Feminist website Jezebel gets deluged with rape porn gifs.

[MADem]

95. It's technically not "repeated."

Anyone who posts a rude gif or comment gets banned. One and done. No "repeated" about it.

The website refuses to keep any records on their posters, to include IPs or any identifiers. It's technically not a telephone call, but never mind that. EVERYONE on the site is anonymous, so it's a non-starter trying to single out one poster in a sea of anonymous posters and accuse him of doing what everyone else is doing. And it's technically not obscene, either--I think you'd have a high mountain to climb to try to make that claim. And it's not directed against a "specific person," either--it's designed to outrage anyone--any random individual-- who comes across it and doesn't like that sort of thing.

Your excerpt just doesn't make the points you want it to make.

We're not talking about "child pornography." The FBI would be on that like stink on shit, and they'd probably have no trouble at all tracking down that "anonymous" poster, so that's not the issue at all. We're talking about rude images, gifs, that last a few seconds, and are taken off of "adult" websites (or can even be found at some of these stupid little gif aggregators) and posted not for prurient reasons, but for the express purpose of offending the people reading at that particular site.

And if you know anything about obscenity, it's most certainly in the eye of the beholder. There's a fine line between obscenity and censorship, and "ironic use" of imagery (see Mapplethorp). The poster--should anyone try to prosecute them (and we know that will never happen) could claim the latter--free speech to make a point in opposition.

I think if people do not want to risk seeing rude images, they need to limit their internet browsing to websites with rules that censor that kind of thing. Otherwise, they can--and should--certainly complain about and report such imagery and ask for its removal, but they shouldn't go through life on the net expecting that trolls aren't going to try to poke them in the eye on a regular basis. It's what those assclowns do.

Now, let me once again reiterate that I am not a fan of this kind of thing. I think the trolls are stupid, and childish (I have to say this because, even though I've said it before, a hundred times or more, there will be aggrieved hectorers who will accuse me of supporting the conduct, when all I'm doing is discussing the REALITY of the situation). However, there's lots of "speech" that is rude and offensive, and it's out there. That private website has the right to delete it if they don't like it, but if they don't establish a gate-keeping process on the way into the site, they're going to get all kinds of comments, and some of them are going to be rude and offensive.

As I have said before, and I will say again, the fact that the website hasn't corrected this situation suggests to me that there's money to be made. Outrage=posts/referrals=page clicks=profit.