Yeah, I don't think there's really much danger of a huge outpouring of sympathy for Brutsch here. I'm not sure how this gives the perverts a way to weasel around being held responsible for their actions, except to let Violentacrez take the heat while they lay low for awhile.
...the reason I haven't threadsplit yet is that I haven't come up with a good thread name. Suggestions?
Actually, Reddit has been pouring the sympathy on Violentacrez and his cohort, Potato_in_my_anus pretty much nonstop for the last week, right down to a huge amount of reddit's prominent subreddits banning Gawker links. While they are claiming the high ground of free speech and 'doxxing isn't right!' they did this same fucking thing when Reddit banned the child porn boards earlier this year. There is a huge number of pedophile and pervert apologists on Reddit and most of the protesting is about defending the right to be a creep.
Invading somebody's privacy is indefensible, sure, but if Creepshots hadn't been forcibly closed and it's moderators all banned, I don't think Reddit would have had half the outrage about this that they are now, if only because of a prior history of being a terrible community.
I wonder how public perception of Reddit is changing because of this. If I were an accurate barometer of public opinion (which I'm clearly not), it would seem like Reddit looks like a bunch of hypocritical babies as they attempt to censor any attempt to point out all the sexual predators they love to defend.
There's a reason that Creepshots got shut down and that Violentacrez and Potato_in_my_anus got banned- it's not because Reddit doesn't support pedophilia and the invasion of teenage girls' privacy. (BTW: almost all of creepshots was underage girls, just saying
), it's because Reddit's bottom line is affected when embarrassing stories reach public perception. The "jailbait" (in some cases, actual child pornography) boards didn't get shut down until Anderson Cooper did a story about them, and then suddenly Reddit was taking the moral high ground with a series of sweeping policy changes. Reddit's administration is insanely uptight about the public perception of the site, but I can't help but wonder if maybe the administrators weren't a bunch of creeps with weird porn habits, they'd never have to scramble to remove these Subreddits whenever somebody finds out about them.