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Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All LostBlum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All LostPosted Mar 25, 2013 9:41 UTC (Mon) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)Parent article: Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
> "Within 24 hours, Adria was being attacked with the vile words people use only when attacking women. They called her a man hater (this was the nicest thing they said) who robbed a father of three of his livelihood. Then the threats began- on twitter, on her blog, on facebook. She should get raped, she should be fired, she should be killed, she should kill herself. A petition was started and people threatened SendGrid’s business. The company itself suffered a DDOS attack. All this ridiculousness made Adria look reasonable in comparison."
I wasn't following this story closely, but, man, I knew Internet was full of idiots and jerks but now I'm officially speechless.
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Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost Posted Mar 25, 2013 23:16 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
The internet stopped being different from the real world some time ago now.
Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost Posted Mar 26, 2013 0:28 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Quite. This sort of self-organizing misogynist travelling death-and-rape threat-fest has been going for years (it's forced a number of women in the skeptical community out of the community entirely and into self-imposed internet silence, because every comment they make, on any subject, elicits hundreds of appalling threats from the same crowd). I wish there was a way to identify the people who do this and silently erase them from the space-time continuum, but unfortunately there is not.
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