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You're comparing a hypothetical danger of society gone amok with the practical already-experienced danger of pissing off a systemic abuser with tens of thousand
by throwaway7613 7y ago
You're comparing a hypothetical danger of society gone amok with the practical already-experienced danger of pissing off a systemic abuser with tens of thousands of followers. Even this very HN thread is full of people blindly defending him.
If there is a functioning body of authority that is accepting confidential complaints, then I will happily use my real name. I am not eager to invite abuse just to help the HN community gain some awareness of what has been going on for years.
- neilv 7y agoNot society gone amok -- we have institutions, which might be applicable. Is this within the purview of any of the Python organizations, open source funding organizations, donation payment processors, government authorities, etc.?
- pseudalopex 7y agoReitz controls the Requests project. He accepted donations through a money transfer service that disclaims any responsibility. Smith has no grounds to sue Reitz. Government authorities are unlikely to investigate an uninvolved party's concerns about a possible $30,000 fraud with no known victims in their jurisdiction.