Pretty appalled in the larger communities reaction during all of this. /r/thefappening is a subreddit whose sole purpose is to host copyrighted pictures, some of which may be underage.
It's amazing and disgusting to see the lengths these people are going to do defend their so-called 'right' to shame and embarrass others online. Just because something isn't strictly illegal doesn't give them a free pass to go at it.
Edit: If you're going to downvote, please comment and explain why. I can't think of why a sane person (or, one that's been on HN long enough to be able to down vote) would disagree with Reddit's decision to ban /r/thefappening and it's content.
That's true for almost any NSFW subreddit. Those images are copyrighted and most often the person posting the link doesn't have permission. Occasionally some underage pictures might be mixed in, but the mods remove them. What's exceptional about /r/thefappening? It was following the same principle. Except that it was pictures of celebrities, received a large amount of traffic very quickly, and was denounced by many media outlets.
I'm not trying to make a legal argument here. It's immoral and I fully support Reddit's decision to do what they want on their own site.
I'm just disgusted at the lengths (awarding/taking away imaginary internet points) people are going to to 'defend their right' to do something which is not even questionable - any sane person would agree in that the content on that subreddit is wrong.
Is it? I thought all the torrent search engine shut-downs, napster and its ilk, etc., had pretty much proven that linking to illegal content hosts was in fact illegal.
It's amazing and disgusting to see the lengths these people are going to do defend their so-called 'right' to shame and embarrass others online. Just because something isn't strictly illegal doesn't give them a free pass to go at it.
Edit: If you're going to downvote, please comment and explain why. I can't think of why a sane person (or, one that's been on HN long enough to be able to down vote) would disagree with Reddit's decision to ban /r/thefappening and it's content.