Yuratuhl wrote:
And now you know about /r/spacedicks.
I thought that was common knowledge...sorry Azelma, but now I can LOL that I've spacedicked someone.
Yuratuhl wrote:
On topic: Gawker was a piece of shit website before this whole fiasco. Adrien Chen is objectively a shitty human being. I concur with Justice Jubber's conclusion, but reach it upon other grounds.
I don't think it needs to be made into a women's issue at all, because it's not. This is internet speech. Candid photography is totally fine. Non-consensual candid photography, specifically, is perfectly legal. It might be uncomfortable for people to accept, but it's not crossing any lines. This wasn't a /r/jailbait scenario (which was also legal thanks to the infinite power of clothing, just more "icky" so it got taken down due to bad press). That said, "doxxing" is also legal. So what this boils down to is honesty and consistency on Gawker's and Chen's part. He's a trash-peddler on a garbage gossip site. He'll do anything to generate hits, so every angle defending his "journalistic integrity" is based upon a faulty premise. Identifying Violentacrez was good reporting. Doing it when that's a supposedly abhorrent practice, one you've personally and loudly decried in the past, makes you an indefensible pile of shit.
So nobody broke any laws. Everyone's free to decide who's a bigger cocksucker, though: the guy who moderates (doesn't provide close to the majority of the content) a bunch of subreddits pandering to questionable (but legal) tastes, or the guy who actively worsens the lives of said moderator and all his dependents because he wants to increase his readership.
It's not a women's issue at all. Pretending it is just gives false importance to "feminists" seeking a cause. Find another sandbox, womyn.
That's pretty much my take on it, except that my opinion is that the people at Gawker are the bigger scumbags since they do exactly the same thing(s) they (rightfully) claimed claimed their victim did, only instead of doing it for shits and giggles like he was they were trying to make money off of it. There is also the hypocrisy aspect of Chen's standing up for a victim of doxxing in the past then doxxing himself to score himself some internet points, infamy, and (most likely) a paycheck blended with their editor's admission that anything in public is fair game and you have no expectation of privacy beyond your front door...which isn't even a line-in-the-sand they stand on the right side of since they routinely post material where the subject should have had the expectation of privacy, like the Hulk Hogan porn.
In the long run, this will hopefully kill Gawker, and their much more abhorrent sister site, Jezebel. They are going to have a much harder time generating ad hits and page views now that many subreddits are banning their content. Reddit is a pretty big news/commentary/picture dump, and losing their lease there could cost them a lot of cash.
Your Pal,
Jubber
