Its coming to the point now that someone being a personality on the Internet isn’t safe anymore from being physically attacked. I’m referring to, of course to Jeremy Hambly, aka “The Quartering” who was viciously attacked in a bar while attending Gen Con, a conference on gaming.
Imagine this: You and a group of friends go out to dinner at a nice restaurant, on your dime. The dinner seems to go well, but you notice that during the dinner each of these people politely excuse themselves from the table for a moment. The next day, you discover that each of these friends during their brief absence from the table were tweeting horrible things about you. How would you react? Would you ever invite these same people to dinner again? Would you be able to trust them in any situation not to stab you in the back?
Edit: I decided to rename this post to better reflect it’s content.
Is it true that the HoneyBadger Brigade had the intent when they attended CalgaryExpo to be expelled? Well, there seems to be at least one person that believes this to be true.
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For some people, it’s all about the harassment of women. Even at so-called “skeptic” conferences, the theme seems to come back, time and again, to the poor women harassed online.
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There’s been a debate online for a couple of years now concerning harassment policies at various conferences.
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