

“There’s literally no way of contacting this company to say, ‘Hi, by the way, you have naked children on your site,'” she said. The woman attempted to report the photo with her daughter’s name to Reddit through the website’s reporting tools, but found it difficult to add comments to explain what she was seeing.

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “I can say with a lot of confidence that these are underage girls,” said the woman. She said one photo is of a girl, who is now an adult, that has had an explicit photo of her being shared online since she was 14. The woman has a background in education, and recognized many of the girls as members of her community from northern Saskatchewan. “There are men who were actually going on there and specifically requesting girls and then others are providing naked pictures of the girls that are being requested,” said the woman. Not only that, but the girls were identified by name and location. The woman said she visited the subreddit and saw pictures of “several dozen” young girls, many of them Indigenous. Reddit is a popular American-based website where users can form communities called subreddits and share posts, images and videos. And not only that, but the fact that there doesn’t appear to be any means of ending it is almost unfathomable,” she said. The woman said she’d been fighting an uphill battle trying to get the subreddit taken down by the company.
