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The NYT reports that New York Magazine website went off-line hours after posting a story featuring 35 women who have accused the comedian Bill Cosby of sexual abuse and the article was inaccessible on Monday morning. "Our site is experiencing technical difficulties. We are aware of the issue, and working on a fix," the magazine posted to its main Twitter account early Monday morning.
A user called Vikingdom2016 claimed responsibility for a DOS attack on the site and said the attack was based on a hatred for New York, and was not related to the cover that features Mr. Cosby's accusers. As the website remained off-line, editors were working to find other ways to publish the piece, which the magazine said took six months of work.
On Monday morning, the magazine began posting audio related to the cover article on Instagram. The story is available at Web.Archive.Org's Wayback Machine.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Techwolf on Tuesday July 28 2015, @07:16PM
I've grew up listing to Bill Cosby comedy. It was always clean and he came across as a wholesome person that would never cuss. When I first heard this story months ago, I still find it hard to believe they are talking about the same person here. My take is either Bill Cosby really did dark things off the air or there are 35 women golddiggers. This reminds of the one British guy that was praised as a hero and had many awards and moments. After he died is when the ugly truth came out of him being a active sexual child abuser. The results was pulling of some awards and removing of some moments.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Techwolf on Tuesday July 28 2015, @07:25PM
Read the web-archived articial.....holy ${DIETY}. There is just way too much details and similarities to just be made up. Defentely not golddigging here.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:38PM
People have said that exact same thing about alien abductions. Too many similarities between accounts of the lights, the ship, the grey skinned little dudes, the medical experiments and so on.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Nerdfest on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:03PM
So, you're saying that was Cosby as well?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @10:01AM
No, the child abusers were aliens who borrowed Cosby's body. ;-)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by dime on Tuesday July 28 2015, @07:31PM
The lesson to learn here is that you should kill your idols.
Behind every idol that's propped up as infalliable is a human being, especially if they're the ones propping themselves up as Cosby did his whole life, waving his moral superiority over his own race.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:05PM
> The lesson to learn here is that you should kill your idols.
The broader lesson is that power without accountability magnifies human failings. We see it all the time in all arenas, catholic church pedo cover-ups, jerry sandusky, Donald Sterling's housing discrimination [go.com] while buying multiple lifetime achievement awards [npr.org] from the NAACP.
It's rare that a person who is a saint ends up in power, they kind of self-select out of the pool. So the best we can do is to never let anyone off the hook for being successful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @09:40AM
I conclude it is very dangerous to be your idol. ;-)
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday July 28 2015, @07:38PM
That kind of thing is apparently very common [go.com] in the entertainment industry, especially when child actors submit to abuse "willingly" because the abusers dangle fame and fortune over their heads in exchange for the abuse.
Fame, money, and connections will have that kind of perceived invincibility effect on a predator -- especially one with a wholesome image like Bill Cosby whose personality and father-figure aura would enable him to more readily earn the trust of his prey.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:08PM
I recall some article I read a while back where Corey Feldman tells a story about how his friend Corey Haim told him about how was raped by some Hollywood pervert on a studio lot when he was 11. Very disturbing to read about this happening to a child.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jcm on Tuesday July 28 2015, @09:05PM
Hollywood is a paradise for paedophiles.
Producers can easily exert their influence on young actors.
http://whatculture.com/film/10-disturbing-truths-you-didnt-know-about-the-movie-industry.php/6 [whatculture.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by slash2phar on Tuesday July 28 2015, @07:44PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:16PM
Savile was a monster, but he was part of something even bigger. [washingtonpost.com]
Also Gary Glitter. [bbc.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:11PM
> I've grew up listing to Bill Cosby comedy. It was always clean and he came across as a wholesome person that would never cuss.
As a kid I remember listening to his spanish fly [youtube.com] bit on one of his comedy albums (actually I think he had more than one bit about spanish fly). In retrospect it was much more revealing than anyone would have suspected.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday July 28 2015, @09:25PM
People can have secrets. People can lead dual lives.
Fun story: My ex girlfriend was cleaning out her parents closet with her mother. She came across a box buried in the back that contained all sorts of S&M paraphernalia; hand cuffs, ropes, whips, bondage masks, dildos, leather clothing items, ball gags, paddles, you get the idea. Her mother was red with embarrassment and flat out admitted that it was theirs and she thought it was moved to the attic. She was flabberghasted to say the least.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @02:46AM
> People can have secrets. People can lead dual lives.
Not just can, but must, it is part of what it means to be human. The magnitude of the dichotomy varies by the individual, but as your example shows we are one person to our children, another person to each of our lovers, and yet another to our parents -- more generally we create a variation on our personality for practically every social context like work, school, church, etc. Some aspects are common across one or more of those variations, but some aspects are highly compartmentalized.
That's one of the biggest reasons ubiquitous surveillance is dangerous to our humanity. It tries to stuff all of our variations into one bucket and then takes away our agency to control which aspects of our personality are disclosed to which people. In Facebook's ideal world you have one facebook account which is a proxy for your interactions with everyone else and is filled with the data they've accumulated on you, willingly or otherwise. Facebook decides who that data is shared with, not you.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 29 2015, @08:18AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves