It's kind of mind boggling the stuff they have to do. There was a documentary on a little while back about the GCHQ equivalent, or the UK's version. The agents have to get them to play into their hands in this sort of way on a regular basis and scour hundreds of graphic photos and videos to see if the offender has evidence of more crimes already in circulation.
Holy crap.
Wait, what? How THE FUCK was he still working at Ars Technica after posting this shit almost 10 (TEN!!!) years ago?
Yeah, well, imagine posting this on your employer's forums.. in 2002.
Damn. While I will not hold ArsTechnica directly responsible for his behaviour/actions, they employed someone who used their own forums and said the things he did and also had a public-facing Twitter account that was already mounting up shit in 2009.
Not a good look for ArsDamn. While I will not hold ArsTechnica directly responsible for his behaviour/actions, they employed someone who used their own forums and said the things he did and also had a public-facing Twitter account that was already mounting up shit in 2009.
Talk about not looking into your employees enough/keeping an eye on the things they say.
Time for more projection awards
Do ArsTechnica even look at their own forums?
Well in 2002 I think he was 21 or 22 and admitted on their forums to downloading thousands of images advertised as 15-year-olds off Usenet. Before saying he didn't think they were actually 15-year-olds. Who knows what else was in those images if that was how he was behaving then.
like, these tweets are highly ironic given what transpired but they're not signs of anything, so what are we supposed to get out of this? this is basically the gamergate/alt-right playbook of searching someone's social media history for bad keywords and posting the results en masse regardless of context.
Yeah, some of it is simply ironic/dunking on someone, but everyone does that, no point in just packaging it as alt-right to make all onlookers of his media presence feel they shouldn't mention it.
This might be the documentary you're talking about.
Did not know he was in a doc, was that when he was "researching a book"
Yeah that article was a trip. Unfortunately read up on enough articles and documentaries about drug addict/dealer parents (or honestly just pure psychopaths) and this level of depravity isnt that rare.
We have online vigilantes here in the UK that are good at catching these fuckere.
maybe he has a clause that won't let him get the lone ranger out
Should have got him a stunt cock like Willam Dafoe in Antichrist.
I always had a feeling that he was protected by the founder of Ars Technica Ken Fisher. He seemed to get away with behaviour on the Ars forums, well before he got employed by them, that would have other “lesser” folk banned permanently.
It's possible he doesn't really see what he's doing as pedophilia. The same way there are those NAMBLA types who turn "having sex with underage boys" into "well we're helping turn them into better men, like the greeks used to!"
I never posted on them so I can't say anything for that assumption, but some of those posts are pretty wild, even for "2002 standards", something a few people keep bringing up in this topic as if someone into their 20's wouldn't know right from wrong back then.
Yeah, this is fucked. I don’t see how they kept this guy around with all this shit he’s been saying.Damn. While I will not hold ArsTechnica directly responsible for his behaviour/actions, they employed someone who used their own forums and said the things he did and also had a public-facing Twitter account that was already mounting up shit in 2009.
Talk about not looking into your employees enough/keeping an eye on the things they say.
Time for more projection awards
Do ArsTechnica even look at their own forums?
I'll assume either complete and utter ignorance which doesn't reflect well on them for vetting, or they just didn't care because his articles and coverage were bringing in traffic and being received well.
Presumably "May 10, 1999," as that's what it says under his username.
