My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community

Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by swyx on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:39PM (#26961990)

its a reminder that mob justice is really terrible when it is wrong. we dont have all the facts. we should absolutely take precautions from this guy causing further harm, but the rape accusation needs to go thru the legal process including allowing the accused to defend themselves.

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Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by noobermin on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:41PM (#26962041)

My point is that these are not that analogous. The linked account is one of many accusations against John Pretty. What the comment is referring to is an accusation that sounds like it's one person's word against another and primarily a conflict confined to one HR department. It isn't really "mob justice" then, it's HR siding with one party.

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Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by ummonk on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:13PM (#26962489)

Well, in this instance given that his coworkers sent him a gift basket, it sounds like the mob came to the right conclusions while the institution took the wrong action.

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