Until that point, /r/jailbait and other controversial subreddits had been allowed to exist under the site's lassiez faire approach to free speech (even then, it was only removed largely after seeing widespread media attention).
In 2011, the site made one of its first major moves to ban a subreddit: /r/jailbait, a community dedicated to exactly what it sounds like. As Reddit's profile and popularity has risen, its management has historically shown a touch-and-go approach to policing certain of its subreddits (member-founded-and-moderated communities, where users gather to discuss anything under the sun)-especially, until recent years, the most toxic among them.
