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>Then, should we ban people such as Shanley, Randi Harper and their likes when they "unleash" their followers on some guy? Absolutely. If the goal for Twitter

>Then, should we ban people such as Shanley, Randi Harper and their likes when they "unleash" their followers on some guy? Absolutely. If the goal for Twitter is to be a place free from this sort of abuse, then anyone using a position of prominence to call for harassment and abuse should not be allowed to do so. I don't actually know who these people are/that they've done what you're saying, but if it's true, then I don't think it's a hard question at all.

johnbm 10y ago
Randi Harper is... Wait for it... an anti harassment activist who runs an "abuse prevention initiative". Who got kicked out of the FreeBSD community for being abusive. Meanwhile Shanley Kane is a prominent Women in Tech advocate and founder of diversity magazine Model View Culture who got famous trolling twitter and having meltdowns when people called her out on it. She also wrote her cofounder Amelia Greenhall out of the site's history, and picked a fight with Gittip founder Chad Whitacre when people called her out on her dubious money making schemes. Do as I say, not as I do, it's built into the entire "harassment" narrative that's been pushed the last few years. It's all politicized, manufactured drama. It's not about real harassment at all. It's about self serving narcissists and power.