Full title: A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work | Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back

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[–] 68 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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Nope

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Thank you for posting a decent link.

    I'll never understand why humans are so terrible to each other. That poor girl.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    Thank you for posting a decent link.

    To be fair, Wired has been around forever and still one of the last good journalistcic institutions...

    They've just always been heavy handed with paywalls.

    It's always 100% worth the time to find the link for their articles, and most of the time the OP can't use or even provide one depending on community rules.

    It just irks me when people say "paywall" instead of taking the two seconds to find one that works to fix the problem

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Y'know, it's funny, but I can't recall ever having heard even one thing I would consider positive about fraternities in the US, and now I discover them tangled up in this matter too. Why are they allowed to continue to exist, when their whole purpose seems to be manslaughter, rape, defamation, and alcohol abuse?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    They are in large part social clubs for the rich ruling class families to send their kids to in order to gain connections to other rich families. Which explains why they act this way and why the repercussions are so often minimal. There are other types of frats that aren’t exactly like that but this describes the bulk of them

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  • [–] -4 points 1 week ago

    Key words "seems to be". The primary purpose is just to hang out, drink, party, but they also do philanthropy fundraising and community service. But that doesn't make the national news.

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    Wow that's just fucked up. I hate that the likelyhood of them facing any consequences for their actions is slim to none.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Ew why would you post a paywalled link?

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