everybody on ilx complains about reddit

the logic, the beautiful logic of those guys is amazing.
posting public pics of girls = legal = morally noble and needs protecting
posting public details of creeper = illegal violation of constitional right to anonymity = vilest thing in history

xp jfc

pretty much every upvoted comment on that /r/politics thread is about how stupid it is to take stand defending the creepshots guy. but they also start with caveats that gawker sucks

so is adrian going to out this dude or what

He can't, redditors say that it is illegal.

against the law on reddit island

Do it and I will sue you for 10 million bitcoins.

what's the exchange rate between USD and reddit karma

wau this is amazingly pathetic and hilarious

haha some of the comments on the reddit thread about it are so amazingly unselfaware. theyre all like "gawker has a history of posting personal things about people without their permission"

hahaha like sexualized pics of childrens butts or

oh you just mean like reg journalism stuff

sexualized pics of children's butts is totally regular journalism, this is 2012

i think i saw a huffpo gallery about that

Buzzfeed surely

ahahaha (via max)

http://i.imgur.com/nHwHF.png

my favourite in that thread is the OP posting a link to the last nudes violentacrez uploaded, in memoriam

one thing i really, really don't get about some members of the generation raised on the internet is the weird insistence that nothing is off limits or crosses and line and if you think there is, the problem is with you MAAAAAAAAN

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:27 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's some link between this and similar attitudes among certain stand-up comedians/comedy fans.

the kind of attitudes and speech that was acceptable in public was way worse in the 80s / i blame reagan

just say Daniel Tosh!

feel like that attitude has always been around w/edgy young dudes, i for sure dabbled in it as a teen

i get what you guys are saying, but i think the internet opens up a lot more avenues for it to be more pervasive and off-putting. i mean, its one thing for a comedian to do "edgy" rape jokes, but there wasn't an easily accessible public forum for people to share animated gifs of really abhorrent stuff back in the 80s either.

lol @ the atlantic

This tribute to his legacy singles out the traffic he drove to the site in its early days, "as his numerous porn subreddits brought in a lot of visitors and pageviews to this site and, thus, advertising revenue," writes user POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS.

hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha

Drummerboyz95: "PM me with the others please? I'm 15 btw."

i get what you guys are saying, but i think the internet opens up a lot more avenues for it to be more pervasive and off-putting.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, October 11, 2012 5:29 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol yes applies to every horrible thing in the world m/l, great job internet

(That's where he talks about hooking up with his 19 year old step daughter)

According to a post by Jailbait moderator I_RAPE_PEOPLE

better this vile stuff be on the internet rather than being espoused at a town hall by a candidate running for office, or on GNR lyrics.

wait what xxpost

sorry, i don't think the atlantic wire article in question has been linked

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/10/redditors-stand-gawker-protect-child-pornography/57850/

yeah sorry and the I_RAPE_PEOPLE mention was from the orig (?) gawker article

i missed this detail in chen's article: "(Reddit is owned by Advanced Publications, the same parent company as magazine giant Conde Nast, of which it was a division until recently.)"

Which one of you runs the reddit.txt twitter.

It's been on fire today.

Think Reddit.TXT is run by a Something Awful dude. But it has been incredible.

and then gawkers gotta go and do this http://gawker.com/5951031/andrew-goldman-is-not-a-misogynist-and-neither-am-i

i mean.

http://i.imgur.com/u16Qb.png

that guy definitely sounds not gayful

The rap against Goldman is this: He asked Hedren, "Actors have been known to sleep with less powerful directors [than Alfred Hitchcock] for advancement in show business. Did you ever consider it?" (In Sullivan's inaccurate framing, that became Goldman "asking a successful woman if she has slept her way to the top.")

Im sorry, I am struggling to work out how that question ISNT "did you sleep your way to the top", wtf!?

alfred hitchcock tried really hard to get tippi hedren to sleep w him

ya that andrew goldman thing was brutal, yo max, how come you okayed that

"Since he took over the Q-and-A column last year, Goldman has approached it with an off-kilter sensibility, kind of a louche party guest."

A cast-iron guarantee of skeevy questions when the interviewee is female.

the new york times' creepy old uncle

But then Twitterstorms are a cast-iron guarantee of misrepresentation and bullshit all round so there's that too.

Someday a real Twitterstorm will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

and then gawkers gotta go and do this http://gawker.com/5951031/andrew-goldman-is-not-a-misogynist-and-neither-am-i

i mean.

That was ridiculous. I know the dude is friends with Goldman and was trying to stick up for him, but there's no way Goldman would have asked any of those type of questions to a man.

And calling someone stupid because they enjoy reality television is nagl, especially when gawker covers reality tv extensively.

I know the dude is friends with Goldman and was trying to stick up for him,

exactly why he should have been the last person to write that piece

Each one of those Goldman questions makes a certain sense in isolation, as the NYT argued, but when there are three of them you have to think there's a problem.

that goldman article is terrible

That Cook piece is really bad.

its just like that thing where you get drawn into a messy muck over a bad thing and you keep swinging and you keep sinking. in a week or something it will feel awful to have written it, i bet.

like if that twitter convo had been on ilx we would have gone well past *lock thread* from the peanut gallery.