nast will actually pay attention this time and get rid of the offending subreddits.
We like welcome Erin Burnett to show!!! She will be here on Monday afternoon before AC 360!!!!! 🙂 Have nice Erin be here! 🙂
I am really waiting for Monday
I feel cheated as a viewer when you have a guest like Cornell who loses his cool to the point of sputtering, talk too fast for understanding and takes offense to the point of baiting other guests with incendiary statements. Mr Fleischer was right in avoiding direct confrontation. This is not debate, it is offensive to my need for decision making information. I appreciate heating both sides, but please use more rational sources. I like hearing from adults...not arrested opinions.
r/Jailbait is a total violation of the right of teenage girls to dress provocatively and take pictures of themselves in compromising positions without anyone ever seeing it. I'm sure that we can fix this somehow, perhaps requiring all females to wear opaque garments from head to toe with little slits to look out of and making them stay indoors at all times will do the trick.
Thank you, Cornell Belcher, for sticking to your guns in the "discussion" with Ari Fleischer rather than allowing him to get his smarmy last word in. One can only hope that Cain's words were just poorly chosen, but they absolutely were racist. Fleischer's slippery comments remind me of a public figure who "apologizes to anyone who may have been offended." He should have been stepping up to the fact that Cain was offensively generalizing on the basis of race.
National Coffee Day. Had no idea. Whee!!
Dr. Murray sounds alarmingly, sadly inept.
I agree Paula. For a cardiac surgeon, he should have demonstrated much more knowledge re CPR, life saving equipment, etc.
Yet, i saw a segment withsome of his patients who swear by him. They stated he saved their lives and did not charge them if they did not have insurance.
Do doctors ever do surgery in home settings?
Actually, No!!!! They can't have surgery at home!!! This is so impossible at all.
He must have known that Michael had plan to change him as his doctor.
Reddit is a generally good social media site for news and humor. I'm somewhat surprised you have never heard of it. Unfortunately, there's a lot of sophomoric submissions that get up-voted to the front page. That reflects how sophomoric the community is and I have debated whether I should just quit browsing Reddit everyday, because of the immature community.
I have also heard it reported that the Dr. was doing CPR with ONE hand. I have never heard of that. One hand would not provide enough compression to re-start a heart.
Also, CPR is performed on a firm surface like the floor not a soft bed.
It defintely sounds like the doc was trying to get rid of evidence, Reasons either feelings of guilt, or trying to protect MJ's privacy. I think it was guilt.
The type of cathater used can dislodge easily with movement.
Mr. Alvarez was a very credible witness the MJ case. The most minute order of events appear to be very important in this trial.
What kind of doctor was he who does not know CPR. He was Crack Jack doctor.
Gloria,
I agree..... He is so stupid and doesn't know how use CPR!!!!!!!!!! I do know how use CPR!!!!!
Hellooooo everyone and Anderson!!!!
Thanks for coming in for join us tonight! 😀
Sorry to be late join all of you after my dinner!!!! 🙂
I don't know if Herman Cain will win his candidate president as well,
Mr. Murray will be find guilty of murder Michael Jackson...... 🙁
Hello Megan, so good to see your smiley icons again.
Thanks Janis...... That is my favorite smiley!!!!!! 😉
I like the smilely faces too Megan. I just don't know how to use them.
Starr,
Use the symbol you know what to do....... 🙂
Sound like he was cleaning up the crime scene!
I hope there will be justice for Amanda Knox.
In light of the fact that there is no evidence that Amanda K. killed her roomate, i hope she & her boyfriend will be set free.
All reports sound like the original investigation and trial were botched.
If a Jewish person makes comments about Jewish people that is not anymore racist than a Black person making comments about Black people. Cornell tried to compare two different groups talking about each other. In this case Kain is talking about his own group.
More fees......
I know Lori, i can't believe it! Now that most stores are set up for debit cards BOA is going to charge $5 for each debit card purchase?
