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Reddit Bans Creepshots & CreepSquad, Subreddits That Fueled Its War with Gawker

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Re: Reddit Bans Creepshots & CreepSquad, Subreddits That Fueled Its War with Gawker

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This has certainly been an interesting act of an interesting drama, with unsavory players on either side. Not mentioned in this article are purported acts of blackmail which led to the initial closure of /r/CreepShots, which is what I've been most interested in so far as that seems like the most likely part of this drama to result in some sort of legal action.

Re: Reddit Bans Creepshots & CreepSquad, Subreddits That Fueled Its War with Gawker

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This has certainly been an interesting act of an interesting drama, with unsavory players on either side. Not mentioned in this article are purported acts of blackmail which led to the initial closure of /r/CreepShots, which is what I've been most interested in so far as that seems like the most likely part of this drama to result in some sort of legal action.

18 U.S.C. § 873

Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

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No, it's not blackmail and no legal action will be taken. The ability of some reddit users to be completely blind to either facts or any kind of realistic analysis continues to amaze me.

Re: Reddit Bans Creepshots & CreepSquad, Subreddits That Fueled Its War with Gawker

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post #4

Internet drama that's designed to drive hits to two social media sites and is devoid of any technical discussion - the reality television of the Internet. Wish I could downvote.

The 'flag' link would have a similar effect to a downvote.

Re: Reddit Bans Creepshots & CreepSquad, Subreddits That Fueled Its War with Gawker

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post #3

This has certainly been an interesting act of an interesting drama, with unsavory players on either side. Not mentioned in this article are purported acts of blackmail which led to the initial closure of /r/CreepShots, which is what I've been most interested in so far as that seems like the most likely part of this drama to result in some sort of legal action.

18 U.S.C. § 873 Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. --- No, it's not blackmail and no legal action will be taken. The ability of some reddit users to be completely blind to either facts or…

Worthless pedantry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion

http://extortion.uslegal.com/

Re: Reddit Bans Creepshots & CreepSquad, Subreddits That Fueled Its War with Gawker

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post #4

Internet drama that's designed to drive hits to two social media sites and is devoid of any technical discussion - the reality television of the Internet. Wish I could downvote.

And appearing on HN due to self-promotion by the author.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jessicaSFNY

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