EDIT: Just hit me; anyone remember r/CuteFemaleCorpses? Remember how that was, like, a known thing for months? Remember how they tried to defend people uploading photos of dead women to their service with that "every man is responsible for his own soul" stuff?
Whenever I'm in danger for holding pity to the botted, astroturfed, horribly moderated and corporatized bloatware that nuReddit has become, I just remember how rabidly they defended Violentacrez by feeling entitled to spaces like r/picsofdeadjailbait, r/creepshot, etc. and the other dozens of borderline or outright illegal porn communities he fostered and curated (he also was a powermod with hundreds of other communities, but as long as his interests are based it's okay to be a loser janny). This was a guy who trawled Facebook and 4chan for photos of minors and other unsuspecting women, whether from their own profile or just because they were photographed in someone else's post, and put them on porn reddits with new titles, etc. After getting exposed for being the exact kind of fat, fuck-ugly 50-year-old nerd you would expect to watch over and create content for these communities, he even had multiple interviews where he outright said that invisible upvotes were his greatest pride in life (this was a man who was married, to a disabled woman no less, with a child), blamed Reddit for most of what happened and then undercut any of the lukewarm accountability he did try to take by making new accounts to circumvent his ban and then bitched and whined that what happened to him was unfair.
At the time of his ban, and even to this day, you'll get tons of redditors bemoaning that the Violentacrez era was the last time Reddit was good, that he shouldn't have been banned because "well he tried to get rid of the actual CP" (even though he deliberately built communities that invited and catered to pedophiles by giving sexual titles to photos of minors), "he drove so much (pedophile) traffic for Reddit!!!," "I care most about free speech when it involves dead jailbait," and my personal favorite, "He's totally just a conduit to expose the dark underbelly of humanity, he could be any one of us and that's fucked up and awesome" as though a lardass neckbeard stammering to explain to Anderson fucking Cooper why it's not fucked up to collect photos of teen girls at the beach and brutally beaten women.
In response to the interviews, most redditors weren't even mad that they realized this middle-aged fuckwit sociopath was among them on a site built for teen boys and college kids, they were just mad he was TOO (faux-)apologetic and didn't own what he did enough. They wanted him to be a "good ambassador for the wild west of Reddit" and be completely proud and relaxed about this. They were deadass asking "well where does one draw the line between a free speech and intolerance? Only context puts a difference between a family photo of a beach bonfire that includes a junior high girl in a bikini and a Reddit post from a greasy fortysomething titled 'she's too young for dem titties, so the latter should be OK.'" Gawker was always trash but I hardly see how they were the villain in this one for exposing him. They wanted Gawker shut down for this alone AND considered anyone who "threw Violentacrez under the bus" to be "fascists."
It's what I learned to hate about Reddit-tier lolbertarians, one has to realize they absolutely view the ability to share e.g. a photo of you after getting raped and beaten by a domestic partner as being on the same tier as protesting in Tiananmen Square.
