Donglegate

[JimboBob]

Not sure if you guys have been following this story, really surprising at the amount of reactions coming out:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2...men-at-pycon-and-accuse-them-of-being-sexist/

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4...ck-jokes-exploded-into-ddos-and-death-threats

http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/20/p...ids-developer-evangelist-outs-him-on-twitter/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-dongle-joke-that-spiraled-way-out-of-control/

 

[cerebus]

In my view she was totally out of order.

 

[mercurial]

Already posted

 

[ginggs]

Already posted

Link?

 

[mercurial]

Link?

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/515452-Is-Git-sexist?p=10040446

 

[JimboBob]

Check link, not working.

I find the story fascinating, you've got death threats, rape, Anonymous, EPIC trolls, people being fired, DDoS attacks and all the big web sites giving their own comments and for what?! Because of 3 people! They should make a movie about this!

I must say, she seems pretty tech savvy but I think she's bitten off more than she can chew here. She was almost instantly put under a microscope with all her Twitter comments being analysed and commented on, there was even a link with pictures of a her cat and house that she rented...

Scary stuff.

 

[mercurial]

Link works fine?

 

[JimboBob]

Hmm...i was getting an error message....works now

 

[nfbs]

This happened all over 2 days. The internet has moved on.

 

[kingrob]

This happened all over 2 days. The internet has moved on.

Agreed. It's old news.

 

[JimboBob]

Never knew that you guys were soooo cutting edge.