<blockquote>Putting your finger to the wind and deciding “Ok, this was a crappy summer and normal sane people tired of seeing terrible things on their computer and we all like J-Law a lot, so we won’t post it this time” is not ethics. Deciding to act like you’re better than the story, when you’re really probably pissed that 4chan and Imgur got the photos first is hypocrisy. It’s opportunism. If Jennifer Lawrence had been left out or it had been just a single celebrity (one we like less, for instance), the tenor of the conversation would be very different. After all, Gawker’s <i>own</i> porn site Fleshbot <a href="http://straight.fleshbot.com/5840086/are-these-nude-photos-of-scarlett-johansson-the-real-deal-updated-91611">had no qualms about doing it to Scarlett Johansson</a> and god knows who else over the years. (Note: Gawker no longer owns Fleshbot, but did when the blog posted the Scarlett Johansson nudes.)

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via <a href="http://betabeat.com/2014/09/spare-us-the-sanctimony-the-gross-hypocrisy-of-online-media-in-the-nude-photo-leak/">Spare Us The Sanctimony: The Gross Hypocrisy of Online Media in the Nude Photo Leak | | Betabeat</a>.