http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazi...share&_r=0
Several stories discussed at length on Everything Else are mentioned here. Dongle guy who got fired, Sam Biddle and more.
I wasn't aware Sam Biddle had put out an apology post for fomenting Twitter outrage mobs. It must have got lost in the pre-Xmas lull.
http://gawker.com/justine-sacco-is-good-...1653022326
Interestingly, it seems Adria Richards regrets nothing. All she can muster is feeling sorry for the consequences she personally suffered and blame others.
Several stories discussed at length on Everything Else are mentioned here. Dongle guy who got fired, Sam Biddle and more.
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In the early days of Twitter, I was a keen shamer. When newspaper columnists made racist or homophobic statements, I joined the pile-on. Sometimes I led it. The journalist A. A. Gill once wrote a column about shooting a baboon on safari in Tanzania: “I’m told they can be tricky to shoot. They run up trees, hang on for grim life. They die hard, baboons. But not this one. A soft-nosed .357 blew his lungs out.” Gill did the deed because he “wanted to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone, a stranger.”
I was among the first people to alert social media. (This was because Gill always gave my television documentaries bad reviews, so I tended to keep a vigilant eye on things he could be got for.) Within minutes, it was everywhere. Amid the hundreds of congratulatory messages I received, one stuck out: “Were you a bully at school?”
I wasn't aware Sam Biddle had put out an apology post for fomenting Twitter outrage mobs. It must have got lost in the pre-Xmas lull.
http://gawker.com/justine-sacco-is-good-...1653022326
Interestingly, it seems Adria Richards regrets nothing. All she can muster is feeling sorry for the consequences she personally suffered and blame others.
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The woman who took the photograph, Adria Richards, soon felt the wrath of the crowd herself. The man responsible for the dongle joke had posted about losing his job on Hacker News, an online forum popular with developers. This led to a backlash from the other end of the political spectrum. So-called men’s rights activists and anonymous trolls bombarded Richards with death threats on Twitter and Facebook. Someone tweeted Richards’s home address along with a photograph of a beheaded woman with duct tape over her mouth. Fearing for her life, she left her home, sleeping on friends’ couches for the remainder of the year.
Next, her employer’s website went down. Someone had launched a DDoS attack, which overwhelms a site’s servers with repeated requests. SendGrid, her employer, was told the attacks would stop if Richards was fired. The next day she was publicly let go.
“I cried a lot during this time, journaled and escaped by watching movies,” she later said to me in an email. “SendGrid threw me under the bus. I felt betrayed. I felt abandoned. I felt ashamed. I felt rejected. I felt alone.”