Last year, it published a lurid account of an alleged one-night-stand with Tea Party darling Christine O’Donnell-that man had his anonymity protected. Elsewhere on the site, it reproduces scores of non-consensually-grabbed photos-and links to other sites that show the full nude upskirt or naked pictures. Gawker has a whole “ Upskirt” page, devoted to Lindsay Lohan. In 2009, the blog linked to “creepshots” of their own: naked pictures of tween icon Vanessa Hudgens, taken when she was just 17 years old. If Reddit privacy canon is meant to protect free speech, blocking a website is a two-faced move on the part of many of the site’s moderators.īut there’s far more hypocrisy to Gawker’s position. Chen fired back with a counter-ban, threatening “to file a DMCA takedown” “if I see reddit link to one of my blog posts.” Most would agree that a young woman’s right not to be photographed and ogled without her consent supersedes Brutsch’s right not to be outed as Violentacrez-and most netizens have taken Gawker’s side. And so, scores of users and moderators started banning the Gawker domain entirely. Number three: “don’t post personal information.” To Redditors, revealing another user’s real-world self is something of a mortal sin. Violentacrez had built a reputation as one of Reddit’s most notorious moderators and trolls, who not only uploaded voyeuristic photos of teens, but helped build a community, or subreddit, around them. Last week, Gawker’s Adrian Chen outed the first man as the second-the Wizard of a depraved online Oz. First, Michael Brutsch, a Texas grandpa, veteran, and computer programmer second, Violentacrez, the influential, porn-loving paragon of Reddit’s weirdo-filled fringe. At face, the websites are at war over one man-or two, really. In the other, there’s Reddit: the chipper, multimillion-user-strong “front page” of the Internet. Do you know there’s a war on? In one cybertrench, there’s Gawker: a gossip blog that’s great at wading through the mud.
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