Reddit mob threatens 16 year old girl coder with rape threats and abuse
https://boingboing.net/2018/02/12/reddit-mob-threatens-16-year-o.html
When Harshita Arora, 16, posted about her cryptocurrency price
tracking app on Reddit, she was falsely accused of plagiarism
and then abused online and even threatened with rape by men
who couldn't accept that she'd created the app without a man
to help her. Arora, who lives in a small town in India,
studied computer science in school and was accepted into an
MIT summer program where she learned to build apps ... "I
doubt the girl herself came up with the idea and hired the
contractor(s) herself. She's a 16 year old girl, she doesn't
have the wherewithal or funds to do it herself (hiring the
contractor, or coding the app)," one commenter wrote. "She's
trying to look pretty for boys in her class, worrying about
what the bitch Jessie said to Brittany about Cloe who likes
Brian even though he so likes Ciara, and sitting in her room
listening to 21 pilots or whoever. That's my take anyway."
- - -
Waiting for Trump to tweet that Reddit deserves "due process" about
this, because he always sides with the abusers. ALWAYS.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren
Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com
Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues
Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org
PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
_______________________________________________
pfir mailing list
https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
