Can a child pornographer last longer at Free Republic than a Giuliani supporter?

[meegbear]

Ultra-conservative news site and web forum Free Republic has been a barely-moderated cesspool of the nuttiest right-wingers on the internet since 1996. Freepers basically have carte blanche to say whatever they like—as long as they love guns and hate gays. Really, the only way to get banned from FreeRepublic is to announce your support for Rudy Giuliani. One thing that apparently won't result in a ban: using the site solely to boost web ranking for your child porn site.



Here's the profile page for Free Republic user "Preteen Lolita." Preteen's been a Freeper since December 28, 2009—4-and-a-half months of using FreeRepublic.com's page rank to advertise underage pornography without anyone noticing.



The link (don't click on it) is obscured via a free Swiss URL shortening service. I can't personally confirm, but I'm told the link redirects to a site that features what appears to be real-life child porn. When you search Google for referrals to the site the link redirects to, Google informs you that a link has been deleted due to a child pornography complaint. (Referrals to the redirect link all advertise underage pornography.)

Now FreeRepublic.com is not hosting or even "condoning" child pornography. It's just that it's so ridiculously easy to set up a profile and get your own FreeRepublic page that apparently anyone can and will do it. Theoretically, someone could do this at Kos or OpenSalon. (But, as far as we know, no one has.)

Really, it's just funny that a site that was created for the purpose of hounding Bill Clinton for his moral failings, a site that represents the fire-breathing anti-gay, anti-abortion morality police, a site so doctrinaire in its vision of conservativism that hundreds of users have been banned for supporting Giuliani and even Mitt Romney, is also considered by filthy smut merchant to be the perfect place to peddle his wares.

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http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/pornography/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/05/12/freep_porn