Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment
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Re: Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment
#2That's a bummer. I thought we were making progress in that regard, but maybe we aren't.
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Re: Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment
#4stay classy australia. i'm surprised at the lewdness of images used in the keynote.
Re: Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment
#5stay classy australia. i'm surprised at the lewdness of images used in the keynote.
There wasn't even any nudity I could find... People should stop being offended at everything.
Re: Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment
#6And a third person kept phoning various people's workplaces and accusing them of being involved in child pornography.
Seriously? I'm having a hard time believing that this was instigated purely because she's a female developer. Surely there was more to it than her gender for someone to stoop that low?
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#7No disagreement with the basic, point, but was a bit surprised by this quote:
"So, here's our situation. We have a man (presumably; at any rate he appears to want to be identified as such) in the Australian Linux community, who targets women by sending them private abusive emails from a throwaway address and with a name that can't readily be connected to any publicly known member of the community. His ISP won't hand out information about him without a court order, his abuse doesn’t present the kind of imminent threat to physical safety that might interest law enforcement, and despite Linux Australia’s diversity statement and Linux.conf.au's anti-harassment policies, it's not clear that there’s any practical thing that either of those groups can do about him."
Is it Bayley's position that ISP's should give out information on their users in response to warrantless requests -- from private individuals, no less?
Is it likewise Bayley's position that law enforcement should be going after people for making lewd comments online?
Re: Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment
#8It distresses me that "political correctness" has become a dirty "four letter" word rather than simply a shared understanding that people who address others in a hate-filled, bullying, disrepectful and demeaning way should be actively shunned and censured (i.e. not "censored").
Re: Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment
#9stay classy australia. i'm surprised at the lewdness of images used in the keynote.
There wasn't even any nudity I could find... People should stop being offended at everything.
There's a lot of things besides nudity that can render an image inappropriate for use in a conference presentation, and judging from the description in the linked article (There was one image of a pig indulging in sexual activity with a goose...), I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to be offended.
Re: Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment
#10And a third person kept phoning various people's workplaces and accusing them of being involved in child pornography. Seriously? I'm having a hard time believing that this was instigated purely because she's a female developer. Surely there was more to it than her gender for someone to stoop that low?
It wasn't just that she was female, it was that she was female and spoke out against the disgusting behaviour she saw and experienced.
Sadly this is not limited to the tech community; feminist bloggers in general have to deal with an unbelievable amount of shit.