I will have to disagree with you. He has actively been deleting things from his live journal. I and others have made comments that were not to his liking which he has since removed. Why remove them if he truly doesn’t care?

Regardless, he posted public information and nudes without the permission of those people, which could get him sued easily. Also, does he have PROOF that these people are legal as per 18 USC 2257? I somehow doubt that which could realistically land him in legal trouble with the government if they really want to burn him.

If I were his current employer, I would have to put my customers’ interest as well as other employees’ concerns at the head of my list and consider his termination. He would at least be put on notice in every way legally.

Jackson above has summed it up well. As a customer, if I were doing business with anyone who I thought would have him as an employee, I would re-consider my business with said company pending his termination.

If he had “outted” people with faces blurred and tried to obscure the e-mail addresses, it would have been funny. Just because these people are into something sexual that others here may not be into, doesn’t make them freaks. I am sure we all have something we like/do that others would point fingers at and scream.

Where civil liability is concerned, I guess we will see once people he “outted” start divorcing or losing the jobs or being publicly ostracized, etc.

Jacqueline: All I can say is that he chose to do what he did. Pending any legal fallout (or otherwise), I can not say I will feel sorry for him. Sure it sucks he supposedly had it bad (assuming of course all he has posted and tells you is truth) childhood, but that is not a carte blanch to do what he feels without repercussion.

Behind those keyboards and postings are people (regardless of how stupid it was to send the information/pics), with real lives and real jobs and real families.

Actions have consequences. Time for Jason to pay the piper.

fortuny is an idjit, the horny dupes are idjits.

but the most idjiotic thing i see is the perpetual wish of hetero guys that there are hot young hetero girls out there salivating at the idea of sucking their penises.

these girls simply do not exist. and where they do, they are not advertising their existence online. why? first of all, cuz they don’t have to!!!

freakin idjits!

As for people who answered the post, I would have hoped that they would have made better choices in terms of what information to give out and when. If the internet has taught us nothing else, it has taught us the importance of maintaining our privacy. Plus, it’s not exactly hard to take the extra precaution. There is a site out there SPECIFICALLY for people responding to classified ads.It’s called MyAdBox.com. It gives you a private, anonymous and disposable phone number and email address. It’s easy and it’s affordable and most importantly, if they had used it, some of those people would not need to kick themselves today.

No matter his bizarre personal life….he’s done some good.

That’s a stunning rationalization of a “prank” that could cause serious loss of jobs, friends and public reputation to those individuals and their families to boot. You can talk all you want about how these people were dumb to give out this info, and none of it provides any moral justification whatsoever for this worthless piece of s**t specifically choosing to use said info in such a sadistic manner. Yes, I WILL call him sociopathic, particularly in light of his responses when people called him on it. This was not the action of someone remotely capable of empathy. “Sweet guy” my ass. The bright side is that he’s likely to have seriously damaged his own career as well.

He is probably a homosexual but doesn’t know it yet.

Back off! Is this coming from the same line of homophobic theorising that has no basis in fact yet claims every mass murderer, sociopath and dictator has queer leanings? Get real! We (that is, gay people) are as likely to run the range of human behaviours and personalities as anyone else - from boring and mundane through to exciting and eccentric. And whatever you do, don’t try to link a man rapidly becoming the most infamous figure in Internet history with the gay community.

You clearly have little concept of how gay people behave, and forget or choose to ignore the fact that we have taste and often a greater sense of decency than many - especially creeps like Fortuny, who’s got a big, nasty surprise coming his way.

Oh, and if he ends up in prison - the ones violating his backside won’t, for the record, be gay. They’ll be heterosexual, and violent. That’s all.

Why all the internet trollery and pranks? Lots of free time, low boredom threshhold. He enjoys pushing buttons to see how people respond. Not the most mature of hobbies, yes, but the people who respond to his pranks are the ones responsible for their emotions and reactions, not him.

I’m not defending his latest stunt — I do think that he crossed the line a bit this time — but it’s not the OMG MOST EVIL THING EVER that people are making it out to me, nor does it mean he’s a sociopath or any of the other things people have called him. I’m rolling my eyes a bit at his antics but am still proud to be his friend.

10 Zen ur head.
Shaking ur psycho boy tree.

demure wrote:
Sep. 9th, 2006 04:53 pm (UTC)
We were bored talking on AIM one night, I sent him a few different ad links because I thought they were funny, and he said we should repost one and see what kind of responses we got. The ad was so unreal, I thought (and I think he’s with me on this) that no one would believe it. But oh boy, did they. He put all the responses up on his site, but it killed his server. It got picked up by encyclopedia dramatica and many lulz ensued.

Death threat, karma warnings, and e-lawsuits abound.

Like either Jason or myself ever had any doubts about our sense of humor being twisted.

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And now he’s trying to get rid of some of the stuff on his journal, as if that will do any good. I like to imagine the feeling in his stomach as he realized this was getting out of hand. A+ lulz, as they say.

And that’s news, Lou? Jeepers.

Monty Burns is right - the only people surprised or shocked by Fortuny’s stunt are the utopian bedwetters. Welcome to the real world, guys.

he’s physically incapable of “sexual function” and then makes a concerted effort to hurt people are are sexually active.

wow. big shock there. a jealous pathetic weasel who can’t get it up any more, and lashes out at those who can.

No shit. This guy’s about as comical as a dead man walking, with the potentially true-to-life situation to match. In any case, he’s decimated any chance at ever continuing within the IT industry (where most Google their potential employees beforehand), and it’s (at least) my hope that his clients leave in droves. This guy cannot even be trusted with two tin cans and a string, much less anyone’s data. One has to wonder if anyone’s already emailed this guy’s clients from the Google/Yahoo cache to inform them of the severity of his actions.

On his superiority, he claims to be an “objectivist”; I can tell you without a doubt that any objectivist would throw this man curbside on his ass and disavow all existence of the asshole. The guy’s about as “A is A” as any typical sociopath out there — read, “not at all”. Fortuny’s “A” stands for “arbitrary.”

The difference between genius and outright stupidity is calculated outcome, and it appears that Jason Fortuny, in his attempt to become ubermensch for the “asshole and proud” crowd, forgot to cover his very own ass. The only thing this guy seems intelligent at is proving (to everyone but the needy sheeple losers he hangs with) just how much of a worthless slab of flesh he is.

To be honest, his revealings on LJ matter little. If one cannot trust him in the first place, one cannot place excessive weight on anything the guy says. What does matter is that if these purported facts are true, the guy seriosuly needs institutionalization for the interim; regardless, I support the idea he should be excoriated in as public a forum as he did to others.

To those who view rfj as some sort of internet hero or vigilante give your head a shake and look at him for what he really is. A one trick pony who after trying all sorts of other online gimmicks to piss people off he finally found one that will provide his 15 minutes of fame. His utter lack of character or morality can only be explained by the perverse mix of narcissism and latent self loathing that is Jason Fortuny.

Before he pulled his rfjason.com site I had to laugh over the self professed comparison to Ferris Beuller and Alan Shore. Just a helpful suggestion to rfj, even if you were as cool as either of those two, to say it yourself makes it oh so lame.