In Memoriam: Ian Murdock

For the record: I've never in my life worn a suit and there is absolutely nobody dead because 'a fucking PC techno-facist censored a thread'.

Just like edw519 isn't responsible for Aaron Swartz killing himself neither is DanG responsible for Ian Murdock.

You and all the other backseat drivers in this thread that have never in their lives had a visible and public role should take a hike.

Remember: it was precisely the sort of harrassment that Ian Murdock had to sustain that eventually caused him to flip, there is quite a bit of evidence that one of the catalysts in this whole saga is that someone kept on railing on debian.

DanG has taken exceptional risk in being publicly visible as the moderator of HN, he does so in an incredibly transparent fashion, comments on when and why decisions of all kinds are made and is working extremely hard to make HN a better place. To see a bunch of assholes use any and all opportunity to second guess the decisions and to make personal attacks including yours is proof positive that no good deed will go unpunished.

Your 'prior presence' does not excuse you from this deplorable behavior, you're just another lurker and an anonymous coward to me, your account creation date has fuck all to do with your degree of involvement in HN.

And if you really believe this place is run by suits and techno facists then you probably don't want any part of this anyway.

Its a fucking metaphor. You're a business man with a website. Actually wearing a suit has nothing to do with it. e.g. Zuck is a sandal wearing suit.

Notice how you lumped the lie of having "never in my life worn a suit", a ludicrously untenable statement, in before a subtle, undefended denial of my accusation.

I grimaced through the Aaron Swartz debacle quietly despite having the same feelings then. Ed is a suit. He claims to have been programming for longer than I've been alive. Codering at enterprises does not make a hacker. A Hacker has an ethos you all lack, namely "all information should be free". Dan censored a dying man's final plea -- and you stand behind him like the fucking fascists that no doubt physically brutalized him are standing behind one another.

You want to wait for an official police report? I live in California. I've stood toe to toe with these scumbags. You commenting from northern Europe is a god damn fucking joke. The fact that you feel you have an authority in the matter is utterly disgusting you fucking fascist sympathizer.

> You and all the other backseat drivers in this thread that have never in their lives had a visible and public role should take a hike.

Keep talking motherfucker. This shit is gold. You're driving? You're fucking driving? Pull over and get the FUCK out of the driver's seat, dick. I'm nauseous.

Less is more. I never asked for your shit and I don't give a fuck about your six digits of karma. I DON'T GIVE A SINGLE FUCK ABOUT YOUR HACKER NEWS KARMA. You're a karma whore. Ain't the first and ain't gonna be the last.

> Remember: it was precisely the sort of harrassment that Ian Murdock had to sustain that eventually caused him to flip, there is quite a bit of evidence that one of the catalysts in this whole saga is that someone kept on railing on debian.

Your colon usage is unnerving.

His fucking censored tweets were clear as night and day. You are rewriting history in the most Orwellian of ways. Disgusting.

> DanG has taken exceptional risk in being publicly visible as the moderator of HN, he does so in an incredibly transparent fashion, comments on when and why decisions of all kinds are made and is working extremely hard to make HN a better place.

Information.. free..

> To see a bunch of assholes use any and all opportunity to second guess the decisions and to make personal attacks including yours is proof positive that no good deed will go unpunished.

Any? All? Good deed or doubleplusgood deed?

> Your 'prior presence' does not excuse you from this deplorable behavior, you're just another lurker and an anonymous coward to me, your account creation date has fuck all to do with your degree of involvement in HN.

And that's what this place has devolved into -- suits circle jerking a PC techno-tomorrow on behalf of their techno-fascist overlords. There's a facade of Hackerdom but there's just a couple of douchebags standing behind the curtain.

> And if you really believe this place is run by suits and techno facists then you probably don't want any part of this anyway.

This was the final straw. I'm out and I'll be taking the true hackers with me.

His tweets were still available; did he get any help from that? From what I saw he got trolled.