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But they are not hosting them, but only linking to them on other sites (e.g. imgur) which under US law is fine.


I'm not trying to make a legal argument here. It's immoral and I fully support Reddit's decision to do what they want on their own site.

I'm just disgusted at the lengths (awarding/taking away imaginary internet points) people are going to to 'defend their right' to do something which is not even questionable - any sane person would agree in that the content on that subreddit is wrong.


Is it? I thought all the torrent search engine shut-downs, napster and its ilk, etc., had pretty much proven that linking to illegal content hosts was in fact illegal.


They host thumbnails.




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