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Something has been nagging my brain and I was trying to work out what it was. Reading this article jolted it loose. This whole horrible situation Michael Arrin
by sh1mmer 18y ago
Something has been nagging my brain and I was trying to work out what it was. Reading this article jolted it loose.
This whole horrible situation Michael Arrington has found himself in is incredibly similar to Kathy Sierra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra).
The same comments by reasonable people are being repeated about how unacceptable it is, and yet 2 years on it's happening to a different internet personality, albeit not a woman this time.
Frankly sometimes I feel like I'm a hostage of the people the democratization of web has enabled. Although, I'd still say there is much more good than bad (I'm not Andrew Keen!).
- ahoyhere 18y agoSo Arrington gets spat on, and everyone suddenly forgets what a giant, dripping blowhard the man is? Hello. Spitting on somebody is totally déclassé, and death threats are never cool, but the man is -- professionally speaking -- a bastard. That is an image he has carefully cultivated. He may be beloved of his friends & fam, but they're not the ones spitting on him.