What I was most struck by was the hypocrisy: in Reddit's vision, freedom of speech includes anonymously posting invasive images of teenagers, but excludes posting the name of a 49-year-old programmer who anonymously posts invasive images of teenagers.
Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web
https://gawker.com/5950981/
"One reason Violentacrez continued to occupy such a high-profile position on Reddit was of course his free speech rhetoric. But Violentacrez has historically had a close relationship with Reddit's staff, a fact far less well-known than his controversial behavior."
"For all his unpleasantness, they realized that Violentacrez was an excellent community moderator and could be counted on to keep the administrators abreast of any illegal content he came across."
Wow, it's like Wikipedia's civility vs. established editors dynamic but with more misogyny, homophobia and racism...
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Tom Morris
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