everybody on ilx complains about reddit

just wanna say that i went to r/buttsharpie and burn the internet

hanging out on a message bord all day instead of working is prob reasonable grounds for dismissal

Yeah that was my immediate thought right at the start of all this!

and no prob about it - a lotta companies have pretty hardass "dont browse on company time" rules let alone basically running porn chans.

lol forks

can't it be agreed that this man is a free speech hero of his times? in a few years woody harrelson will have portrayed him in an academy award winner

what makes you guys think he enjoyed getting blown by his stepdaughter

gotta say, this is a fantastic way to really get to know reddit

what is the term "jailbait" if not an implicit acknowledgement of (statuatory) rapey feelings? i mean

yeah the contortions involved w/these dickheads to excuse whats gone on is staggering.

Suddenly occurred to me how this thread might look if Momus was still posting here.

oh dont even.

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Why is this all happening on a thread about some flash game?

From what I have heard dick pics would be involved

Jailbait was the online equivalent of systematized street harassment.
Except, of course, that no one knew the names, address, phone number of anyone, and, in accordance with reddit policy, any comments or posts revealing such information were removed as soon as we were made aware of them.

that is... not how street harrassment works...? huh

Let's not mention the fact that (anderson) Cooper's segment had a lawyer look at /r/jailbait, and he admitted on air that there was nothing illegal there.

what kind of shitlord do you have to be if your sole line of defense is "but it's not illegal"

[–]VAGINA_BLADES 8 points 5 hours ago

Dude I just want to say, you are a pleasantly fucked up guy and everyone here has done completely weird, totally socially unacceptable shit on the internet. Most of us just look at porn in isolation, you have had the misfortune of getting caught being more open and forthright with your habits.

99% of the population would get fired if there was a news article detailing the depths of their internet debauchery, and it is a scary, unsettling trend that yours got dug up for the world to see. Especially since what you have done is "distasteful" and not illegal. I can't help but feel like this is a big moment, a turning point, for the internet in terms of personal privacy and anonymity. Best of luck to you, you may be a filthy pervert, but you don't deserve all this.

pro-tip: 99% of the population did not choose to call themselves VAGINA_BLADES, you may be projecting

POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS here, posting under this alt account since my proper one is completely banned

this is seriously nonstop roffles, no wonder ppl read reddit

what kind of shitlord do you have to be if your sole line of defense is "but it's not illegal"

sure a good start is half the work

lol Ned!

someone catch me up here: did this guy get fired yet? is he under any legal threat yet? death threats?

This guy, what a loser. If he loses his job/has life ruined/whatever he deserves it. "It's not illegal" yeah neither is outing your real name, asshole.

"I was just trolling" not a defense for anything imo.

Reddit itself seems to be full of people arguing for AND against this guy so i'd be wary of any reports of it being all about protecting this creep. That last page seemed to have plenty of people saying this guy gets what he deserves.

dude got fired Saturday apparently, and is receiving anonymous taunts and threats

and, you know, it's not really cool to threaten anyone, but there is certainly an argument here that dude was behaving in a manner almost guaranteed to generate threats and irl repercussions should his identity be outed

Well he wanted to rile people up!

i think this case kinda illustrates the difference between freedom and liberty, in the sense that while yes, you technically have "freedom of speech", you're not "at liberty" to say whatever you want

if a reporter decided to fixate on you, as an ilxor, and read through and select your hmm 'least flattering' posts in order to run a story on you as an example of the problems with idk eg lazy timewasting office worker, how would you fare?

[–]befjdz 6 points 5 hours ago

This isn't all about what mrbrutch deserves, it's also about people around him protecting themselves.

Although I would argue that he does indeed deserve all of this.

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[–]ThisIsYourPenis -10 points 4 hours ago

fuck

off

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xpost "Boy VG you sure like the all-caps key, what's up with that"

these names are killing me

a real smart teacher once broke down for me the difference between freedom and liberty and it involved a breakdown of the semantics of "taking liberties" and "at liberty" and so on, i wish i remembered the breakdown better so i could contribute something to this thread

badly!

but i don't think your parallel really does much... i'm not some kind of celeb-king of the lazy internet timewasters. nor does that have the creeped-out immorality of what this dude was into.

xp to darragggg

being 'at liberty' to do something doesn't get you beaten by vinnie jones iirc

yeah fair points goole, but idk maybe this guy was the worst person on the internet and maybe he's not, maybe you're not the king of lazy internet timewasters but idk, some ilx lurker reporter took agin you, say

i'm not denying this guy's a total pick-your-term, but idk 'deserves' threats?

if you ever do the gift trading / secret santa thing on reddit, its weirdly encouraged that your gifter read all your old posts and stalk you online to find the perfect gift.

and we all prob 'deserve' our p45 in the morning based on our internet usage at work, right? i've spent hours discussing the comical possibilities of the german shitshelf, there're people out there waiting to be housed, it's not defensible

I'd do pretty well. Maybe I'd be outed as being a super communist prone to incoherent stoner philosophizing.

he does not deserve threats

what's happening to this dude is not 'justice' by any stretch. it's simply 'consequences.'

^^^ bingo

this is why "don't be a dick" should be everyone's cardinal rule in how they approach online interaction

maybe this guy was the worst person on the internet and maybe he's not

how would you know if he was the absolute A1 worst or not, and would that matter? like, maybe bashar assad has a forum somewhere?

chen's article makes a good case for his uniqely powerful badness -- mod of the creep forums on the biggest aggregator on the web.

btw he is totally fishing for donations from other redditors

nah it was just set against yr contention that you're not king slacker iirc, it doesn't matter how he does in comparison, i agree.

[–]mbrutsch[S] -1 points 31 minutes ago

Meh. "reddit" is not a person. I've gotten $110 so far.

internet creeps don't have very deep pockets, apparently

does the top contributor get a chewed-on Mountain Dew can?

haaaaaaaaaaahahahaahaha omg

chewed on mountain dew can?

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