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Comment by TillE | Hacker News Reader

This tweet in particular is just jaw-droppingly stupid: "Tor had the chance to nip this in the bud back when Jake was just a plagiarist. They ignored it, and he graduated to sexual assault."

https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/738802325565755392

I'm all for believing accusers as a default position, but where the fuck is the actual accusation? It's all vague and secondhand.

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Not to mention that it turns out he actually wasn't a plagiarist and there was a misunderstanding on both sides. Also throughout the ordeal Jacob seemed to handle it reasonably.

Edit: I didn't think my parent comment was inflammatory, but it's been flagged...so just to provide context for this follow-up, here are two sources to consider:

# Meredith's and Jacobs previous interaction regarding her referred to plagiarism incident https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/302261054497509376

# Public email thread on otr-dev about the event in question http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.otr.devel/1546

That email thread is worth a read. There were some serious misunderstandings and petty drama in there and it's hard to take any unsubstantiated accusations seriously after reading that.

I just recall the mobbing of Jake against Asher Wolf that made her freak out...

slightly OT but clicking at all those twitter threads, and not being a twitter user myself, I'm having an extremely hard time understanding how the conversation(s) flow. What a terrible interface !

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