Jennifer Lawrence Leaked Nude Photos is one of the biggest scandals that rocked the whole entertainment industry last week. Several celebrities have joined forces and called on the public to stop spreading the images of J-Law and several personalities like Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst who were victimized by a still unknown hacker. Apple has launched a massive investigation on the case but insisted that their iCloud system was not breached.
The photos were first posted on image sharing site 4chan and when news Jennifer Lawrence Leaked Nude Photos broke out, a Reddit page called "r/thefappening" instantly attracted huge amount of traffic on the web. This page is where users share links pictures of celebrities in their most vulnerable moment.
With all the pressure being put on the internet to take down the hacked Jennifer Lawrence photos, Reddit decided to close "r/thefappening" along with other subreddits.
"While current US law does not prohibit linking to stolen materials, we deplore the theft of these images and we do not condone their widespread distribution," Reddit CEO Yishan Wong said in a post entitled "Every Man is Responsible for His Own Soul."
Yishan Wong also insisted that they were not pressured by outside party but they are just showing sympathy.
"Nevertheless, reddit's platform is structurally based on the ability for people to distribute, promote, and highlight textual materials as well as links to images and other media. We understand the harm that misusing our site does to the victims of this theft, and we deeply sympathize. Having said that, we are unlikely to make changes to our existing site content policies in response to this specific event."
Jason Harvey, Reddit systems administrator, further explained their decision involving the Jennifer Lawrence Leaked Nude Photos.
"The situation we had in our hands was the following: These subreddits were of course the focal point for the sharing of these stolen photos," Harvey wrote. "The images which were DMCAd were continually being reposted constantly on the subreddit. We would takedown images (thumbnails) in response to those DMCAs, but it quickly devolved into a game of whack-a-mole. We'd execute a takedown, someone would adjust, reupload, and then repeat. This same practice was occurring with the underage photos, requiring our constant intervention."
"It became obvious that we were either going to have to watch these subreddits constantly, or shut them down. We chose the latter. It's obviously not going to solve the problem entirely, but it will at least mitigate the constant issues we were facing. This was an extreme circumstance, and we used the best judgement we could in response."
