Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web

[chaya]

Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on Gchat, that I had uncovered his identity as the notorious internet troll Violentacrez (pronounced Violent-Acres

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[angry_chick]

I hope his livelihood is smashed.

People need to learn accountability for what they say online.

[angry_chick]

I also suggest to people to read some of the comments on that entry. While there are a sprinkling of comments that suck, in general, the comments on that entry are Fucking-A AWESOME.

[skizzylizard]

Seconding this

[crossfire]

Holy SHIT some of those are brilliant.

I never thought of trolling as an exercise in privilege before. That's...revelatory.

[fickery]

Same. Grossed out (but not surprised) by all the people still defending him and bleating about "but free speech!" in the comments.