Fuck Jizzmodo

I’m not going to go into specifics about what hap­pened, or the time­line of events. If you fol­low Mac news you know what I’m talk­ing about, if you don’t then here is a quick run­down. Jizzmodo (I hereby refuse to ever type Gizmodo again) posted a story with details and pic­tures of a pur­ported pro­to­type next-generation iPhone. It was then revealed that Jizzmodo paid an unnamed party who had stolen (yes, stolen) the phone from an Apple engi­neer for the device. Jizzmodo then felt com­pelled to pub­licly humil­i­ate the poor bas­tard who had the phone stolen from him.

Jizzmodo’s behav­ior in this mat­ter has been rep­re­hen­si­ble, and through­out has been laden with the douchebag atti­tude that they seem to think passes for wit. And let’s be absolutely clear here. This isn’t an “Apple’s tyran­ni­cal secrecy” issue here. It could be any company’s prod­uct and I would feel the same way about the shit-smears at Jizz. Because, in the end, it’s not about the leak. I mean, whoop-ti-fucking-do, we now have “con­fir­ma­tion” of a fea­ture set that any­one with a halfway func­tion­ing pre-frontal cor­tex could have pre­dicted. And if you think that the case is some­thing that Jonny Ive would put his name to your excep­tion­ally delu­sional. It’s about the fact that the cum-guzzlers at Jizzmodo couldn’t be con­tent to just pub­lish the infor­ma­tion, they were com­pelled to try to destroy a man’s career, and pos­si­bly life, in the process; laugh­ing all the while like the emo­tion­ally arrested pieces of filth that they are.

Honestly, the words nec­es­sary to heap the appro­pri­ate amount of scorn on these fine exam­ples of pond-scum fail me. At least with Arrington and the jack­asses at TechCrunch there is some slight attempt at being more than the National Enquirer of tech jour­nal­ism. Ultimately, all I can say is this: Fuck you Jizzmodo. Fuck you Nick Denton, Jason Chen, Jesus Diaz, and Brian Lam. You and your nar­cis­sis­tic sociopa­thy are fine exam­ples of the worst that human­ity has to offer. I’m not one to invoke higher pow­ers, but if there is any jus­tice in the world, the day will come when I see you broke, unem­ployed and suck­ing off the elderly for crack money. It might actu­ally be an improve­ment for you.

There, now I feel better.

P.S. I wholly sup­port Craig Hockenberry’s response to this issue. In the end, the only way to hurt these shits is to hit them in the page view.