Podcasts about violentacrez

Tech is Giant, Monolithic, and Scary: This week, Paul Ford and Rich Ziademeet with Louise Matsakis to discuss how tech reporting has evolved alongside the hyper-growth of tech companies. How has the role of journalists changed? Which companies are difficult to talk to, and which are the easiest?  More often than before, Louise says that journalists are playing the role of content moderators, forcing platforms to do more introspection and make broader changes. We touch on what’s topical in tech reporting today: What can be done to stop the culture of harassment prevalent on big platforms, how should scaling companies deal with oversights that screw people over, and how could we imagined role of the Facebook Press Secretary? LINKS Louise Matsakis Know Your Meme: Chaotic Good, Chaotic Neutral Amazon’s Electricity Subsidies, Bloomberg Time magazine sold to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife for $190m, Gaurdian  Journalists Are Not Social Media Platforms’ Unpaid Content Moderators,Motherboard (VICE) Elsagate Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act Google Wants to Kill the URL, Wired Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web, Gawker

Episode 44: Exposing Predditors (Podcast). **Trigger Warnings** This podcast discusses sexual assault and rape. Exposing perverts like Violentacrez (aka Michael Brutsch) and other Reddit users to post to such subreddits like CreepShots, RapingWomen, and Jailbait. Name and shame, that’s the only way to effectively deal with predators and rapists until the laws catch up and […]

Adrian Chen, staff writer at Gawker and editor at The New Inquiry, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @adrianchen "Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, the Biggest Troll on the Web" (Gawker • Oct 2012) "The Long, Fake Life of J.S. Dirr" (Gawker • Jun 2012) "Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History" (Gawker • Apr 2012) "The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers" (Gawker • Jan 2012) The New Inquiry

What rights to privacy can we expect when we choose to act anonymously / pseudonymously on the internet? Do they end at your public actions? Is it acceptable to violate the privacy of one class of user over another? Is it the purview of objective journalism to make that decision? The outing of Reddit's ViolentAcrez, "the Biggest Troll on the Web" by Gawker columnist Adrian Chen brings to light those questions and more this week. But first, the headlines...Microsoft names launch dates and pricing for Windows 8 & Surface RT, Apple teases the possible announcement of the iPad Mini. Saturday Night Live mocks whiny tech bloggers. What We're Playing With Andy: Black Mesa Chris: Check the Weather Tom: Yahoo IntoNow's Capit Headlines Windows 8 packaging and pricing revealed: standard OEM $99, Pro Pack $139 Windows 8 campaign kicks off with first official television commercial Microsoft Surface RT Priced: 32GB For $499 Without Touch Cover, $599 With; 64GB for $699 First Microsoft Surface ad airs on national TV ahead of October 26th release Apple announces special event for Oct. 23 Apple to launch 24 new iPad models, comprised of iPad minis and perhaps Lightning iPad 3 SNL's Sketch Pits iPhone 5 Factory Workers Problems Against The Tech Critics Audible Book of the Week Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky Musical Interlude: Who Are You by The Who Hot Topic: Internet Anonymity/Pseudonymity Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web Clearing up rumors and hearsay as the Internet eagerly awaits the Gawker Reddit Story MBrutsch comments on Gawker article Gawker outs one of Reddit's shady power users, and the world doesn't end Reddit CEO Speaks Out On Violentacrez In Leaked Memo: 'We Stand for Free Speech' A Few Words On Reddit, Gawker, and Anonymity When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook CNN Interview With ViolentAcrez Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Techmeme editor Lidija Davis.

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This week, TDD regulars Andrew Sorcini, Dwayne DeFreitas and Lidija Davis join Venturebeat's Sean Ludwig as we talk to top contributors to Social news site Reddit.com as we find out what makes them do what they do to make Reddit so popular. But first, the week's top tech news...President Obama proposes a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, Apple acquires Chomp, iPhone user wins $850 in throttling case against AT&T, Apple announces iPad 3 event, Yahoo seeks to force Facebook into licensing patents, Google+ suffers low turnout, Reddit crafts an Internet privacy law. Show Links Obama unveils Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights Apple Acquires Chomp; App Store Search And Discovery To Be Completely Revamped Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case Apple announces March 7 event, likely iPad 3 announcement iPad 3 Rumor Roundup Yahoo Warns Facebook of a Potential Patent Fight The Mounting Minuses at Google+ 'The Free Internet Act' Emerges As Redditors Craft SOPA Alternative Audible Book of the Week The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg Musical Interlude #1 Hot Topic Interview with top Reddit users ViolentAcrez, AndrewSmith1986 & Saydrah The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Sign up here to be alerted by SMS when the podcast is live!