Manipulated by predators, sold for sex: 12 survivors of online sexual exploitation denied justice
3. Does 1-6 v. Reddit, Inc. (9th Cir. 2022)
A woman identified under the pseudonym Jane Doe discovered at 16 years old that her ex-boyfriend had posted sexually explicit images and videos of her on Reddit, all without her consent. She reported the content to Reddit, but it remained on the website for days.
Not long after Reddit finally removed the content, it appeared on the website again, a pattern that repeated itself each time Jane Doe reported the material. Even though Jane Doe managed to get her ex-boyfriend's account banned, he just made another one and continued to post the sex abuse material again and again.
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In 2021, Doe sued Reddit, arguing that "Reddit knowingly benefits from lax enforcement of its content polices, including for child pornography."
"Because Reddit refused to help, it fell to Jane Doe to monitor no less than 36 subreddits — that she knows of — which Reddit allowed her ex-boyfriend to repeatedly use to repeatedly post child pornography," the complaint reads.
"Reddit's refusal to act has meant that for the past several years Jane Doe has been forced to log on to Reddit and spend hours looking through some of its darkest and most disturbing subreddits so that she can locate the posts of her underage self and then fight with Reddit to have them removed."
As NCOSE noted in its 2025 "Dirty Dozen List," Jane Doe's complaint against Reddit was eventually dismissed.
Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: samantha.kamman@christianpost.com. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman
