Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

Re:Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in d... by sillysaurusx on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:54PM (#27755839)

You're right. I wish we did though. IVF is so expensive in America that it's cheaper to fly to South Korea and get the procedure done there, by $10's of thousands.

Even still, would 4chan really dare mess with someone's kid? Generally they try to avoid going to prison, or vigilante retribution.

I guess you're right though. Thanks for pointing that out. I can think of a few ways 4chan could troll someone's child without risking themselves.

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Re:Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in d... by immibis on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:34AM (#27758406)

Would 4chan really dare mess with someone? Clearly they do. And they don't care about prison or vigilante retribution in that case.

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Re:Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in d... by fossislife on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:10PM (#27755945)

Here in Germany there is a YouTuber (only 100k subs) who gets daily visits from many trolls. Police already locked up his very small town for outsiders but his young visitors don't seem to care and regularly get fined.

It all started when he posted his address online.

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Re:Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in d... by sillysaurusx on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:31PM (#27756047)

Thank you for this datapoint. I didn't realize that.

I live in a small town myself, relatively speaking (St. Louis isn't exactly a tech hub), so I was thinking that might guard me somewhat. But, my follower count keeps growing for some reason, and stuff like this has been more and more on my mind.

I appreciate it. If you have any links to further info, I'd be curious to read. Otherwise, no worries.

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Re:Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in d... by wildflying on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @12:02PM (#27762624)

> Generally they try to avoid going to prison, or vigilante retribution.

Generally is an important distinction though ;).

Living in fear of falling out of that "generally" is probably not fun.

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