Can everyone shut up about Kathy Sierra?
My god, can we shut up about Kathy Sierra? As everyone who’s covered this story agrees, the death threats and murder-rape scenarios that anonymous forum users posted about the game developer and author are despicable. (The backstory: Sierra cancelled a speaking engagement at ETech, a major tech conference, after anonymous commenters on a third-party forum spewed the aforementioned hate speech at her.) Since Sierra announced the incident on her blog this Monday, readers have posted over a thousand comments. But the uproar didn’t stop there; every damn blogger has chimed in. Even the blogger-obsessed San Francisco Chronicle ran the debate on the front page. The topics: Whether the owners of the forum are responsible, whether women should protect themselves, whether men should protect women…It’s great that we all got a chance to spout off for a week. That’s fantastic, I’m proud of all of you for taking that BOLD STAND and not supporting rape and murder. But aren’t we forgetting to, you know, track down the perps? And maybe we should all shut up until that’s done?
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on March 31, 2007 at 10:37 pm Blogger Code of Conduct? No Thanks - from The Zero Boss by Jay Andrew Allen wrote:
[...] who are falling all over themselves to “take a BOLD STAND against rape and murder”, as Blogebrity puts it? The Sufferable Ass summarizes the situation perfectly: the very freedom that allows Kathy [...]