What company was it?

It never happened. These comments pop up every so often, indicating conspiracy but naming no names, or giving no details.

Isn't that exactly what you would expect if the threats were real? I'm not a believer in conspiracies but some of the large tech companies are well known for trying to silence critics. Although the same could probably be said about any company with so much money and power.

Silicon valley tries to maintain a squeaky clean image, but as we're finding out from Facebook, some of them are no better than say Comcast.

From what I've seen, tech companies generally outsource all the shady bits so they have someone to point fingers at. I've been at companies they've outsourced this work to...

>Isn't that exactly what you would expect if the threats were real?

as soon as it is throwaway account s/he should be safe

A threat emailed, or commented?

Please share what you posted and a copy of the threat.

It was a critique a couple years ago about how big G lost its way, possibly betraying the original wishes of the founders. Contained what may have seemed like insider information, but was largely a summary of Glassdoor reviews and scattered Reddit comments.

Reply was something like "Hi this is so and so from legal, if we hurt you personally you should contact us so we can work through this (yeah right), we take our reputation very seriously". Never checked if it was legit, and stopped using my account soon after.