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has anyone ever heard of the dirty.com? i just heard of it a few days ago. apparantly it's a website that people can post pictures of a person they dont like and just post crap about them. so it's basically like a big burn book. and other people can jump in as well. when i heard of this i got so mad, i mean really? what kind of world are we living in, this is how people kill themselves! i visited the site the other day and i felt like it just violated people. it was distugting. i'm not sure if this site is around the world i think its just in america but im not for sure. im suprised the goverenment hasnt took it down yet and im really suprised the owner of this site hasnt been arrested.

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The government is too busy shutting down Megaupload that's why. I didn't know of this site, i tried searching it but all i got was a porn site :P

But seriously it's really stupid and immature. I upsets me that people don't understand how much harm you can actually cause by doing this. People nowadays like to cause pain, they find it funny bashing someone/lying about someone because they know they can hide behind the anonymity of the internet.

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I have never heard of the site but it sounds awful. If its an american sight the govt. Won't shut it down unless something really bad happens. If the govt. Shuts it down people will complain about free speech. The person who started it won't get arrested for the same reason. However, I agree that this is one of those things that causes suicide. Unfortunately something like that would have to happen for the govt. to take action. The world is just so insane. People just want to hate and gossip. It makes me so sad.

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I've never heard of the site to be honest, and I'm glad I haven't. It just upsets me that people would go this far just because they dislike someone. This sort of site should really get taken down. Especially if it's teenagers posting on the site, since I'd like to think that teachers/principals would get notified about this. It's almost like Formspring, but worse, where people can send anonymous hate to other people. It's like you can't go anywhere without some sort of harassment online.

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The government is too busy shutting down Megaupload that's why. I didn't know of this site, i tried searching it but all i got was a porn site :P

But seriously it's really stupid and immature. I upsets me that people don't understand how much harm you can actually cause by doing this. People nowadays like to cause pain, they find it funny bashing someone/lying about someone because they know they can hide behind the anonymity of the internet.

 

it's thedirty.com all in one word if you didnt try it like that

and ari has a point about free speech, but im sure its harming people maybe the gov hasnt heard of it yet?

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It's almost like Formspring, but worse, where people can send anonymous hate to other people. It's like you can't go anywhere without some sort of harassment online.

In all these sites like formspring or tumblr you have the option to turn anon off so you kind off prevent this anon hate. I've seen people crying over how they can't handle the anon hate they keep getting, when they can simply turn anon off. But this site is way worse i mean most people i asked they didn't even know it. A hatefull person can just post your picture or your whole name even and start bashing you out of nowhere? Seems scary and upseting >.<

 

it's thedirty.com all in one word if you didnt try it like that

and ari has a point about free speech, but im sure its harming people maybe the gov hasnt heard of it yet?

I don't know what the gvmt is doing nowadays. And even if they shut it down, another similar one will be made shortly after. People just love these kind of things and that's the saddest thing.

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The govt. isn't going to shut it down. Yes, its awful but do to free speech it just wont happen. I checked out the sight and honestly it doesn't seem like the hugest deal. It's gross and I hate that it exists. But, it's some lame guy running it and pathetic people posting. Plus it doesn't seem to be a very popular site. People blog about everything these days. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 20 more sited like this. Its sucks, but its going to happen. People are going to continue to write nasty things on the internet as long as we have free speech. I think the people who are going on that site are pathetic. But, I don't think that anything is really going to happen. Most of the people posting on there are posting about adults. That is a big detail. If it were 12 or 13 year old girls bashing each other I would be more concerned. But, this seems to be mostly older people. In which case I honestly believe the risk is lower. The second younger age gets involved in it, then I think action should be taken.

 

What grosses me out the most though is the guy who runs it. I think its a guy I am not sure though lol. Pretty much people write to him how disgusted they are by people and then he responds. Who is this guy?? Why on Earth do people think his opinion is important? What he says is gross. I can't imagine he is anything but gross in real life too. The whole site didn't make me mad at the people posting. Because honestly we all can think of a person or two that we would can't stand and complain about. I understand it, even though I would never do it. But, this guy! Who does that? Who sets up a site for people to bash other people and responds to there bashing? Half the time when some girl complains about a slut he responds with,"Oh whats her name?" or "How can I get in touch with her?" That's what makes me angry. This guy is horrible. The site is horrible too. But, the stuff on this site is going to happen somewhere else and probably is. What this guy is doing and how he acts, it makes my skin crawl!

 

But, again the Govt. isnt going to do anything about it. Just like haven't with all the sites that have caused actual incidents.

