I joined to comment. This is near and dear to my own heart because I have been subjected to mob attacks in the past. As a result I was assaulted, tortured, assaulted, crippled and tortured again. I have had people beating on my door screaming they were going to kill me. All over lies, things blown out of proportion and a witch hunt. I spent the next 4.5 years in a wheelchair, I started walking again Dec 30th, 2012.
Our society desparately needs a socially acceptable boundary declaration. Could be as simple as, "you're in my bubble" or something similar. We don't have an easy warning system. My ideal resolution isn't to have this stop at the PyCon officials, but rather she should have turned around and said, "You're in my bubble." or "Please stop being rude." This of course isn't going to happen until #1 it is socially acceptable to say this (it currently isn't) and #2 people actually alter their behavior based on polite requests. I literally had to be dragged off of public transit because some black woman thought it was her right to yell about nothing at the top of her voice. I had seizures. Ambulance came. I had made 2 polite requests and moved to the other side of the train, but she increased her volume at my requests and again when I moved away. We believe it is our right as citizens of the United States to cause harm to other people as long as our actions are defensible. This woman (upon reading articles) appears to have the same mentality. I would happily DDOS her site if I had the means and I could get away with it as many others have done. Why not? It causes her harm right? I'm collectively poking and prodding the crowd here because I'm attempting to uncover the core issue.
The internet is more wild than the "Wild West" ever was. The world is changing too rapidly for us to assimilate those changes into society. While /b/ may be the cutting edge of social irresponsibility they eventually became socially responsible (care package to Egypt). Society at large needs to undergo a similar maturing. We need to respect any shed of privacy it possible to retain (because it isn't possible to prevent), we need to act in a form of enlightened self interest rather than selfish exploitation, we need to be held accountable for our actions and to hold *everyone* accountable for theirs. As distasteful as it might be, everyone needs to be punished - so causing harm isn't defensible.
I joined to comment. This is near and dear to my own heart because I have been subjected to mob attacks in the past. As a result I was assaulted, tortured, assaulted, crippled and tortured again. I have had people beating on my door screaming they were going to kill me. All over lies, things blown out of proportion and a witch hunt. I spent the next 4.5 years in a wheelchair, I started walking again Dec 30th, 2012.
Our society desparately needs a socially acceptable boundary declaration. Could be as simple as, "you're in my bubble" or something similar. We don't have an easy warning system. My ideal resolution isn't to have this stop at the PyCon officials, but rather she should have turned around and said, "You're in my bubble." or "Please stop being rude." This of course isn't going to happen until #1 it is socially acceptable to say this (it currently isn't) and #2 people actually alter their behavior based on polite requests. I literally had to be dragged off of public transit because some black woman thought it was her right to yell about nothing at the top of her voice. I had seizures. Ambulance came. I had made 2 polite requests and moved to the other side of the train, but she increased her volume at my requests and again when I moved away. We believe it is our right as citizens of the United States to cause harm to other people as long as our actions are defensible. This woman (upon reading articles) appears to have the same mentality. I would happily DDOS her site if I had the means and I could get away with it as many others have done. Why not? It causes her harm right? I'm collectively poking and prodding the crowd here because I'm attempting to uncover the core issue.
The internet is more wild than the "Wild West" ever was. The world is changing too rapidly for us to assimilate those changes into society. While /b/ may be the cutting edge of social irresponsibility they eventually became socially responsible (care package to Egypt). Society at large needs to undergo a similar maturing. We need to respect any shed of privacy it possible to retain (because it isn't possible to prevent), we need to act in a form of enlightened self interest rather than selfish exploitation, we need to be held accountable for our actions and to hold *everyone* accountable for theirs. As distasteful as it might be, everyone needs to be punished - so causing harm isn't defensible.