craigslist gone wrong
That “internet scandal” I mentioned yesterday? Entirely different from the cheater website Samantha linked a couple days ago. So many internets in Seattle, so many possibilities for scandal. I think we need to hear a lot more about it:
… [Jason Fortuny , a Seattle web developer] took the text and photo from a sexually explicit ad in another area, reposted it to Craigslist Seattle, and waited for the responses to roll in. … “178 responses, with 145 photos of men in various states of undress. Responses include full e-mail addresses (both personal and business addresses), names, and in some cases IM screen names and telephone numbers.” In a staggering move, he then published every single response, unedited and uncensored, with all photos and personal information to Encyclopedia Dramatica … [waxy]
The story gets all the more twisted when you add in the LiveJournal element, in which local commenters did their best to identify respondents using the photos and personal information they sent in to score with the semi-fictional lady. The whole thing is so mind-blowingly surprising and awful [yet not actually shocking at all, which is the sad part -- it's the internet, what else should you expect? people are jerks.] that I’ll leave it to the hoax’s perpetrator for the last word: “This may also be the lowest thing I have ever done as well. [rfjason.lj (NSFW)]“
The curious can find the full experiment of RFJason on Encyclopedia Dramatica, at the RFJason CL Experiment.
I find it humorous that since all of this has hit the news, Jason has been scrambling removing as much personal information as possible and moving as much “evidence” as he can.
For someone who things life “isn’t fair” and who thinks he can get away with everything, this must have him really worried for him to be doing this.
At least it shows he is worrying about it. Serves him right. And hey! If he loses his job and everything he has in civil suits, it just show him that “life isn’t fair” (as he put it to one of his victims).
Actions have consequences and Jason thought his keyboard/his computer and the internet would protect him. This is real life and those were real people. Something Jason is learning the hard way.
Something that someone 30+ years old should know by that age.