Seattlest: Violet Blue On The "Craigslist Experiment"

BB

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:31:48 -0800

Well all this talk of privacy makes me wonder about the irony of me hitting a link to this site to find a known spyware attempting to download on my harddrive... wtf

sexy American

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:39:51 -0800

ALL you people who are laying blame on Jason are sick, hiding, and lying. Jason exposed the TRUTH. --SA And that's why he pulled all of his personal info from his site after the story broke? I'd say that's more "hiding" than "TRUTH".

Sick Americans

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:02 -0800

The responses I see about this whole topic make me so sad for the state of people in the US. The news media is spinning this a "sexy" ad. ALL you people who are laying blame on Jason are sick, hiding, and lying. Jason exposed the TRUTH. How can you compare PHYSICALLY ABUSING women with the emotional discomfort of having the TRUTH revealed? Did you rad the post? Go read the replies. These people who replied are sick and twisted. Saying it's "consenting adults" does not apply when the real tenor of the desired interaction is simply sexual abuse. Jason is a prankster who wanted to see sick people exposed for what they are. He's not an angel by any means - but put the discussion on where it really belongs: WHY ARE 178 SEATTLE Men TRYING TO BEAT UP a 27yo WOMAN??? Answer: Sex relations in the US are seriously fucked up. GROW UP AMERICANS - TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS. If you are doing things you don't want exposed, stop doing them.

penguin

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:45:55 -0800

I think it's clear what happened. A lonely young man, curious about how it would feel to be a weak, defenseless woman dominated by strong and assertive males, posts an anonymous ad and initiates correspondence where he can explore this fantasy. Lot of men show him an interest, but although he enjoys their attention he knows they are only interested in the person he pretends to be, and would like to be, but not in him as he really is. So he starts to feel rejected and angry, and with the vindictiveness of a false woman scorned, he takes his revenge by stripping these unfortunate men of their privacy, naively thinking that by humiliating them and gloating over his betrayal, his true feelings will be hidden behind a posture of self-righteous moralism. His greatest fear is to be exposed and ridiculed, so as a defense strategy he himself exposes and ridicules those whose affection is denied to him by the cruelty of being born not a weak woman, but a weak male.

DB

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:42:35 -0800

I would rather have a few perverts running around than a low-life snitch like Jason Fortuny. Society does not get helped by destroying peoples lives.

Startoony

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:38:29 -0800

http://clexperiments.blogspot.com/

Dan

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:58:32 -0800

It seems rather suspicious that one of the victims of his prank happens to be the spouse of person who banned him from lj seattle. That does seem oddly fortuitous, doesn't it? Maybe they knew what kind of ad he generally responded to and were fishing for him specifically?

Pelt

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:18:07 -0800

I hear there's a pool to see when this guys is gonna get shot in the face. It seems rather suspicious that one of the victims of his prank happens to be the spouse of person who banned him from lj seattle. It would be pretty easy to add a fake response to implicate an enemy or enemy's husband.

dead nancy

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:11:46 -0800

DC: i'd say he'd be lucky if he ONLY gets a couple broken kneecaps considering his hypocritical post-prank attempts to scrub his own personal data from the web have been largely unsuccessful. everyone and their mothers are publishing same data in the spirit of turnabout being fair play, and it takes about five minutes of searching to get this loser's photos, phone number, address, job history and so on. if one in ten of his 'perverts' decides to look for a little payback, there'll be an angry mob of people who use violence as recreation looking for him. heck, i think he deserves a few broken fingers based on his ridiculously smug MySpace account alone...

DC

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:46:44 -0800

No.. not in that way that the responders to the ad wanted. I think that Jason Fortuny is a tool and I'm pretty sure he's going to get what is coming to him. He violated privacy laws because the people responding to the ads had a clear expectation of privacy. They thought they were legitimately responding to a woman looking for sex - nothing new there. Since the identities of the responders is of no viable interest to the public (they weren't breaking the law), anything personally identifying them in relation to the "experiment" is pointless - other than to humiliate them (or worse) for Fortuny's personal amusement. This guy is a sociopath and will be lucky if he doesn't end up with a few broken knee caps from people who's life he ruins. I'm not advocating that, but hey, I would understand.

Royal

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:49:48 -0800

It's nice to see Seattlest's little corner of the world wide interweb getting mentioned on the much wider-read Boing Boing. Congrats!

jason

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:02:25 -0800

"narcissistic sociopath" has it just about nailed. the day he was banned from the lj seattle community was a good one. if he does end up getting sued, he only brought it on himself for trying to be clever.