For anyone else who doesn't know this story completely, this is about reverse sexism - Where a female reporter had done her homework wrong, convinced a man into having a casual conversation/interview and then went about to publish his entire home address, accusing him of being the bitcoin founder, putting his life in grave danger, in full knowledge of the fact that bitcoin (to which she claims he has ties) is often used by drug and weapons dealers.
She took absolutely no responsibility or whatsoever in her reporting. This is extremely bad if you're particularly a 64 year old just doing his thing.
Now just reverse the genders and imagine the feminist outrage. I haven't noticed a single feminist organization taking a stand on this issue.Now just imagine the outrage if someone actually did the same to the reporter.
When I asked about this to one of the online feminist groups, the reply was along the lines of "Oh, people do it all the time to women. For example, Adria Richards. This is nothing new and we don't need to be outraged about this." (Their logic is that just because this has happened to women in the past, the males of the present deserve this kind of punishment)
Yet feminism stands for equality, they say. And not all feminists are like that. And yet the "for equality" feminists are yet to do anything about this lousy reporter.
It's mostly by the employees of the respective companies themselves. I once was working in a company (now a popular help desk company, famous within HN circles even) where the co/founder called up a few of his employees to downvote a comment that raised a serious but negative tone about his company. And all the employees were smart enough to use proxies to downvote the comment into oblivion. So, always think twice if it's worth losing your karma in a fixed game.
She took absolutely no responsibility or whatsoever in her reporting. This is extremely bad if you're particularly a 64 year old just doing his thing.
Now just reverse the genders and imagine the feminist outrage. I haven't noticed a single feminist organization taking a stand on this issue.Now just imagine the outrage if someone actually did the same to the reporter.
When I asked about this to one of the online feminist groups, the reply was along the lines of "Oh, people do it all the time to women. For example, Adria Richards. This is nothing new and we don't need to be outraged about this." (Their logic is that just because this has happened to women in the past, the males of the present deserve this kind of punishment)
Yet feminism stands for equality, they say. And not all feminists are like that. And yet the "for equality" feminists are yet to do anything about this lousy reporter.