This is a popular myth, but it didn't break any rules at the time (which is why there was a decent-sized outrage when it happened; reddit basically ignored their own rules to get rid of a subreddit), and it wasn't illegal - there's a reason the government didn't go after violentacrez once Gawker revealed his real identity and he stupidly went on CNN to defend himself. The subreddit drew a line in the sand and banned anything which crossed that line. It was absolutely immoral and creepy as all fuck, but they deleted everything which crossed the line into being actual child porn. it wouldn't surprise me in the least if some of the moderators were saving the stuff they deleted to their own hard drive (or a server hosted in another country more likely), but what they allowed to stay on that subreddit was within the bounds of legality.The main difference is that /r/jailbait directly broke reddit rules, was illegal content, etc.