I do love that Anonymous is freaking out over being tied in with 4chan. All the news outlets are calling 4chan an anonymous-based site and Anonymous is like "Woah. We are in NO WAY related to 4chan"

i just wanna pull it up on a chart and silently circle it with a highlighter for an hour until they Get It

Time for this again.

One of the smaller (but I think still important) issues here is how our laws still have no idea how to deal with digital content in a coherent manner. If Jackass A broke into Jennifer Lawrence's house, stole a physical photo album and then gave it to Jackass B, A would clearly be guilty of burglary and B would be…

AND POOF, IT'S A REALITY

Oh that's how that works? Sweet.

You see this all the time on game message boards. "What do you mean, my character named OsamasThrobbinDickCheese is inappropriate!? Freedom of speech! I thought this game was for adults! Why can't I call people festering cuntwaffles when they beat me?! How dare you ban me!!"

This! A bazillion times over. Freedom of Speech! I just don't understand people who participate in illegally obtained information or pictures by viewing them and then redistributing it using the Freedom of speech argument. And why are they being prosecuted? Find their fucking sorry asses! And those who have…

How can someone hate something so much and then jack off to it?

That's the thing. When I was younger, I used to think that guys who used those sites, purveyed beastiality/hardcore rape porn, trolled, etc. were just gross. Now that I'm an adult, I realize that it's actually terrifying that guys like that exist.

Oh don't get me started on the goddamned mothers and all these self-hating hags that raise women to hate themselves, and raise men to be total controlling sexist jerks. My country is full of the typical sexist asshole mothers "virgin until marriage, get married before 30, have babies immediately, don't neglect your…

...wank with one hand, point and condemn with the other.

As I like to say, people like to wank with one hand and point and condemn with the other.

The worst ones are those who are taught this by their own Goddamn mothers. My mother-in-law is one of those hardcore anti-feminists, and I have no clue how my husband emerged unscathed. That's why groups like Women Against Feminism bother me - they are raising/going to be raising a generation of men to not respect…

The closest I've seen is "porn search history." It's not a parallel situation by a good stretch, but it might generate the spark of empathy you're talking about in some who aren't too far gone.

I went over to 4chan this weekend to see what the hell 4chan even is and was so disgusted by the way they talked about the celebrities. They would say how stupid the celebrity is for taking a picture of themselves, how slutty they are, and how they deserve it. Then follow all this by saying how much they're going to…

the BEEEEST part was they kept quoting themselves/their own comments as like...idk validation for their argument? which is awesome to know that you can do that and it's perfectly legitimate.

Exactly. We really can't do anything about people who were raised so poorly and ignorantly. These are the men who do the most to repulse women, punish women and then complain that women are bitches and feminazis ruin everything.

Yeah, there are a LOT of folks who seem to think that "free speech" means that you are legally obligated to say every foolish thing that comes into your stupid skull.

That's one of the aspects that frustrates me so much. Like with street harassment, there's no way to reframe the situation to make these people find a little empathy, even just in a theoretical conversation. If it was their mom or sister or daughter, they'd think she was a slut who deserved it for having a naked…