Where Will Gawker Draw the Line in Online Debate?

Kinja becomes a platform for controversy

Update: Jezebel wrote on its website that because of its complaints, Gawker Media has disabled media uploads in comments and removed offensive post. It also is re-introducing a pending comment system until a permanent fix is found. 

Gawker Media has gone from a platform for public conversations to being the subject of one.

Yesterday, staff at female-focused news and fashion blog Jezebel, which is owned by Gawker Media, filed a group complaint on the front page of their site entitled We Have A Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won’t Do Anything About It that has garnered over 2,600 comments so far.

The technical issue is the ability to post anonymous comments to a story—including violent pornographic images—through untraceable "burner" accounts, which is allowed by Gawker Media's Kinja publishing system.

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