What is Digg?494 Comments
- fober, on 10/11/2007, -8/+702This must be the first time a camcorder ruins someone's life on the internet without an actual video circulating.
- hansblix, on 10/11/2007, -14/+391"The World Wide Web has become her personal prison."
Her soul has been bound to the internet for all eternity. - canewediggit, on 10/11/2007, -8/+252common sense? please, we prefer gratuitous over reaction without factual evidence. this is digg.
- z00k, on 10/11/2007, -76/+315That bitch seriously better get what she deserves. I back the guy 100% on this.
All he wants is his damn camera, Just ***** give it to him and apologize. - klick37, on 10/11/2007, -32/+258Incorrect, this is not Digg. Recent studies have shown that this is, indeed, Sparta.
Spartan woman are strong, she clearly doesn't belong. - bigfkncee, on 10/11/2007, -6/+227the original story on digg
http://www.digg.com/videos/people/My_2000_camcorder_was_stolen_and_I_know_who_took_it_Help_get_it_back - mongrel, on 10/11/2007, -88/+287Boo-friggin-hoo - give the man his damn camera back (or buy him a new one as you probably sold it), and it will circulate just as quickly that the situation is cleared up.
- moshinator, on 10/11/2007, -40/+237It's so funny how they make the girl seem like the good person here. Ahh the power of press shows it's face once again.
- JCSaint, on 10/11/2007, -10/+190The people who really deserve to be punished are whoever sent her death threats. Jesus people, wtf?
- ch4os1337, on 10/11/2007, -42/+222shes just trying to get out of it by turning it against him.. sneaky sneaky
- Ifishbein, on 10/11/2007, -25/+196I will never use the power of digg for evil!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+160And here's his update: http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Warning_Felony_for_submitting_a_Digg_story
- crazybrit, on 10/11/2007, -34/+175comment from the original story:
"This is truly psychotic. Call the police if you really have a case.
So we've finally reached a point where stalkers have become too lazy to even do the stalking themselves. Outsourcing has hit every industry, I suppose."
I'm surprised it got so many diggs, and that people actually harassed her. People on the internet make me sad. - Kniggit, on 10/11/2007, -24/+166Hey Housedigga, you could've at least said that pic is NSFW. Prick.
- SnuKs, on 10/11/2007, -7/+120I get disappointed in the digg community when ***** like this happens. Digg has a BIG mob mentality. When one person sreams "lynch him!" a lot of users here follow.
Get a ***** brain people. DEATH threats to her? C'mon. If you had any common sense you'd know that was crossing the line. - breaker01, on 10/11/2007, -19/+114Instead of 'living in fear' of internet nerds, why doesn't she just get a new email address, a new AIM handle, and change her phone number?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -31/+125The thief deserves prison time for the theft. The "victim" deserves prison time for trying to get thousands of people to harass and stalk the thief.
Both are low-life *****, and both deserve exactly what's coming to them. I have zero sympathy for any of them. And to the rest of you, those who participated in this guy's vigilante harassment campaign, you are all pricks. - kevinmotel, on 10/11/2007, -6/+85"Brunzell has even received phone calls from as far as Ireland, and every time she receives a new e-mail there is more fear."
Ireland, is that you?
http://www.digg.com/users/Ireland/profile - daftman, on 10/11/2007, -14/+88What the *****?
Since when did Digg becomes a place to put other people on public trial, and judge them?
I thought trial by media is bad until this. Trial by a bunch of forum readers.
What happen to innocent until proven guilty?
You all heard 1 side of the story, from some ***** who probably have a personal agenda against the woman. If the authorities can't find her guilty who the ***** do you think you are by claiming you can. For all I know you can be manipulated because what you see is what he want you to see.
As far the idiot who said that people have to change their number to prevent from being harassed, why should she? WHy should she give up her personal freedom when a bunch of ***** on digg decide to harassed her.
Put yourself in her shoe and see how you would feel when someone start to give out your personal details and ask millions of people to harass you without giving you opportunities to defend yourself.
You diggers should grow the ***** up and realize that unlike this virtual bubble you live in, anarchy in the real world doesn't work. The fact that you sit behind a keyboard doesn't mean that you cannot be part of the mob mentality. - webcrunch, on 10/11/2007, -15/+87I wonder what would happen now if someone now makes public they guy's email address and phone number.
