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You've never seen Anonymous go nuclear on white supremacists? Or back when they were trolling Tom Green's live web show? etc. The fact that this is a "Women in

by pyre 14y ago

You've never seen Anonymous go nuclear on white supremacists? Or back when they were trolling Tom Green's live web show? etc. The fact that this is a "Women in Tech" issue is what generated so much publicity, and the publicity is what draws the trolls. If two posters on 4chan's /b/ board had some exchange where one named-and-shamed the other over a penis joke, and he ended up losing his job? I don't think it's hard to imagine Anonymous coming down hard in the perpetrator, whether male or female.

mladenkovacevic 14y ago
The difference is in the scale. I bet if you compared their campaign of "going nuclear" on white supremacists it would register but a blip compared to what's going on here. And it IS because she is a woman... and also because she's black. Those two probably each increase the measure of the e-mob response exponentially.
- pyre 14y ago
  | I bet if you compared their campaign of | "going nuclear" on white supremacists it | would register but a blip compared to what's | going on here. What is it that makes what's going on here worse than anything else? The DDoS attacks? The threats? The volume of threats? Has she been SWAT'd[1]? (I'm not heavily invested in this mess, so maybe I'm missing something) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
- jimzvz 14y ago
  >I bet... >...probably... >And it IS... Believe it or not, your opinion isn't fact.
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