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Apparently it exists here in France too, but that kind of sites is illegal here I believe, because yes, on a side you have freedom of speech. But on the other side, this site is simply defamatory (and in a very rude way). I reckon this is a major difference between the USA and France : you let things go because to you, freedom of speech has almost no limits (I by things I mean it can be racist, or homophobic words). We TRY to apply "your freedom stops when your neighbour's begins".

 

It's hard, though, to define this limit (well, sometimes it's not, it's obvious that you can't call someone names, to me at least), and I'm not saying we have the right way to proceed. It's just that, as a French girl, I am sometimes surprised to hear that someone who said racist things to someone else is discharged in the name of freedom of speech. It distorts this concept in my opinion, because it wasn't made to allow people to be mean to their fellows but to make sure all opinions (especially in politics, religion...) would be represented and that paople wouldn't be threatened just by expressing them.

 

Well, I'm a bit out of the subject but I add that I know a guy who likes informatics and who made a site where you could gossip and criticize people from his former high school (it was stupid in my opinion but my boyfriend was just impressed about the way he made it <_< ), and he had to remove it quickly because he was about to get in trouble with our justice system.

 

Anyway, it makes me sad to see that some guys don't have better things to do than saying awful things about people they don't even know in some cases. I mean, what's the point ?

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"On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts. Of kindness and of love."

 

This website seems to encourage the complete opposite and therefore to me represents the worst in people. Just my own humble opinion.

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The govt. isn't going to shut it down. Yes, its awful but do to free speech it just wont happen. I checked out the sight and honestly it doesn't seem like the hugest deal. It's gross and I hate that it exists. But, it's some lame guy running it and pathetic people posting. Plus it doesn't seem to be a very popular site. People blog about everything these days. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 20 more sited like this. Its sucks, but its going to happen. People are going to continue to write nasty things on the internet as long as we have free speech. I think the people who are going on that site are pathetic. But, I don't think that anything is really going to happen. Most of the people posting on there are posting about adults. That is a big detail. If it were 12 or 13 year old girls bashing each other I would be more concerned. But, this seems to be mostly older people. In which case I honestly believe the risk is lower. The second younger age gets involved in it, then I think action should be taken.

 

What grosses me out the most though is the guy who runs it. I think its a guy I am not sure though lol. Pretty much people write to him how disgusted they are by people and then he responds. Who is this guy?? Why on Earth do people think his opinion is important? What he says is gross. I can't imagine he is anything but gross in real life too. The whole site didn't make me mad at the people posting. Because honestly we all can think of a person or two that we would can't stand and complain about. I understand it, even though I would never do it. But, this guy! Who does that? Who sets up a site for people to bash other people and responds to there bashing? Half the time when some girl complains about a slut he responds with,"Oh whats her name?" or "How can I get in touch with her?" That's what makes me angry. This guy is horrible. The site is horrible too. But, the stuff on this site is going to happen somewhere else and probably is. What this guy is doing and how he acts, it makes my skin crawl!

 

But, again the Govt. isnt going to do anything about it. Just like haven't with all the sites that have caused actual incidents.

 

they call the guy like niki or something and he's dumb. one of my friends got put up on here and he told niki to take it down and niki's response was "i might take it down" but he never did.

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they call the guy like niki or something and he's dumb. one of my friends got put up on here and he told niki to take it down and niki's response was "i might take it down" but he never did.

 

He is pathetic. He makes my skin crawl. I couldn't think lower of him. Yuck.

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As Arie stated earlier, legally (at least in the United States), it's okay for a site like this to exist. To be honest (again within the US, it might be different in other states) this doesn't violate criminal law therefore its existence is only to the discretion of the users and visitors. It's no different than someone badmouthing someone they don't like behind their backs to other people.

 

If you have a problem with it, you can sue for libel in a civil court if it satisfies 3 parameters: 1) it degrades your image, 2) untrue [at least to the one communicating it], and 3) communicated to a third party. You can sue for the amount of physical damages and psychological damage caused. Criminal courts have no jurisdiction over matters like this so don't bother complaining why the government doesn't step in. It's the First Amendment. Again if you don't like it, sue; or better yet, don't visit it. Words can kill more people than any army could so don't feed it if you disagree with it.

 

Do I agree with it? No. But I reiterate that it's no different than simple gossip that's done everyday and I'm sure everyone's guilty.

 

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About the whole facemash thing. FaceMash and FaceBook are two totally different ideas. The only similarities being that Zuckerberg used some of the coding from FaceMash onto FaceBook.

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