People get frustrated with me because i still write checks. I simply have rebelled against almost being forced into using my debit card when i don't want to. Still, check cost $19 a box. They get you coming and going.
Guess you can blame the Democrats for putting all those new regulations on the banking industry.
Because they forced these banks to take less money in merchant fees, the loss of that income is simply being made up another way. Democrats might want to think things through the unintended consequences before moving ahead in their zeal to punish banks.
Starr,
Yes. There are true, They also charge more fees as my bank!!!! I am glad I don't have credit card anything else.....
Need to shut them down like Netflex.
Yes more fees and bank CEO Salary will go up also
I think it is important to note that Reddit also does a lot of good. The community frequently gives to, and organizes several charities. This is a wrong, but very small portion of a larger community.
What other voting block votes as monolithically as blacks?
Despite Democrats controlling most of our big cities, and despite the Democrat's Great Society and War on Poverty, blacks are still complaining about the same things they did 40 years ago.
Black poverty, black unemployment, drug abuse, lack of education, unwed teenagers, lack of father's in the home, etc. have all increased despite Democrats controlling those big cities where many blacks live and despite the Great Society of the 1960s. So if things have not improved for many blacks, why do they continue to vote so blindly for Democrats? Could it be the freebies that Democrats promise them to keep them under their thumbs and dependent on the government?
I agree with Cornell
One party brainwashing one group of people unbelievable statement
Maybe it's not brainwashing as much as it's vote buying by keeping many blacks dependent on the government.
After all, Democrats, despite controlling most of our big cities, have done nothing to improve the lives of black people. So why keep voting for them? Why keep voting for the party who makes promises, but doesn't deliver?
I read all your post we have black president, we have many people shining in the sports, education etc you can’t expect change in 40 years after 100 years damage
You have fact in your post but you didn’t analyze why it’s happening
Cain's comment should be discussed within the Black Press.
Cornell saynig that Kain is a racist because of people being brainwashed resonated with Cornell personnally. Cornell took the comment from Kain very personal.
Cornel (sp?) raised a very valid point. Had his comments been directed toward Jewish peoples (for example) the uproar would be unbelievable. Cain's comments suggested that Black Americans are incapable of making informed decisions when it comes to politics. That, is bigotry.
Hello from Canada!
Melissa,
Jewish people don't vote in the overwhelming block for one party as do blacks.
You need to check presidential exit poll data from the Jewish community for the past decade, before making assumptions, like Mr. Cain did.
Volatile–though interesting–discussion, Anderson.
No one would hear a comment like what Cain said - ever. Comments like those are managed internally within the community. Cain isn't in anyone's community.
He's in the American community.
I am sick and tired of hearing about this "community" or that "community".
That kind of talk only promotes more divisivness.
I am no longer a supporter of Cain. Where does he get off tell everybody I'm brain washed into voting Democrat like if I'm some kind of idiot. He's a moron in my book and he and the rest of Republican ideology is why I vote Democrats. And Ari is an even bigger moron for trying to play this down. The only reason why he is playing it down is because the person that said it is a Republican.
If one actually goes to the website they specifically state that the pictures must be of people who are 18 years or older. It looks the desire was to have pictures of maybe 18 year old and 19 year old and not of anything resembling kiddie porn.
I'm loving the argument!
The brain watch statement is not true!
His last name is Cain; what does that tell you?
What does it tell you?
It seems that many on this site are "racist" when it comes to black conservatives.
After all, we know that any conservative who dares to criticize Barack Obama is automatically labeled a "racist" by Democrats and mr. Obama's many cheerleaders in the media.
Good debate
Herman Cain statement was may be childish
Cain gets no votes!
Republicans don't want someone who will change washington – was he serious when he said that!? I don't believe that statement in the context in which it was spoken.
Hello everyone.
I think if an African American says they sense racism, believe them.
