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4chan killed Terry Davis. It was a concerted effort over many years to get him run out of his home and society. HN banning him was not the cause of this, it wa
by jszymborski 3y ago
4chan killed Terry Davis. It was a concerted effort over many years to get him run out of his home and society.
HN banning him was not the cause of this, it was a symptom.
I think of Terry often, and he most certainly deserved better.
- subsistence234 3y ago>4chan killed Terry Davis. weird. they seem to like him
- krapp 3y agoThey liked Chris Chan too, and look at what happened. 4chan "likes" vulnerable people in much the way that psychopaths "like" small animals. Hacker News had a weird fetishistic fascination with him too.
- DANmode 3y ago> Hacker News had a weird fetishistic fascination with him too. Unfortunately, that can be blamed on "lack of great hackers to observe".
- red-iron-pine 3y agothere is an important distinction between laughing with, and laughing at. there was likely a bit of both.