How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by GhotiFish on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:28PM (#9040805)

You'll have to forgive me, because even after you explained it, I still don't understand.

If someone has a link in their signature pointing to an unassigned user name, then grabbing that username could also be interpreted at plugging a security hole as a stop gap measure while the problem is being discussed.

I don't see how it's outrageous. I don't see how you overstepped your bounds.

It's not clear to me what happened here.

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Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by chris_wot on Thursday February 12, 2015 @06:30PM (#9042049)

I think the context is important (it's hard to dig up the edit history for so long ago). I actually was in the wrong about the way I went about things - it was being debated and I really did try to prove a point (though it never occurred to me that I was being disruptive).

The editor in question quite possibly had good intentions, or didn't see anything wrong with what they did. Whilst I was not a malicious actor, there was debate about the situation and I think people objected more to the way I went about proving the point I was making (which I maintain was valid). That's a fair cop, and I accept my action was rash.

But yes, it wasn't outrageous.

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