Offended employee's tweets sets off social media tsunami
by Lynne Curry
When female tech developer Adria Richards heard a group of men sitting behind her at a conference make sexist comments, it grossed her out. She tweeted their picture to her 9,000 followers with the caption "Not cool. Jokes about forking repo's in a sexual way and 'big' dongles. Right behind me." ...
Richards' tweet set off a social media tsunami and led to one of the jokers and Richards being fired. Richards' critics blasted her, protested that the men were only making childish geek jokes and threatened her with rape and death threats. While her former CEO said his company supported Richards' right to report offensive sexual comments, he said she crossed the line by tweeting the men's comments and photographs.
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