blackn1ght comments on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 28 points 8 months ago (12 children)

I'm not defending the guy but wasn't it that a mod of that subreddit added him as a mod as a joke? I don't think spez created it.

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[+] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -17 points 8 months ago (11 children)

I believe op unless you have proof.

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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 21 points 8 months ago (9 children)

It was always the version of events that I've read.

I just did a quick search and found this, a video claiming that he was a mod, but the majority of comments indicate it's not true and that it was debunked.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -4 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Spez actually owns site where majority of comments stick up for said owner? Sorry man, that ain't proof. Wtf are you sticking up for spez anyway? I don't know anyone sane that would.

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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 14 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

Well where's the proof that he created it? I'll happily stand corrected.

I just think that if we're going to attack someone, it's probably a good idea to use facts that are true and not made up (it's likely that op just misremembered the details) otherwise it just puts doubt on any further valid points. I've no interest in defending the guy but I do think we should try and keep our facts straight when we criticise someone.

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[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 6 points 8 months ago

I just think that if we're going to attack someone, it's probably a good idea to use facts that are true and not made up

Err .. sir. Do you understand how the internet works? "Facts"? "Truth"? "Not made up"? These are not things a shit poster craves.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 21 points 8 months ago (5 children)

He was a mod for a while, but not the top mod. Top mod is the creator, unless the creator quits, passing it off to second mod. And he was mod at a time when anyone could be added as a mod without their consent. No need to accept an invite.

It's bad enough that he was happy to let the subreddit exist for as long as it did even after significant on-site pressure to remove it. The same thing he did half a decade later with the_Donald. The fact that it took mainstream media criticism to be willing to take it down should be scathing enough. We don't need to make up bs.

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[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Hoffman was a founder of Reddit, he was a part of the very creation of the site. He also had absolute and unlimited access to every bit of data that reddit ever had or created. He was also well known for editing other people's comments for his own amusement and narcissism. He not only could have easily been the creator, but he could have been the very mod who made his other account "a mod as a joke". He definitely could have removed himself as a mod of jb just as easily as any of the other well known edits he did to Reddit. And he definitely had direct and unfettered access to every single photo that was ever uploaded or linked to Reddit, even the ones that were so illegal that even the jailbait mods took them down.
So, the other guys opinion that Hoffman was the head pedo and creator of jailbait is just as valid and verifiable as your opinion that it was a joke that he nothing to do with it.

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