Here is how elevatorgate's storifying is harassing women:
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/08/15/s ... ent-496938
Breaking in.... What's interesting about the Salon article is how much elevatorgate's activities don't match the activities in the article, namely, trolling, doxing, and ddos. (with perhaps some argument on the trolling). It's also interesting what Wendy Kaminer, former board member of the ACLU and free speech advocate has to say:
Legally speaking, “you can heckle a speaker but you can’t drown them out,†explains Wendy Kaminer, a lawyer, author and free speech advocate. Drowning out speakers or preventing them from speaking by threatening to create a violent reprisal is called “the Heckler’s Veto.â€
With legal recourse either unavailable or unenforceable, does the speech of trolls – online hecklers actively seeking to silence their targets – constitute a Heckler’s Veto? Kaminer says no.
Compare to the rest of the explanation:
Now, let’s try a thought experiment.
Imagine that every time you leave your house, unless you’re behind closed doors such that it’s physically impossible for anyone besides the person you’re talking to to hear you, everything you say is written down, with a note as to when and to whom you said it. Trying to talk more so that the guy doing it gets tired and goes away doesn’t work; there are no limits on his ability to record everything you say. Several times a day, he contacts you, just to remind you he’s doing it.
Now, imagine that he’s sharing these notes with a few dozen of his closest friends, some of whom have a tendency to act like the very worst of 4chan when bored or annoyed. Any time you say *anything* they don’t like, they contact you in every way they can manage to let you know just what they think of you. And it’s not all “dude your dumb & u suck.†Some of it is the kind of messages Kelly Diels talks about in that Salon piece. It’s extremely graphic threats, it’s constant spamming, maybe it’s doxing or DOS attacks on your blog.
Suppose you’re a woman, and among the things that they don’t like are women who disagree with them about anything, no matter how trivial.
Further suppose that sometimes they’re bored, and don’t wait for you to say something controversial like “transgender people should have the same rights as everyone else.†You never know whether today is the day that asking a supermarket clerk in an unfamiliar store where the oatmeal is will lead to thousand-word diatribes about how you’re a stupid fucking cunt who’s too lazy to read the goddamn aisle markers and someone should beat some consideration into you.
And sometimes, when you’re talking to a friend about one of the things that annoys these guys, the guy writing down everything you say starts ALSO writing down everything your friend says. And now your friend is under attack too.
As if that weren’t enough, sometimes the guy writing everything down decides to splice bits of different conversations together, so that it looks like you’ve said things you would never say. Your frustrated exclamation while watching basketball that the center should just go ahead and shoot already gets put into a whole different context, so anyone who sees it thinks that you’re advocating violence. You have no way to make him take down those spliced conversations.
Now imagine this going on for weeks or months. Rebecca Watson has been living with it (albeit only relatively recently through Storify) for two years. Ignoring it doesn’t stop it. Trying to fight back makes it worse. The only thing that can make it go away is for you to stop speaking.
How long before you start censoring what you say in public? How long before you find yourself saying less and less about anything?
Suppose that finally, someone is willing to listen to you, and says that he’ll help you.
And his big solution is to make the guy writing everything down stop telling you that he’s doing it.
The rest of the explanation goes right to what Kaminer says, Trolling doesn’t interfere with articles and blog posts published online in the same way that a speaker can be silenced at a live event.
http://i.imgur.com/54SNfS0.jpg
To paraphrase the explanation then,
blah, blah, blah, vagina, blah, blah, women are so frail that they must be protected from ugly speech they neither have to read nor be aware of (*), blah, blah, blah. (*) once Storify implements a per user block on
notifications.
Truly, this is the kind of shit a modern SF author endorses?
To the best of my knowledge, elevatorgate's has never been accused of:
* doxing,
* ddosing
* defamation
* hacking
* pornifying (compare to what happened to tf00t
and elevatorgate's activities are not directed to one person, nor directed to women, but are directed at a specific but broad group of feminist atheist women and men that he disagrees with on philosophical/political grounds.
Further, elevatorgate's activities seek to put tweets and other online activities into a context, illuminate them, make them more understandable.
All of this seems to be not just non-threatening, but fair-use, and valuable contributions towards understanding atheismplus and atheismplus philosophy and it's backers.
This is the kind of activity a modern SF author is against!?
