@bjorn @yashalevine @dgolumbia #torgate

Yes, it was I who originally dug up & reposted that article during Nov 14 to  evidence of the double standard of stalker & rape allegations while integrating/celebrating sexual promiscuity in context of public/USG contractor profiles.

There is a great deal more I will eventually write, but hopefully specific to the comments from you all:

In re "jake.gate", the attempt to make ioerror the ultimate evil hypocrite and the only thing preventing Tor from ..going public? ..reinventing? ..dissolving? Because this episode may have gotten away from its handlers, there is surely a story behind it. For starters, the near daily retractions/refutations of sexual violence.

Appelbaum is a quite obvious tethered goat and buying into the smoke and mirrors behind the accusations while giving folks who literally lie about rape a pass is vile. Truly.

Besides allowing good journalists and folks who purport to be "feminists" an out glossing over facts rather than asking questions, including:

1. The very image/article referenced is an indicator that there is no subtlety in the sexual prevarications/penchants of Appelbaum.

2. The Appelbaum-as-predator narrative relies on the scenario that ioerror was compulssively on the make, unwilling or unable to be subtle; that everyone knew, including at least three TP Ex Dir, who remain unchallenged in the manner they gave a pass to Title VII, workplace safety, AA, &c. Who oversights their accountability and what has been done there?

3. Every woman in Tor, Berlin, breathing was approached by ioerror, although none of these modern, feminists who reject conventional statutes and law enforcement for malicious smear campaigns and designer stitch ups chose to warn one another of the [yet unnamed dangers] of Appelbaum. Why?

And given the above, How did so many arrive at a means work collectively to destroy him?

Is there a standard within the anarcholibcap revenge/reprisal blither? Are these reprisals different than acknowledging ISIS's [daech's] brand of justice has relevance?

I would be interest to hear the responses to "Why no intra-group solidarity/protection before the smear campaign? How is it OK to work collectively to destroy someone's life, but not to do the same to protect potential "victims"?

4. How was there never so much as an intervention, yet there was so much back channeling that the HR person was fired.

5. Men continue to define feminism and violation. As the only interlocutor here with experience as a woman, I'll share a few points I hope you will consider as expert opinion:

a. Between the mashers, the flaneurs[as ioerror is described], & the terribly polite and civilized chaps who ask subtlely as silk, there is no difference. Its all ball [no pun] out of left field when there's no at bat.

b. There is a great deal of GG & other feminist defence that reeks of pure anger, nothing more. I don't know any woman who doesn't endure cat calls, in appropriate familiarity from poorly chosen workplace "humour" to the outré suggestion of sexual dalliance to violation of personal space, being grabbed, touched, rubbed in an elevator, a train, in an hallway or dark street looking for a taxi.

It's jarring, but one who knows this will occur should have a response strategy. And yes, it's not fair. Neither that black parents must to prepare their children to cower and "sam-it-up" as a means to ensure they make it home. That refugees live in conditions of mistreatment and abuse. There is a lot of ugly in the world. I encourage pushing back against it as journalists, academics, citizens. However, band wagoning the least ugly side is never the answer.

6. What was a USG funded NGO doing exposing its contractors to an work environment which violates their rights?

7. Lots of discussion re protocols for termination. What are the standards for hiring?

8. Serious questions to the TP Executive as to the origin and manufacture of the jacobappelbaumdotcom site, the role of contractors who established and contributed to the site. Also, why are Shepard and Macrina still discussing "jake.gate" online?

9. There are also Appelbaum-specific questions:

a. How do you rationalise requesting leaks from others when you yourself wouldn't leak the snowdocs?

b. What means do you use to bridge the gap between DoD contractor and SJW?

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