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Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by andybak on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:30PM (#9040822)
> To repeat: she did not deserve ANY bullying or harassment whatsoever.

That wasn't clear. You said the "outcome was fair" - the outcome was that her life was ruined.

Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by gearoidoc on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:38PM (#9040869)
I also said: No one deserves to be bullied or harassed but consequences need to exist to actions.

I meant the outcome from a professional standpoint was fair. I don't believe how her life has been "ruined" as I've explained elsewhere.

Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by tertius on Thursday February 12, 2015 @03:18PM (#9041111)
Clearly the person who fired her only did so because of public outcry, i.e. the bullying. That was in their best interest. It wasn't fair. It wasn't a consequence equal to her action. It may have been equal to the reaction to her tweet, but that reaction was unjust.

The consequences of the bullying, given her being fired, is much worse than if she was not fired. Her ability to compete in the workplace has been severely diminished because of this. Her PTSD that she will probably suffer for a long time has been greatly exacerbated by her firing.

Given the worst intention of her tweet (ignorance), getting fired was still not the right reaction to her "crime."

Do people need to be held accountable to their actions? I agree that they should. Outside of criminal law (since this wasn't criminal), the mob is not the right group to decide what the correct consequence of her actions should be. History shows that this leads to barbarism, which this was a case of.

She didn't get what was coming to her, she got much worse.

Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by zem on Thursday February 12, 2015 @09:11PM (#9042518)
if you think the outcome from a professional standpoint was fair, you have a very bleak and dystopian view of fairness. she was posting something to her own private twitter account in her own time; it had nothing to do with the job.