Saddest news I've read all day. Sex happens. Why ruin someone for this?
You don't know what he did to him, maybe that was gay rape!
A note from Keith
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#12To those of you who immediately believe the tumblr and therefore condemn the accuser as a liar: On what basis do you make your judgment? Do you: 1. Know Keith or the accuser personally, and therefore have the capacity to make an educated guess as to the veracity of the claims? 2. Believe that rich people, well known people, or people with blogs don't have the capacity to do what Keith is accused of doing? 3. Believe…
There's a human being on both sides of the story here. And being falsely accused of sexual harassment is a painful event.
I can't side with either party right now (due to the lack of facts), but I certainly feel more for Keith than I do the other, anonymous party.
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#13Saddest news I've read all day. Sex happens. Why ruin someone for this?
Huh? From what Keith says, his accuser is claiming that non-consensual acts occurred. Whether that is the case will be up to the courts to decide, but this is not just "Sex happens"
He said the suit alleges the relationship was not consensual. There's a difference, and I'm guessing it's oriented around the employment aspect.
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#14To those of you who immediately believe the tumblr and therefore condemn the accuser as a liar: On what basis do you make your judgment? Do you: 1. Know Keith or the accuser personally, and therefore have the capacity to make an educated guess as to the veracity of the claims? 2. Believe that rich people, well known people, or people with blogs don't have the capacity to do what Keith is accused of doing? 3. Believe…
I think you're right, I would just generalize your point. There are human beings on both sides of the story, we must remain moderate and refrain from making too much judgements until more facts are known and the justice has fully investigated this case.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Techcrunch has confirmed it. http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/rabois-left-square-over-sex...
Please forgive me if I don't count coverage by Techcrunch as verification. Did he tweet it? Link from FB? Send a signed email? It could be legit, but the bar should be higher than this.
Every tech site is referencing it.
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#16What an impossible position.
On the one hand – work has become such a big part of our lives. If we make it impossible for romance and work to co-exist, that reduces a lot of surface area for finding long-term romantic partners.
On the other – at a certain level of authority and prominence, you just shouldn't have sex with someone you're working with. There's too much that can go wrong. This is the nightmare scenario for at least one of the parties, though we don't know for sure yet who it is.
But even if things don't shit the bed quite this bad, you're just asking for awkwardness and trouble in most cases.
Impossible.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Techcrunch has confirmed it. http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/rabois-left-square-over-sex...
Please forgive me if I don't count coverage by Techcrunch as verification. Did he tweet it? Link from FB? Send a signed email? It could be legit, but the bar should be higher than this.
Kara Swisher says she got the same statement from him.
http://allthingsd.com/20130125/keith-rabois-long-statement-o...
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#18To those of you who immediately believe the tumblr and therefore condemn the accuser as a liar: On what basis do you make your judgment? Do you: 1. Know Keith or the accuser personally, and therefore have the capacity to make an educated guess as to the veracity of the claims? 2. Believe that rich people, well known people, or people with blogs don't have the capacity to do what Keith is accused of doing? 3. Believe…
There's a human being on both sides of the story here. And being falsely accused of sexual harassment is a painful event. I can't side with either party right now (due to the lack of facts), but I certainly feel more for Keith than I do the other, anonymous party.
That's the point - just because the other party is anonymous doesn't mean they deserve less empathy. Of course, we're biased to the more vivid human character, but it's just a bias. Let's try and correct it with reason.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Techcrunch has confirmed it. http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/rabois-left-square-over-sex...
Please forgive me if I don't count coverage by Techcrunch as verification. Did he tweet it? Link from FB? Send a signed email? It could be legit, but the bar should be higher than this.
I totally agree that most news sites do a poor job of verifying information before parroting information, but several sites are quoting a statement from Square that seems to verify this (e.g. http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-square-e...)
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#20It's interesting that he says Square had no knowledge of the relationship until the lawsuit. I've heard of companies requiring that you tell HR if you are in a relationship with another employee- seems that level of disclosure would be very smart for someone at the top of the company, at least.
That struck me as odd too. When I saw someone I had a single date with was interviewing at the company I worked for, as she left the building I went to HR and told them so that there would be no surprise later. And that was just a single date, not an ongoing relationship.