Re:The PyCon Incident
by katbyte on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @09:42PM
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There isn't an outrage because she spoke up, there's an outrage because she publicly identified and shamed them over something so minor. It should have gone no further then her contacting the event staff and how they resolved it
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So, I'm wondering what world you all live in where posting a photograph of someone with no name or identity attached is "publicly shaming" them.
well i could be a smart ass and say a world with face recognition & the internets.
Or just point out that in the photo https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/313417655879102464/...
you can clearly see both their badges (with names) and their are wearing their companies t-shirt. Also she really should have cropped it because the poor man on the left is going to be mistaken for the one of them now.
"Alex" something? I can't read that.
And I think their company might have more than one bearded guy on staff, so it's hardly obvious.
Yeah, but I can, and I found him in 30 seconds. And that's the guy who was not fired, and who may not have anything to apologize for. As best I can tell it was the person sitting to his left that lost his job.
It's disingenuous to dismiss photos as anonymous when it's so easy to either crowdsource or reverse-engineer someone's identity. If you weren't aware of how easy it is, then I politely suggest you're a little naive.
Not to mention there is a guy in the photo who wasn't involved at all and just happened to be sitting there and allot of people are mistaking him for the guy who was fired. Sucks to be him right now.