We would takedown images (thumbnails) in response to those DMCAs, but it quickly devolved into a game of whack-a-mole." Calling the circumstances "extreme," alienth wrote, the "images which were DMCAd were continually being reposted constantly on the subreddit. Some reddit users wondered, why the site banned the photos of the celebrities while not banning others. Its decision to take down the photos was based on existing policies, namely ones that require the site to take down images and content that are against the law and/or violates any of reddits internal rules. In an extensive blog post titled "Time to Talk," a reddit employee identified as "alienth" explained the site's decision to remove the illegally obtained images.Īlienth writes that reddit hasn't changed its policies. Which makes the site's decision to ban the photos of the hacked celebrities all the more noteworthy. Reddit's reputation is similar to that of an online Switzerland - the site's administrators don't often take sides and tend to let the community sort things out for itself. The images were then uploaded to reddit, the popular message board that bills itself as the front page of the Internet. Originally the photos were posted to 4chan, an online bulletin board. As you've heard by now, the online accounts of several A-list female celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and Kirsten Dunst (among many others), were hacked and sexually provocative images of the stars were posted to the Web.
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