Hello, I am a Redditor, and have been for three years. Reddit has categories for everything, it is not promoting jailbait, any more than it promotes white rights, black rights, sexism, anti-sexism, atheist, Christianity, Islam, or anything else. That's the beauty of Reddit: So long as it's legal, you can find it there. But you don't have to, if the thought of 14-year-olds in skimpy clothing makes your stomach churn (as it does mine), don't go looking for /jailbait/, and don't subscribe to it. It's that easy. Kudos to Reddit admins for defending freedom of speech, and I hope sensationalist news reports don't change their minds. As Voltaire said, "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Aiding and abetting the distribution of child pornography is freedom of speech? Give me a break.
A) It isn't child pornography. Yes it is incredibly creepy, but it isn't illegal. B) The only way Reddit "aids and abets" distribution of anything is by proving a means of communication. Would you be upset at the US Postal Service if a group of people had a mailing ring where they exchanged creepy but legal pictures of young women? My guess is no. And though it may be difficult to understand for those that don't use the website, that's really all Reddit itself amounts to.
That's what Craiglist is too – a way to link to other web sites. The line will be crossed someday. People have to make a determination of what's OK in communication technology. Sex sells and Reddit needs to be accountable for what it's offering. Reddit could fall in the dot xxx instead of dot com category and lose a ton of business because of it. IP address suffixs will be changing soon. I wonder if they will have to accept xxx because of one small part of their site?
The thing is Reddit is basically a site of links that goes to other websites and video/photo hosting sites. So if you go after Reddit because a link might take you to child pornography. You also have to go after Google, Bing, and Yahoo for the same thing.
It's clothed photos of teens. Unless we're going to make a law against child beauty pageants as well, it's creepy but legal.
That isn't anything illegal. How is it any worse than "Toddlers in Tiaras"?
I believe that Herman Cain's remark about black people being "brain washed" was at the very least ignorant!
I see Cornell's point – it could be considered racist – however Mr. Cain is black himself, so not sure racism applies.
i agree
Today I spoke to my friend about Herman Cain statement they said they are unhappy and uncomfortable
Black people are not brain watch into thinking Democrat. People vote party according to their belief. Cain should just sit down somewhere because he makes no sense.
It is very odd and unusual for one group such as this to vote so monolithically.
If it's not brainwashing, what else is it?
Democrats certainly have done nothing to improve the lives of black people, so what is the explanation of this tunnel vision loyalty to that party? I know Democrats give them lots of freebies, so maybe it's just a matter of buying votes rather than brainwashing.
You didn’t understand the differences between brainwashed and attraction
It's beyond disturbing to know that a national (international?) media powerhouse like Conde Naste would actually affiliate themselves with such disgusting, nasty filth like that seen on r/jailbait. Absolutely sickening, and glad to know Anderson & CNN have put an uncomfortable spotlight on that questionable website.
I think that if one is honestly committed and truly excited about the direction they are going, they will not run out of steam, for it will be for internal reasons as opposed to external reasons.
Anderson,
Hi! It's great to see you on.
Fascinating discussion on Reddit and free speech.
sounds like a case of "just because it's legal doesn't make it right" – I suppose for every law there is at least one loophole – how does the law think one step ahead of loopholes? Who's job is it to think of solutions that deal with the loopholes?
Good evening every one
Freedom of speech doesn’t have limits so many use as excuse
I agree Vic.
Hi Anderson! Hi Everyone! Good evening!
Evening Anderson & Team 360.
Hello "sound off" friends!
I think readit (website) should step up and discontinue showing pictures of young women. It certainly does not make the website "classy", instead it seems to make more a tabloid.
When it comes to our children safety, there is no freedom of speech!
Well said Gloria!!
So you are saying that some American's deserve more rights than others? Interesting concept..
No, what I am saying is don't put our children at risk for your freedom!
Or should I say at your freedom!
When it comes to America's safety, there should be no freedom of speech!
Good Evening Everyone! Greetings!