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None at all, by many. A number, though, arguably violated California Penal Code Section 422 (I say "arguably" because whether they did depends on how seriously
by bzbarsky 13y ago
None at all, by many.
A number, though, arguably violated California Penal Code Section 422 (I say "arguably" because whether they did depends on how seriously the threat recipient took them). Of course they may not be in California, but many other jurisdictions have similar laws.
- Crito 13y agoCan you point to any of the specific comments that you think arguably threatened others? I did not see any such comments on HN, although admittedly I did not follow the story closely on reddit, tumblr, or twitter.
- bzbarsky 13y agoThere were no such comments on HN, thankfully. I didn't follow the story on reddit or twitter much myself, but I _did_ talk to a fair number of people at Mozilla during the goings on. (I work at Mozilla, if that wasn't clear.) There were certainly mails or blog comments (I'm not sure which, and the two are equivalent anyway when comments are moderated) with such threats in response to Lars Lohn's blog post (quoted near the bottom of <http://www.twobraids.com/2014/04/back-into-light.html> http://www.twobraids.com/2014/04/back-into-light.html>). Of course I have no way to prove that to you. An earlier version of Lars' post (before he deleted it in his fit of pique) had an explicit edit mentioning the threats, but even Google's cache now only has <http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eKzKHuOPsxYJ:www.twobraids.com/2014/04/the-mozilla-ceo.html>.. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eKzKHuO.... I'm told (more second-hand than in Lars' case, but by people I trust) that others received similar threats as well. Again, I have no way to convince you that this is true.