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comment by forwardslash

Indeed, apparently VA deleted his twitter and facebook accounts as well. And I'm pretty sure Chen has long taken issue with reddit, this is just the latest in his efforts.

e: also, I love some of the headlines of pieces writing about this:

Redditors Stand Up to Gawker to Protect Child Pornography.

Reddit blocks Gawker in defence of its right to be really, really creepy

A bit sensationalized and link-baity, but funny none-the-less.





mk  ·  4424 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I believe that he has a Hubsk account. However, I'm not sure how we might verify it, or that he would like to. But, it would be interesting to get his side of the story.

I don't know... Chen most definitely would be doing serious damage to him, regardless of whether he had deserved any of it or not. I'm just not ok with that.

forwardslash  ·  4424 days ago  ·  link  ·  

FYI, VA clarified a bit more in one of the moderator only subreddits. Gist of it is, he wasn't blackmailed, he doesn't know how Chen got his information, and he's leaving because the admins of reddit "support" (read haven't removed) SRS.

It'll be interesting to see what's actually in Chen's piece, whether it's private information or just a profile on an infamous troll, as Chen said in his emails.