- Sun.Surfin, on 10/11/2007, -9/+76I agree completely with you, Mathiasdm.
This entire story has been a joke on Digg; seeing how many kids ran to their phones and email accounts to harass somebody is unbelievable. How did you all know that "Phillip" was telling the truth? You obviously didn't, yet you still decided to screw somebody's day up. People may mock Amanda saying "wahhhhh, mai life iz overz cuz i gots ciberbuliexdz!" but I doubt that you'd be laughing if it happened to you. Imagine coming home to see people trying to get in to your house. Imagine coming home to see your internet accoutns hacked, as well as tons of death threats over email and the phone. It isn't funny at all - it's incredibly idiotic.
This Digg story is the prime example of the problems of internet anonymity. People act before thinking, and they end up making fools of themselves. Well done, to all of you users that give Digg a bad reputation. Well. Done. . - cawpin, on 10/11/2007, -13/+81"Do you work in a monastery or something?"
Do you work in a whore house? There is no question that is NSFW. It will get you fired at most places. - noch, on 10/11/2007, -66/+128its nice you're all assuming the guy isnt full of ***** and she does have his camera when its not been proven neither is the truth.
the guy who put her number and email is a jackass.
oh and congrats, you're all gullible fools. drink cyanide. - banthis, on 10/11/2007, -40/+97Here's my freedom of speech..
Bitch, shut up! :P - loganhid, on 10/11/2007, -15/+65stealing is bad M'kay
- DiggsOnlyNeoCon, on 10/11/2007, -17/+65It's not "some stranger" simply making fun of her. It's a bunch of Digg idiots threatening her.
- pathy, on 10/11/2007, -18/+60Do you honestly think that's the only information of hers that's out now?
There were naked pictures of her going through the threads. Sorry, but no, this guy has seriously ***** this woman over.
She may or may not have stolen his camera - his reaction either way was ***** stupid. - MadNuke, on 10/11/2007, -14/+54I Instant Messaged her when the original video circulated; she told me she never stole the camera and that Phil was simply using the internet to get back at her for something. She seemed very distressed and I felt horrible for harassing her; I'm not sure what made me believe her story over Philip's [the guy who claimed she stole his camera].
In my defense, I never threatened her in any way. - nyx210, on 10/11/2007, -11/+46If some guy were giving away your personal information to people that you didn't know at all, wouldn't you be somewhat concerned? What if you started to receive death threats? There are some real psychos on the net that will do anything to try and lookup your street address, personal photos, etc. IMO, it would be pretty stupid just to simply blow that kind of thing off without calling the cops.
- sbader, on 10/11/2007, -11/+46what happened to innocent till proven guilty?
- BlackSheep720, on 10/11/2007, -13/+47i think that would be a better punishment for him than 4 years prison time
- fkr3, on 10/11/2007, -7/+40One day, digg users will be accountable for their actions. You can't form a mob and attack people (or websites) because you decide they're guilty of something.
The guy who incited the digglettes is going to prison and he should be made a 'sticky' on the frontpage of digg to remind you guys that there are consequences in real life, and what you do on the internet isn't exempt. - 1jaxstate1, on 10/11/2007, -27/+59Switch ISP's, get new email addy's, send new info to friends, end of story. Should take 4 days at the most. Sheesh. Oh yeah, stop ***** stealing.
- maffiou, on 10/11/2007, -8/+40Because she advertised it for sale almost immediately after ?
- insomniacal, on 10/11/2007, -6/+35This story is a horrible black eye on the face of Digg. Who cares about the man, the woman, the camera. Who even cares what was Dugg when. The fact is that the larger world, which has still never heard of Digg, is getting word that Digg users are a horde of harassers -- and that speaks volumes.
We all need to think before accepting one person's story as gospel truth enough to get involved in a situation we know nothing about. - norman619, on 10/11/2007, -8/+36@nyx and Patty:
None of the information provided was private. The photos you mentioned came from her own online web photo gallery where she posted them for everyone to see. - Detritus, on 10/11/2007, -29/+57Yea, she's obviously playing up to the "The World Wide Web has become her personal prison." angle this local news hack is trying to frame. It amazes me that Satellite Providers go to such great lengths to promote the availability of the local channels, who watches this tabloid garbage?
