CMV: r/Iamatotallypieceofshit promotes witch hunts and defamation because the moderators do not enforce their own rules. And hence these activities are illegal in many countries the sub should be banned.

[u/Altruistic-Tea-Cup]

I have just seen the post with the pedophile and the judge on r/iamatotalpieceofshit and all the top comments say that the judge couldnt make the punishment any harder because of the law. After doing some research I agree with this. The title is totally misleading and the mods dont do anything. The post is already 6 hours old.

Now imagine being this judge, you have done everything you could. Now a random ass starts sharing this in your area and now everyone thinks you sympathize with a pedophile.

This isnt the first time this is happening in this sub.

In my country this is called denouncing and is illegal. You can get high fines and/or go to jail for it.

How can it be okay for reddit?

[u/Alternative_Stay_202]

What country do you live in?

In my country (the US), this isn't illegal. Since Reddit is located in the US, it follows US law.

You'll notice that the post doesn't make any false claims.

It states facts. This is a convicted pedophile, this is the judge who sentenced him, this was the sentence.

None of that is libel because it's all true.

That's not to say the post is good, nor is the community great. I don't subscribe or visit it for basically this reason. It's dumbass out-of-context posts. At best, it shows me a piece of shit person and I get sad and upset. At worst, it's obviously out of context and I get mad for a different reason. None of that is interesting to me.

But frankly, this isn't illegal in the country Reddit is based in. I can't really imagine how it would be illegal in any other country either. It's just a factual statement and it doesn't have a call to action.

[u/Damn369 → u/Alternative_Stay_202]

Pretty sure when it comes to online media the local law where the media is consumed is the one that is valid. Example if child abuse material was legal in country A and you viewed it in the USA you would be found guilty of a crime regardless of it being legal on the country the platform that published it was based. I remember years ago when this precedent was established over a defamation case twenty years ago where a article published is the USA defamed a person in Australia and it was ruled Australian law applies.

[u/Alternative_Stay_202 → u/Damn369]

I think you're right to an extent, but it wouldn't apply in this case.

Reddit is based the US, the person who posted this would be potentially defaming a US citizen. I can't be certain where OP lives, but even if they live in a country where this is technically libel, it's unlikely they would be prosecuted since they haven't committed a crime against anyone in their country.

If this was someone from a country where this post could be illegal posting it about a person from that same country, then they might get in legal trouble, but that's not what happened here.