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goobster · 1128 days ago · link · · parent · post: "He hated the internet, the internet hated him back, and it's not clear anyone has learned anything from what he helped unleash."
SomethingAwful was spawned out of the frothing outrage internet trolls when my fri-- acquaintance - put some mild limits on what could be posted to his site, Rotten.com. Rotten.com really was the genesis of the worst of the internet tendencies. Photos of death and twisted porn. Chats meant to be nothing other than shocking. Normalizing - and desensitizing - young white men to abusing everyone in the worst ways. Such a shitty human being. But his point was, "If I don't do it, someone else will. And at least I'm getting rich off it." He hid out in Budapest for a while, and then disappeared. (Thankfully.)