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minus-squareebolapie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 day agoOne of the devs she was complaining about got fired. The blowback hit harder though. She got fired, her (former) employer and her personal blog both got DDOSed, and she received a shitload of graphic death threats. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/pycon-2013-sexism-dongle-richards/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/
One of the devs she was complaining about got fired. The blowback hit harder though. She got fired, her (former) employer and her personal blog both got DDOSed, and she received a shitload of graphic death threats.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/pycon-2013-sexism-dongle-richards/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/