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Phoning to say "you're an utter asshole", while not a nice thing to do, is still not exactly the same as lynching someone. Tone down the hyperbole a bit, please.
Sure, but thousands of people phoning in to say “you’re an utter asshole” — leading to the site’s closure — isn’t simply “not a nice thing to do,” though. They got what they deserved, but if it ain’t “mob justice,” I don’t know what else to call it. The Internet, en masse, certainly has a pulse and life of it’s own.
That isn't why they closed.
Think what would have happened to them if they stayed open, from the ACTUAL non-mob-justice legal system.
It's in my comment just a bit up:
The first sentence is only three words long and yet contains the elementary-school-level mistake of using “its” when ”it’s” was intended. In fact, this article is full of basic mistakes even spellcheck can correct. She’s an editor.
The first sentence is only three words long and yet contains the elementary-school-level mistake of using “its” when ”it’s” was intended. In fact, this article is full of basic mistakes even spellcheck can correct. She’s an editor.
I've learned two things in life about people like this editor: 1. I will never understand how their brain puts them in the right for every situation they've ever been in 2. No amount of arguing or facts will get in the way of #1
I'm not a fan of the mob mentality that drove the harassment she received. Its amazing what people will do once they're convinced they're right
I'm sure she feels extremely sorry for herself right now but for all intents and purposes she is simply a thief.
Maybe it wan't sincere enough for you, fine. But in any case, what she did is less horrible than what has since been done to her. I have no doubt that "harass" is the right word, no doubt that her advertisers are being contacted, her voice mail stuffed, and her mailbox filled.
Based on what? How's this different than suing companies for silly shit? Its only different because you're the judge. An armchair judge. This should have been handled privately. Like adults. This is drama..a soap opera...stuff of tabloid.
Someone has wronged me and I'll unleash the internet on them.
Put your pitchforks away.
The editor's response reveals a lot about her understanding (or lack thereof) of the business she's in. Normally I'm willing to overlook small typos in blog posts -- but when you are an editor, and you are writing an important response on an important issue, it's not wise to get the punctuation wrong on the very first word . (It should be "it's sad", not "its sad".) That she continues not to use apostrophes throughou…
I couldn't agree more that this editor's fate is deserved and that this is an "apology" only in the traditional meaning of that word (an attempted defense and not a mea culpa ), and a poor one at that. I also have been critical of her unbelievably tone-deaf approach to the subject of handling the complaint of an innocent person whom she had wronged (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870300 ). Yet, at some leve…
(Working on the assumption that the author is being sincere here) This displays such a fundamental misunderstanding of copyright that it initially shocked me. But in retrospect I suspect this attitude is probably very widely shared, particularly amongst younger people who've grown up with Napster and filesharing and bit torrent. While most of us don't republish other people's copyrighted work, I'm sure very few of us…
Many of who is against copyright and patent are libertarian radicals and anarcho-capitalists. They are one of the least likely to be caught red-handed with not understanding how copyright and patents work.