Even before I published this article, Reddit had already exploded in outrage. (Gawker sites are now banned from over 60 subreddits, and some pissed off user has signed me up for approximately two dozen mailing lists.) The irony of being upset that a noted custodian of “creepshots” is getting some unwanted attention himself is obvious. Jailbait defenders would often argue that if 14-year-olds didn’t want their bikini pictures to be posted to Reddit, they should not have taken them and uploaded them to their Facebook accounts in the first place. If Brutsch did not want his employers to know that he had become a minor internet celebrity through spending hours every day posting photos of 14-year-olds in bikinis to thousands of people on the internet, he should have stuck to posting cat videos.

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Adrian Chen outed out of Reddit’s most notorious creeps. The whole story is pretty fascinating, but this quote above kind of nailed it on the head for me.

I have very little patience for people who think that they deserve privacy while grossly disregarding the privacy of others. It’s like an inverted golden rule - treat people specifically like you would not want to be treated.

Remember kids, free speech might give you the right to be an asshole. It doesn’t give you the right to be an asshole anonymously.

Claps on claps on claps.

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This is one of the best pieces of feature journalism I’ve read all year.

Also of note: The Daily Dot is doing some great work in documenting internet culture (follow the links.)

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