Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 2:43 PM UTC

bigB wrote: post #35

jimwise wrote: post #7

No 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…

I think from what I have followed of this, there have been some pretty lewd and targeted comments made, not only on blog comments but via direct email. While I dont know Bayley at all, from what I can gather she is highlighting the fact that people have to put up with such harassment due to the fact that ISP's or Police will not act on it. Being that the comments were made via direct email, I guess you could liken it…

Post by bigB » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 2:44 PM UTC

maximusprime wrote: post #44

bigB wrote: post #41

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I don't know about you, but that's a poor and weak excuse. Would your be offended If I said that to your wife, daughter, mother in person. If someone said that to my wife in person I would break their nose, so why should online be any different.

If you said things to me / my family in person, there is the added threat of violence. Online, there is no such threat. You could just as easily be a bot spewing hate, as a real human being. And being offended by a bot is pretty irrational. Online, there is "data". If I know you, or have formed attachment to you via ongoing conversations etc or divulging details about myself, then the data becomes more meaningful and…

Post by maximusprime » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 2:47 PM UTC

bigB wrote: post #53

maximusprime wrote: post #44

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If you said things to me / my family in person, there is the added threat of violence. Online, there is no such threat. You could just as easily be a bot spewing hate, as a real human being. And being offended by a bot is pretty irrational. Online, there is "data". If I know you, or have formed attachment to you via ongoing conversations etc or divulging details about myself, then the data becomes more meaningful and…

If that person kept coming back again and again with the same or similar comments, would you see the threat, this is what is happening here if you care to actually read the articles

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

ugh wrote: post #48

DiabloD3 wrote: post #19

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MikeeUSA frequently states dumb shit like "oh, women deserve to be raped since the day they first bleed because this is what God created women for" and other shit. He does it purely for the sake of trolling, and people periodically bite the trollbait. Is this illegal? No. Should he be beaten with in an inch of his life? Yes. Is that going to happen outside of a prison? Probably not, no one is quite sure of his exact…

“Should he be beaten with in an inch of his life? Yes.” No. No. Definitly not. Are you crazy?

Post by pnathan » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 2:49 PM UTC