Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Reddit user Violentacrez fired from job after Gawker exposé

Michael Brutsch a programmer, 49, of Texas, was wont to say that Reddit has said it will not work

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whose identity was revealed in an extensive exhibition Gawker revealed he was fired from his job at the weekend.

Michael Brutsch a programmer, 49, of Texas, said he had been on Reddit told not to return to work after Violentacrez Gawker revealed he was a prolific user related messages full of racism, misogyny and incest.

As Violentacrez, Brutsch configure more than one hundred sub-forums (called sub-reddits) where users can share links and photos of underage girls, fantasy rape pictures and upskirt. Brutsch closed your username Violentacrez after Gawker reporter Adrian Chen said he knew his identity. Since then he has returned to the page with the new handle mbrutsch.

under that username, Brutsch said his boss had warned of this article before he received a call telling him to return to office Saturday.

Brutsch writing. "All my remote access is disabled, my health insurance and FSA were canceled immediately (if someone had to drag the weekend to do it) At this point, if one of the dozens of threats death I went out to honor their promises, at least my wife would have insurance. "

Reddit His supporters have launched a campaign to donate money to the unemployed and Brutsch launched e-mail address to Reddit supporters could donate money to your PayPal account.

AJ Daulerio

, Gawker editor who took office in January this year, said the site is now over format, the original information of the type presented Brutsch. He said the place assigned to a person for click bait snarky stories that made him famous, giving other writers more time to work on original stories.


"So if we can stabilize the rest of the traffic and the rest of the team Available from these patches who I hope will do a better Gawker more educated," said Daulerio said The Guardian.

Some community members believe piece Reddit and Gawker Chen was a deliberate attack on Reddit Gawker. Before Chen piece was published, Redditors Daulerio received emails that said they would boycott if the song was released Gawker.

"I've never seen a face Reddit Gawker thing," Daulerio said. "Chen was a great story and it should be more or less on themselves, and I think it ' is how most people took it. "

Daulerio said he was unfazed by boycotts. "Well, it's perfectly fine," he said.

Reddit did not respond to requests for comment.

tab, and the subsequent ban on the Gawker content in some sub-forums, has reignited the debate about anonymity on the Internet and freedom of Reddit to post what he wants. The site has five rules of trade, both belonging to the content:


. Do not post personal information.


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