I've never browsed reddit (seriously.. A link to an Ama here and there and that's it), so these particular images are unfamiliar to me. That said:
"The pictures in /r/jailbait are, overwhelmingly, of people under the age of consent"
=> How can you tell? Which law applies? The reddit link (heh.. the one submitted on top) discusses vastly different laws in different countries. If it's legal to take nude (I understand the pictures weren't, but let me make this point) picture of yourself with 15 or 16 according to local laws and you post it to the internet, is it 'child pornography'?
"and are being viewed and distributed without the consent or knowledge of the people in them."
=> How is that determined? You might very well be correct, but is that really a fact or a possibility?
"While the content may be "tamer", those pictures are still being viewed for sexual gratification."
=> What does that even change? Pictures in the wild are used in all kinds of ways. Maybe you end up being a poster in a 16 year old girls room. Or as a backing of a dart board. Or someone gets 'sexual gratification' from your G+ or Facebook pictures. That doesn't change the pictures in the slightest. It's a reception on the other side. You cannot possible predict that, have no say in it.
"The pictures in /r/jailbait are, overwhelmingly, of people under the age of consent"
=> How can you tell? Which law applies? The reddit link (heh.. the one submitted on top) discusses vastly different laws in different countries. If it's legal to take nude (I understand the pictures weren't, but let me make this point) picture of yourself with 15 or 16 according to local laws and you post it to the internet, is it 'child pornography'?
"and are being viewed and distributed without the consent or knowledge of the people in them."
=> How is that determined? You might very well be correct, but is that really a fact or a possibility?
"While the content may be "tamer", those pictures are still being viewed for sexual gratification."
=> What does that even change? Pictures in the wild are used in all kinds of ways. Maybe you end up being a poster in a 16 year old girls room. Or as a backing of a dart board. Or someone gets 'sexual gratification' from your G+ or Facebook pictures. That doesn't change the pictures in the slightest. It's a reception on the other side. You cannot possible predict that, have no say in it.