How to Shut Down Reddit’s CreepShots Once and for All: Name Names

[Blue_Tires]

A 25-year-old female Redditor has finally come up with a way to beat Reddit's r/CreepShots posters at their own game: compile their personal information and report them to their bosses and local authorities. So far, it's working.

One afternoon in late September, Coweta County Sheriff Investigator Jason Fetner asked Christopher Bailey, a 35-year-old substitute teacher at East Coweta High, to meet with him regarding a school theft. But when Bailey arrived, Fetner told him the real reason for their meeting: he knew that Bailey had been posting photos of his students — "Hot senior girl in one of my classes," read one charming caption — on the subreddit r/CreepShots, some of which had been viewed thousands of times.

Most of Bailey's CreepShots contributions were relatively "innocent" (for example, you couldn't see the senior girl's underwear) and therefore legal, but the content Fetner subsequently found on Bailey's cellphone — including multiple texts and nude photos that he sent to girls as young as 16 — were not, and police are now pursuing charges. But how did Fetner know that the substitute teacher with a clean record was a secret sexual predator? Thanks to a tip from a group of anonymous Redditors who are sick of seeing the CreepShots community gleefully post teen upskirt photo after teen upskirt photo while telling the "internet morality police" to "fuck off" and stop ruining their fun.

Fetner told us that the tipster's anonymity made it extremely difficult for him to convince a judge to sign a search warrant for Bailey — it took "several hours of arguing" before he conceded — but that he sees no real alternative for the time being. "In my personal opinion, not all speech deserves to be protected," he said. "But until the laws in this country catch up to technology, we're going to continue to see these types of problems. There's nothing wrong with people looking out for this sort of thing and taking legal efforts to do something about it."

http://jezebel.com/5949379/naming-names-is-this-the-solution-to-combat-reddits-creepshots?utm_source=deadspin.com&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=recirculation

[redqueen]

1. Excellent.

One down, thousands to go. Hope this gets some serious momentum. Maybe once women start thinking there is a reason to hope for better, we will stop feeling so defeatist. With all the crap that goes on it is awfully easy to feel like giving up.

[joycejnr]

2. "In my personal opinion, not all speech deserves to be protected," he said.

True, at so many levels. Now, when we finally get around to tagging Conservative hate speech and plotting against the middle class and poor as unlawful behavior, we'll be closer to achieving some progress around here that can't help spill over into improvement in our daily lives.

How in the world have we ever come to the point that it is considered an honest argument worthy of debate that the rich should be assisted in their 'trickle-down' activities? How have we come to the point that western economics accepts that delusional theory?

Make a few laws that our Forefathers might have put under the umbrella of 'virtue,' as they defined it, and progress towards their dream of democracy might be achieved after all.

[Blue_Tires]

3. Although Jezebel doesn't say it, Bailey got fired

http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/09-28-2012/coweta-teacher-fired-posting-pics-students-creepshots
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/09/27/high-school-teacher-allegedly-posted-sexual-photos-of-students-o/


And something like this on his record ensures he'll never get hired by any school system again...

[msongs]

4. most schools prohibit posting pics of students on the net - tho many teachers do it anyway

class pics, field trip photos etc. maybe innocent enough but violation of employment terms just the same.
posting pics of somebody else's kids without parent permission is highly unethical in these situations

[seabeyond]

7. that is good to know. though i am sure in the innocence it is broken.

i know the cross country coach and his wife take lots of pictures.

but, yea that the rule can be used for stuff like this when abused.

[ismnotwasm]

5. Sad that its one of the only ways to fight back.

God what an asshole

[Blue_Tires]

11. Doesn't reddit share a lot of the responsibility for even giving this shit a home?

I think they were content to let this continue until one of the mods got outed...

[seabeyond]

6. "internet morality police" to "fuck off" and stop ruining their fun.

where have we heard this garbage before.

i love it. this is exactly what is needed.

what a fuckin creep.

[Dash87]

8. Eww wtf?

This is disgusting. I can't believe there are people defending this too.

[seabeyond]

9. we have walked into a world where a girls sexuality belongs to the world. or all men and boys

but certainly not hers.

[redqueen]

10. ShitRedditSays is banning anyone who supports this.

And mods in reddit's politics channel are deleting any posts from Gawker affiliated websites.

Interesting show of solidarity.