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  • “The Fappening” Reddit Might Have Ruined The Internet

    “The Fappening” Reddit Might Have Ruined The Internet

    What is “The Fappening”?

    The brilliant name given to the current celebrity nude leak scandal as coined by a group of basement dwellers, men who’ve pretty much admitted to the world that the closest they’ll get to sexual fulfillment is getting off on the humiliation and shaming of famous women.

    Congratulations.

    The subreddit named for the gross invasion of privacy was recently shut down by Reddit.

    Not because it was wrong to aid in the repeated emotional and sexual violation of total strangers. No, they warbled something about freedom of speech and a new kind of community.

    Read the complete statement and waiving of any moral responsibility as the people who run the website here.

    The “you make Reddit good or bad, we just work here” commentary is both fascinating and somewhat appalling.

    Sure the folks over at Reddit are correct when they say you can’t get into legal trouble for merely linking to stolen material.

    That doesn’t make it any less disturbing that the move to shut down the “Fappening” subreddit quite possibly didn’t come until after Reddit knew that they were staring down the barrel of a shotgun with celebrity lawyers and the FBI on the other side.

    Perhaps even more interesting is that Reddit seems to be unaware of the fact that its need to be all things to all people could very well be its undoing.

    And that of a good portion of the internet.

    Let’s get back to that “it’s not illegal to link to stolen materials” thing.

    The word missing from that statement is “yet”.

    What could possibly hasten the closure of that legal loophole?

    How about child porn? How about linking to underage nudes? How about the emotional and sexual violation of women over and over again by the same people beating their fist on the table about the “evil NSA”?

    Reddit, 4chan and other so-called champions of a free internet are probably going to be what ends the sort of anonymity and ability to freely exchange information that many individuals enjoy. Even the law-abiding kind.

    Somehow “fapping” outweighs the sort of common sense that could see grounds to close a huge loophole.

    When that hole closes (and it will), one can only hope that the time spent alone in the dark by these individuals with just themselves and their right hands was well worth it.

  • Jennifer Lawrence Nude Photos To Be Art Exhibit

    Jennifer Lawrence and other celebs affected by the nude photo leak last weekend could be seen later this year in an art exhibit. A person who calls themselves an artist intends to blow up some of the photos into life-size images and print them on canvas for display at a gallery in St. Petersburg, Florida.

    This artist, who goes by XVALA, and Cory Allen Contemporary Art are going ahead with the so-called “art” despite the obvious outrage from some of the victims, like Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence.

    CACA will display the photos of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton, along with other images from seven years of mining Google for leaked photos of celebrities at their most vulnerable, in his exhibit called “No Delete”.

    The artist says of his “Fear Google” campaign of the last seven years, “We share our secrets with technology,” said XVALA. “And when we do, our privacy becomes accessible to others.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WuFPw-IIkg

    XVALA at least acknowledges that the outrage is valid, but that won’t deter him.

    “It’s encouraging to see the outrage in people’s responses to this project we are doing, especially in an age when we give away so much information,” he told E! News in a statement. “It’s great to see people still care about privacy and will stand up for it.”

    Cory Allen says the goal of the exhibit featuring Jennifer Lawrence and others is to draw attention to the problem of privacy invasion.

    “We hope the conceptual value of this project will help address issues that will help find better ways to protect an individual’s information,” he explained. “To gain back our privacy.”

    Allen also said of displaying Jennifer Lawrence’s photos on canvas,

    “Our goal was not to do anything illegal. It was for XVALA to create art; to follow through with his vision for this project and for me to promote it,” Allen explainded. “We have not been contacted by anyone.”

    Jennifer Lawrence has lawyered up, however, so even though this artist plans to go through with his show, there could still be some ramifications.

    Lawrence’s rep told E! News, “This is a flagrant violation of privacy. The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence.”

    What do you think? Should this artist be prosecuted?