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What the Dickens were you thinking even getting involved with E-Bay? Aren't they the company who mailed a severed pigs head [1] and made death threats to peopl

What the Dickens were you thinking even getting involved with E-Bay? Aren't they the company who mailed a severed pigs head [1] and made death threats to people they don't like? [2] Did that story turn out to be bogus? Or do people have really short memories? Or are people afraid to even talk about it? Why is anyone even talking about them as if they were a legitimate company instead of a bunch of gangsters who have only escaped jail on some technicality? [1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebay-lawsuit-massachusetts-couple-employees-harassment-cyberstalking/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebay-lawsuit-massachusetts-coup... [2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/lawsuit-ebay-tried-to-terrorize-stalk-and-silence-couple-that-ran-news-site/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/lawsuit-ebay-tri...

saghm 4y ago
Not that this makes it any better, but the article says a "bloody pig face Halloween mask", which seems different enough to warrant stating. That said, the whole list of things in the article is truly awful: "Executives texted among themselves about the need to "take her down" and "burn her to the ground." The harassment campaign included anonymous deliveries of live cockroaches and spiders, a funeral wreath, and a bloody pig face Halloween mask to the couple's home, according to federal prosecutors. The employees also sent pornographic magazines with the husband's name on them to a neighbor's house and planned to break into the couple's garage to install a GPS device on their car."
aasasd 4y ago
For some reason people never learn the lessons when it comes to sacred cows of US corporatism. People think that they personally will receive Infinite Corporate Benevolence, and not Infinite Corporate Evil. And then they get shafted, of course. Really, people are all too happy to bring cyberpunk into reality, as soon as possible.
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > For some reason people never learn the lessons when it comes to sacred cows of US corporatism. I think you mean corporate capitalism. Corporatism is a different thing.
  - actually_a_dog 4y ago
    I think they rather mean "corporatocracy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
    - nonrandomstring 4y ago
      Or perhaps a Coprotocracy [1], if that's not too "fecetious". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophilia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophilia

saghm 4y ago

Not that this makes it any better, but the article says a "bloody pig face Halloween mask", which seems different enough to warrant stating. That said, the whole list of things in the article is truly awful: "Executives texted among themselves about the need to "take her down" and "burn her to the ground." The harassment campaign included anonymous deliveries of live cockroaches and spiders, a funeral wreath, and a bloody pig face Halloween mask to the couple's home, according to federal prosecutors. The employees also sent pornographic magazines with the husband's name on them to a neighbor's house and planned to break into the couple's garage to install a GPS device on their car."

aasasd 4y ago

For some reason people never learn the lessons when it comes to sacred cows of US corporatism. People think that they personally will receive Infinite Corporate Benevolence, and not Infinite Corporate Evil. And then they get shafted, of course. Really, people are all too happy to bring cyberpunk into reality, as soon as possible.

dragonwriter 4y ago
> For some reason people never learn the lessons when it comes to sacred cows of US corporatism. I think you mean corporate capitalism. Corporatism is a different thing.
- actually_a_dog 4y ago
  I think they rather mean "corporatocracy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
  - nonrandomstring 4y ago
    Or perhaps a Coprotocracy [1], if that's not too "fecetious". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophilia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophilia