[SnydenBitchy]

Here’s how he deflects blame from redditors onto the victims of their creepy Facebook stalking, Photobucket fuskering, and real-life harassment: “Your kids need to know that any time they take an image and put it in a digital format… they should assume that it is now public content… That’s the useful thing I think CNN could have reported on, instead of making up a bunch of jibber-jabber about reddit.” —Alexis Ohanian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXZYvrue1BE&feature=youtu...

[jedberg]

When someone ships drugs via UPS, do you blame the drug dealer or UPS?

How could reddit possibly have monitored all that content?

Parents need to take more responsibility for the actions of their kids.

[wellhesright]

But what does bad redditors have to do with Ohanian? Are you saying that no one should create something like Reddit because some people who use it will be morally deficient?

Without even looking at the video, as far as that quote goes, taken out of context, he's right. Don't digitise and load stuff onto internet-connected devices without recognising the potential risks. No one is forcing anyone to put things on the web. It's not a regulated or controlled environment by any means. This advice does not only apply to kids. If more businesses and other copyright holders took this counsel more seriously there might be a lot less friction with respect to copyrights and the internet.

[mnicole]

Any communication tool on the internet is guilty of this, you can't seriously blame the medium for the antics of its users. Cyber bullying has always been an issue and the only way to keep yourself entirely safe from it is to not post content you don't want the rest of the world to see.