Cenk Uygur
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Top Reddit Troll Identified, Fired IRL
Posted
October 17, 2012
Views
74,323
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1,339
Comments
965
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October 17, 2012
74,323
1,339
965
3.10%
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4:22Now Playing"Michael Brutsch, 49, from Texas, was Violentacrez on social news website Reddit, who specialised in uploading images of scantily-clad women taken covertly - many of them under age girls. He was also responsible for the distribution of reams of incestuous, racist, and sexually violent material in other Reddit forums, or "subreddits" as they are known.
Brutsch was outed by Gawker journalist Adrian Chen, and shut down his Violentacrez username but continued to use his "clean" Reddit handle, mbrutsch, to offer updates on the fallout.
"I got fired Saturday morning, by phone," he posted."* Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (Host of TYT University) break down anonymity on the web, and whether or not it's fair to expose an exposer.
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