[quineoa]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scient... [2019]

Turns out people don't want to do business with you when you make comments like that.

Doesn't matter how much cool software you wrote. Or how much you donate. After a certain point people would rather not be involved with your behavior if it doesn't align.

Fortunately in this specific instance we see society taking SA and r**, as serious topics.

Let's hope we have more of this. Maybe one day I'll finally meet a female colleague in the tech industry who _doesn't_ have a harrassment story to share.

[leereeves]

Stallman wrote "the most plausible scenario is she presented herself to [Minsky] as entirely willing."

That's very different from saying she was entirely willing. Taking words out of context to change what someone said is bad, right? Perhaps you should be outraged at Vice.

[alfiedotwtf]

> Turns out people don't want to do business with you when you make comments like that, unless it’s the music industry

FIFY

I find it weird that Michael Jackson is on the radio so often and Chris Brown is still releasing new music and selling out, yet if they were behind a keyboard rather than microphone, they would have been cancelled long ago