Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
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Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
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Re: Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
#2People who get caught doing this need to be prosecuted, and if convicted, labeled as sexual criminals and placed on a register. Employers should be able to see the kinds of people they are employing or about to employ.
As a father myself, this kind of behaviour makes me sick and I cannot understand people who feel they need to defend these kinds of sick comments.
Re: Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
#3As a father, I have warned my daughter about the Ring of Gyges.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges
Look, at the end of the day, it's pixels. You can't even prove that posters are humans or robots on Twitter. Taking umbrage over a Turing-suspicious medium reeks of middle class moral panic and, in my opinion, has no business being on HN.
Re: Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
#4People who get caught doing this need to be prosecuted, and if convicted, labeled as sexual criminals and placed on a register. Employers should be able to see the kinds of people they are employing or about to employ. As a father myself, this kind of behaviour makes me sick and I cannot understand people who feel they need to defend these kinds of sick comments.
Too many people seem to misunderstand that 'freedom of speech' does not mean 'freedom from repercussions'. Pretty glad to read jobs had been lost as a result of this.
Re: Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
#5People who get caught doing this need to be prosecuted, and if convicted, labeled as sexual criminals and placed on a register. Employers should be able to see the kinds of people they are employing or about to employ. As a father myself, this kind of behaviour makes me sick and I cannot understand people who feel they need to defend these kinds of sick comments.
Too many people seem to misunderstand that 'freedom of speech' does not mean 'freedom from repercussions'. Pretty glad to read jobs had been lost as a result of this.
Too many people seem to think they are the moral authority on what reprocussions are appropriate.
Re: Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
#6As a father, I have warned my daughter about the Ring of Gyges. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges Look, at the end of the day, it's pixels. You can't even prove that posters are humans or robots on Twitter. Taking umbrage over a Turing-suspicious medium reeks of middle class moral panic and, in my opinion, has no business being on HN.
>You can't even prove that posters are humans or robots on Twitter.
Did you read the article? Schilling found at least nine real humans. They've been suspended or fired. Some will go to jail.
They were real men making sexual threats to his daughter, thinking they were anonymous. They weren't.
Lots of women online face threats like Schilling's daughter received. Women in the tech industry face stuff like this. I'd say it's relevant.
Re: Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
#7As a father, I have warned my daughter about the Ring of Gyges. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges Look, at the end of the day, it's pixels. You can't even prove that posters are humans or robots on Twitter. Taking umbrage over a Turing-suspicious medium reeks of middle class moral panic and, in my opinion, has no business being on HN.
HEEERE COMES THE NARRATIVE DOWNVOTE, ALL ABOARD!!!!
Re: Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
#8As a father, I have warned my daughter about the Ring of Gyges. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges Look, at the end of the day, it's pixels. You can't even prove that posters are humans or robots on Twitter. Taking umbrage over a Turing-suspicious medium reeks of middle class moral panic and, in my opinion, has no business being on HN.
HEEERE COMES THE NARRATIVE DOWNVOTE, ALL ABOARD!!!!
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Re: Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
#9People who get caught doing this need to be prosecuted, and if convicted, labeled as sexual criminals and placed on a register. Employers should be able to see the kinds of people they are employing or about to employ. As a father myself, this kind of behaviour makes me sick and I cannot understand people who feel they need to defend these kinds of sick comments.
Behavior is obviously not right, but is it really harming someone else's rights? I'm having a hard time jumping from sexual innuendos to sexual predators... I think it would be a massive mistake to try to make into a crime.
Although many of these tweets clearly cross the line of tastelessness, how many sexual jokes/innuendos are less obvious and more controversial about whether they are tasteless? We don't need to criminalize this. Nobody's rights are being violated, in my opinion. We shouldn't be using the criminal system unless there is a clear threat of violence, not just some internet trolls trying to get a reaction out of a celebrity....
Re: Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
#10As a father, I have warned my daughter about the Ring of Gyges. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges Look, at the end of the day, it's pixels. You can't even prove that posters are humans or robots on Twitter. Taking umbrage over a Turing-suspicious medium reeks of middle class moral panic and, in my opinion, has no business being on HN.
We live our lives online today, these are our methods of communication. These are the ways we keep up on the news, do our work, keep in touch with our friends and family, indulge our interests and passions, relax, etc. This whole "sticks and stones..." mentality is poisonous. There is no wall, no chasm, no separation between "the real world" and "the online world" the internet is just a medium of communication for communicating within the real world. These people are real people. The way you treat people online matters just as much as the way you treat people in person or on the phone matters, there is no communication medium which magically filters out the consequences of one's actions nor one which filters out the potential to be hurt.