In Memoriam: Ian Murdock

Post by ricardobeat » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 8:37 PM UTC

segmondy wrote: post #45

It really bothers me that traces of someone's existence can be wiped out with a mouse click, be it on twitter, google, facebook, or other sites. I read the tweets while this was going on, I was hoping he would find some other means to cope and raise awareness, and to hear that he actually went through with it. :-( I go to reread and see if there's anything I might have missed and his twitter page is gone as if he nev…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 8:40 PM UTC

Post by click170 » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 8:42 PM UTC

jimrandomh wrote: post #106

This was very recent, and the facts are not yet in. The best evidence we have to go on is his most recent tweets, captured on Pastebin ( http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM ). His Twitter account ( https://twitter.com/imurdock ) seems to have been deleted, which is extremely strange. Main notes: * He was repeatedly beaten by the police. He alludes to having taken photos of the injuries, and having been hospitalized, so this…

Post by scrollaway » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 8:44 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #119

scrollaway wrote: post #52

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I should probably post this on a throwaway... but this hit somewhat close to home. A few years ago I was going through a very tough time. I lived in the UK at the time and went to california for a meetup. After even more personal crap happened, I went on a walk seriously considering suicide. Kept trying to call friends, family, nobody picked up, it was the hardest day of my life to get through. Next thing I knew I fo…

> I found myself on top of a tall building at which point I had the clarity to figure out I really should talk to a suicide hotline. Unfortunately I didn't know the number and internet abroad was impossible to get at the time, I'm really sorry you had that experience. And I'm so so glad that you didn't die that night. I wanted to let you know that there is work currently happening (in the UK) to prevent death by suic…

Post by eric_h » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 8:44 PM UTC

dguaraglia wrote: post #65

samstave wrote: post #55

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Without giving too much detail in public, police were called to my house and I had just finished putting my children to bed. The officer was talking to me and then asked me to step on the porch, after doing so they had asked if I had been drinking - I said yes I had wine with my dinner, why. They then arrested me and refused to tell me why - their exact words were "you know why" and took me to jail. I then had to bai…

Ugh. Assholes. The tactics you describe remind me of Matt Taibbi's book "The Divide", where he recounts the experience of people in NYC being asked to empty their pockets (which the police shouldn't do unless they had probable cause) only to be charged with "possessing narcotics in public" when they found they had a joint. The existence of such a loophole, and the fact that the police knowingly uses it with impunity,…