![]() ![]() At face, the websites are at war over one man-or two, really. First, Michael Brutsch, a Texas grandpa, veteran, and computer programmer second, Violentacrez, the influential, porn-loving paragon of Reddit’s weirdo-filled fringe. Last week, Gawker’s Adrian Chen outed the first man as the second-the Wizard of a depraved online Oz. ![]() ![]() 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. Number three: “don’t post personal information.” To Redditors, revealing another user’s real-world self is something of a mortal sin. And so, scores of users and moderators started banning the Gawker domain entirely. 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. 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. 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. Gawker has a whole “ Upskirt” page, devoted to Lindsay Lohan. 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. Jacob Siegel, senior editor at Tablet Magazine and author of the brilliant "Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century" article about "disinformation" efforts joins Steve Krakauer to talk about getting into journalism and his time in the military, why it was so important to focus on the topic of "disinformation" and the counter-"disinformation" efforts by the media and intel agencies, how 9/11 was a key factor in all of this, class interest above all else, COVID and "disinformation," the usefulness of the January 6 riot in these efforts, the backstory of Graphika and how intel agencies work with the media to spin the public, Tucker Carlson's place in the media environment amid critiques of the "ruling class" and Jacob's connection to Tucker's firing, and more.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. See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at. Plus Steve's thoughts on the CNN Trump town hall last week. how the Trump era changed it, when Huffington Post put Trump news in its "entertainment" section, Smith's 2015 decision to say it's ok to call Trump a "mendacious liar," his decision to publish the Steele dossier in full, whether BuzzFeed should have framed it differently, reaction from Jake Tapper behind-the-scenes, how Trump made smart media members crazy, Gawker's legacy and whether countercultural rebels have become the establishment orthodoxy, how Twitter has changed the media landscape, the process of writing the book, and more. Ben Smith, author of "Traffic" and editor of Semafor, joins Steve Krakauer to talk about the end of an era in the digital media with the shuttering of BuzzFeed News and MTV News and bankruptcy of Vice, BuzzFeed's Disney deal sliding doors moment, the Obama era of the digital media vs. ![]()
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