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> very unfortunate if he has schizophrenia but bigotry is not a symptom of it Terry Davis, the late schizophrenic author of TempleOS, had a number of racist ra

> very unfortunate if he has schizophrenia but bigotry is not a symptom of it Terry Davis, the late schizophrenic author of TempleOS, had a number of racist rants and other bigoted and hate-filled videos on YouTube.

1000units 7y ago
He was a gentle, troubled spirit that said the Gamer Word. Did he ever hurt or wrong anybody on racially motivated grounds? He jumped in front of a train after getting shadowbanned on Hacker News. Maybe you're the bad guy. --- Editing in reply to child comment, because I have been banned: Firstly, I thank you for clarifying that he did not literally leap into the train's path at the last moment, but rather sat calmly in front of it awaiting annihilation. This has much more gravitas and speaks well to our fallen brother HNer's character (one never stops being an HNer). Secondly, I feel that ostracizing him from this above-ground tech forum led him to the dangerous places you discuss.
- newnewpdro 7y ago
  > He was a gentle, troubled spirit that said the Gamer Word. Did he ever hurt or wrong anybody on racially motivated grounds? He jumped in front of a train after getting shadowbanned on Hacker News. Maybe you're the bad guy. He live-streamed using racial epithets against people of said race in public. If you think shadowbanning on HN is why Terry committed suicide, you weren't paying attention. He didn't jump in front of the train, he sat on the tracks and waited patiently with his back to it (there's video). What happened to Terry is a textbook example of why vulnerable people need to be supervised on the internet. Trolls posing as his fans had miniature drums sent to him while still living with his elderly parents, playing a significant part in his eventually becoming homeless. They spoofed fake love letters from an internet-famous woman he was clearly obsessed with to anyone watching his live-streams, who would then of course completely ignore his advances. Basically trolls actively messed with Terry, watching the consequences in real-time on his live-streams, as if it were a video game. Steadily pushing him further down a spiral of self-destruction, culminating in taking his own life. I'm saddened by what happened to Terry, and am confident he'd still be among the living had he never discovered YouTube. Live-streaming his daily life was his undoing.
  - dang 7y ago
    Please don't feed egregious comments by replying. This is in the site guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
samfriedman 7y ago
Time Cube could be another well-known example

1000units 7y ago

He was a gentle, troubled spirit that said the Gamer Word. Did he ever hurt or wrong anybody on racially motivated grounds? He jumped in front of a train after getting shadowbanned on Hacker News. Maybe you're the bad guy. --- Editing in reply to child comment, because I have been banned: Firstly, I thank you for clarifying that he did not literally leap into the train's path at the last moment, but rather sat calmly in front of it awaiting annihilation. This has much more gravitas and speaks well to our fallen brother HNer's character (one never stops being an HNer). Secondly, I feel that ostracizing him from this above-ground tech forum led him to the dangerous places you discuss.

newnewpdro 7y ago
> He was a gentle, troubled spirit that said the Gamer Word. Did he ever hurt or wrong anybody on racially motivated grounds? He jumped in front of a train after getting shadowbanned on Hacker News. Maybe you're the bad guy. He live-streamed using racial epithets against people of said race in public. If you think shadowbanning on HN is why Terry committed suicide, you weren't paying attention. He didn't jump in front of the train, he sat on the tracks and waited patiently with his back to it (there's video). What happened to Terry is a textbook example of why vulnerable people need to be supervised on the internet. Trolls posing as his fans had miniature drums sent to him while still living with his elderly parents, playing a significant part in his eventually becoming homeless. They spoofed fake love letters from an internet-famous woman he was clearly obsessed with to anyone watching his live-streams, who would then of course completely ignore his advances. Basically trolls actively messed with Terry, watching the consequences in real-time on his live-streams, as if it were a video game. Steadily pushing him further down a spiral of self-destruction, culminating in taking his own life. I'm saddened by what happened to Terry, and am confident he'd still be among the living had he never discovered YouTube. Live-streaming his daily life was his undoing.
- dang 7y ago
  Please don't feed egregious comments by replying. This is in the site guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

samfriedman 7y ago

Time Cube could be another well-known example