I'm sure it would suck if someone posted my information and riled people up at me for something, but this is so over-sensationalized it is hard to muster any sympathy for the "victim" when she's acting like any other CamWhore. - ripstuntz, on 10/11/2007, -52/+77I have a super good idea... disconnect your internet, turn off your cell phone, and do whatever you need to to avoid people harassing you.
Could it really be that devastating? You must have super low self esteem if some stranger making fun of you cuts you that deeply.
This girl needs some serious help. - dime, on 10/11/2007, -8/+32"There were naked pictures of her going through the threads. Sorry, but no, this guy has seriously ***** this woman over. "
Or maybe, you know, don't put naked pictures of yourself on the internet in the first place... - dragonexe, on 10/11/2007, -3/+26I think this is a perfect example of the dangers of vigilante justice and mob mentality. If she did steal the camera and is trying to shut him up by focusing attention on him, of course she deserves it, but we really have no way to be sure other than this guy's word.
People think "boy I'd be pissed if someone took MY camera and denied it!" instead of wondering if she might be in a position where she's been accused of something she didn't do. I suspect if she had been the one to post a story on digg about how someone was trying to rile people up to harass her over something she didn't do, Digg users might have gone after HIM instead. =
Much as I hate to, I think this is one of those cases where its better left in someone's hands other than our own. If the evidence was far more damning, it'd be an entirely different story. - arbulus, on 10/11/2007, -6/+29innocent till proven guilty? where HAVE you been? American's don't do that anymore.
These days it's more: "I don't really care who ACTUALLY did it, as long as SOMEONE gets punished, I'll feel better." - themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -35/+57What a ***** bitch that girl is trying to turn all this around on him. If anything happens to the guy it'll be our job of helping him with an online petition that will gather tons of signatures
- broeks, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22The Grand Rapids Press reads that she is claiming that someone has been parking outside her house.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-36/118234732215860.xml&coll=6
That's either extremely ridiculous and scary, or just paranoia - snlildude87, on 10/11/2007, -15/+34digg me down
- Hour13, on 10/11/2007, -8/+27The people here at digg who threatened her and did all that crap...you are a bunch of *****.
I was here for the story and I couldn't believe how stupid some of you acted. The guy couldn't handle it himself, cried for all of you to help him (omg), and you acted like his little puppet and did what he wanted.
He deserves what he is getting now.
And here you are, saying how wrong she was, but you didn't act any better, did you?
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Let the police take care of it (DUH). - chowderdick, on 10/11/2007, -9/+27People tend to think they're superheros by acting like douchebags on the internet...
- Takfam, on 10/11/2007, -5/+23@jcsaint
Indeed, they need to be punished by their parents because they are most likely 10-12 year olds whose death threats undoubtedly contain the "word" Ki11 and are followed by a plethora of exclamation points. - SnuKs, on 10/11/2007, -24/+41@z00k
The bitch did get what she deserved and YES she should give back the camera! But you know what that guy got what he deserved too. Dumbass didn't play by the laws. If did his homework he'd known that ***** was illegal.
One person who used digg and played by book was that guy who had his Sidekick stolen. Now he played it smart.
To me the punishment doesn't fit the crime. Yea we should give the chick ***** for stealing the carama and demand that give it back, but what happens when she does give it back? She'll still be randomly harassed cause her personal info is out there. Aside from that, there are people on the net that could careless about what she did and just use her info for identity theft purposes that ruin her for the rest of her life.
In the end it's just a case of two idiots. One who can't keep her hand off other peoples *****. The other a dumbass who abused the power of the internet/digg.com - bandarr, on 10/11/2007, -13/+30@ everyone spending time thinking of ways to destroy this woman's life:
1. Lose the death metal t-shirt.
2. Get out of mom's basement.
3. Go outside (wear sunscreen).
3. Get a full-time job.
4. Start talking to people.
5. Integrate with society.
6. Lose the sociopathic personality.
Not necessarily in that order. -
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