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An excerpt from the linked article: "The attacks weren't coming from just the darker corners of the Internet, places where people trade "creepshots" of 14-year
by jellicle 14y ago
An excerpt from the linked article:
"The attacks weren't coming from just the darker corners of the Internet, places where people trade "creepshots" of 14-year-old girls. This time, many of the threats came from places like Hacker News, a respected computer news discussion site run by Paul Graham's venture capital company, YCombinator. Ambitious computer professionals post on Hacker News under their real names to boost their careers—and felt comfortable posting vicious abuse under those same names."
- DanBC 14y agoDo they mention the supporters of that woman? Or the people who disagree strongly with the tweeting of the photo but who agreed with the rest of what she said? Do they mention that most[1] of the worst aggressive offensive posts were made by new accounts? [1] Most, but not all. Some posts made by established HN accounts was pretty vile.
- danielweber 14y agoIf someone posted threats under their real name, I hope the police are involved.
- pifflesnort 14y agoThis seems to run counter to reality. I saw critiques and criticism from regular commenters, but no "vicious abuse", outside of what appeared to be new/anonymous accounts. The HN threads themselves were linked to from elsewhere and drew in a lot of anonymous/new commenters. [edit] Also, this article is written by Valerie Aurora, the same person responsible for the censorship disaster at Security BSides: http://violetblue.tumblr.com/post/44107008572/what-happened-with-my-security-bsides-talk http://violetblue.tumblr.com/post/44107008572/what-happened-... Hardly an unbiased source. Perhaps its time to stop propagating the noise from this particular echo chamber.
- illuminate 14y ago"many of the threats came from places like Hacker News" Wait, when did she receive threats from here? Verbal abuse, certainly. But ~threats~?