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and I don't want to be too much of a hypocrite here, so I'll confess: I totally followed that subreddit. A lot. I'm not sad that it's gone, but the blog post didn't make me re-examine my life choices, either.
Yep, pretty much this. I don't think I would have ever seen reddit admins white knighting which is exactly what they're doing. There is content 10 times worse than what we saw in /r/thefappening and it's still up yet we're told we should feel bad about seeing JLaw naked? Come on.
Comment by chrisq823 at 07/09/2014 at 14:48 UTC
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That's not a good line of reasoning. Those pictures were fucking awful. They are stolen, not leaked, stolen. Now I looked at them because my curiosity honestly won out on it. But as I have had time to think on it it really isn't kind of creepy and wrong to be freaking out over these pictures. They are people's private lives thrown over the Internet for everyone to see.
Just because there are worse things on the site doesn't make something else ok. And you shouldn't feel good about seeing jlaw naked since her privacy was shattered by some random Internet asshole.