Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign

Re:Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cy... by lioeters on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:02PM (#23530714)

I agree, this is bizarre and disturbing. It was not done by a rogue employee, but rather a coordinated effort.

> a systematic campaign fueled by the resources of a Fortune 500 company to emotionally and psychologically terrorize this middle aged couple in Natick, with the goal of deterring them from writing bad things online about eBay.

What jumped out for me, was that several of the criminals were involved in policing, security, intelligence, surveillance, and "special operations".

It's not hard to imagine that there's a corrupt and unethical streak in this subculture, since they are above the law in some sense. It's only a natural step, to abuse their power and treat the public with contempt or disdain.

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Re:Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cy... by nogabebop23 on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:30PM (#23531130)

not excusing this disgusting behaviour in the least, but I suspect having no relationship whatsoever with the victims helps them dehumanize their targets. People do and say things on the internet they would never conceive of attempting in person, in part because they think they can get away with it and partially because there's no visual linkage between their actions and the pain they cause.

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Re:Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cy... by AdamN on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:44PM (#23534377)

It's not so much they think they can get away with it as the dehumanization is sufficient to override their moral apprehensions.

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