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LaT (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} latxcvi) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunnybusiness, |
That standard has been broken before, and the people who broke it got roundly criticized for it.
"She did it first!" isn't an excuse.
You keep wanting to pretend that this is the equivalent of a shipping war gone bad on-line, even though you've now repeatedly been told that isn't the case. This young woman went to a real life event, violated other people's real life privacy, did it all under her own name, and then came back and posted the evidence of her shitty behavior to the Internet using a screenname that she herself linked to her real name.
This is not, as you keep trying to posit it as being, a situation where (1) she engaged in all of this behavior solely on-line under a pseudonym that could not be easily linked to her real name, but (2) Internet detectives nevertheless used their Google-fu skills to find her real name and went ahead and posted that information. For all intents and purposes, she "outed" herself when she engaged in the bad behavior in the first place at the real life con and then made the initial post about it to SA (and she "outed" herself while engaging in the behavior IRL because she was walking around doing all that crap while wearing a badge with her real name on it). If she had not done that, then I'd agree with you that it's wrong of people to bandy her real name about in all of the fall-out from her behavior. But she did do that, and as someone else noted in another conversation about this, "if she wanted to keep her name out of it, then she should have kept her trolling to the Internet and not taken it into real life."
I do agree that people should not contact her employer/graduate program over this. But the on-line fallout from it strikes me as the reasonable consequences she should have expected.
"She did it first!" isn't an excuse.
You keep wanting to pretend that this is the equivalent of a shipping war gone bad on-line, even though you've now repeatedly been told that isn't the case. This young woman went to a real life event, violated other people's real life privacy, did it all under her own name, and then came back and posted the evidence of her shitty behavior to the Internet using a screenname that she herself linked to her real name.
This is not, as you keep trying to posit it as being, a situation where (1) she engaged in all of this behavior solely on-line under a pseudonym that could not be easily linked to her real name, but (2) Internet detectives nevertheless used their Google-fu skills to find her real name and went ahead and posted that information. For all intents and purposes, she "outed" herself when she engaged in the bad behavior in the first place at the real life con and then made the initial post about it to SA (and she "outed" herself while engaging in the behavior IRL because she was walking around doing all that crap while wearing a badge with her real name on it). If she had not done that, then I'd agree with you that it's wrong of people to bandy her real name about in all of the fall-out from her behavior. But she did do that, and as someone else noted in another conversation about this, "if she wanted to keep her name out of it, then she should have kept her trolling to the Internet and not taken it into real life."
I do agree that people should not contact her employer/graduate program over this. But the on-line fallout from it strikes me as the reasonable consequences she should have expected.
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