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It speaks very badly of eBay that such a cultish and abusive group was allowed to exist.

by kenmck 6y ago

mcguire 6y ago
What makes you think such a "cultish and abusive group" is especially uncommon?
- anoncareer0212 6y ago
  Either they are exceptionally good at covering their tracks and silencing victims, or, this is a rare case that people have been writing about for months.
  - mcguire 6y ago
    It isn't always as egregious as the eBay case. SLAPPs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation#United_States_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...) are one example. Then there are Twitter-fests such as Arizona Public Service (https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/07/30/aps-allies-attack-company-critic-on-twitter/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/07/30/aps-allies-attack...), involvement in political campaigns against elected critics (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/technology/amazon-pramila-jayapal.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/technology/amazon-pramila...). On the other hand, there's the Kerr-McGee corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood), Monsanto (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/07/monsanto-fusion-center-journalists-roundup-neil-young https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/07/monsanto-fu...), and Bloomberg LP (https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/828565428/bloomberg-news-killed-investigation-fired-reporter-then-sought-to-silence-his-wi https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/828565428/bloomberg-news-kill...). Corporate investigations is an industry, too. (https://www.aegis.com/investigations/corporate-investigations/#1485386360998-850ea4fe-322b https://www.aegis.com/investigations/corporate-investigation...)
  - nullc 6y ago
    Them getting caught required a bit of extraordinary luck on the part of the victims and a lot of over-confidence on the part of the perps. After almost getting spotted once they came back and the victims managed to get a photo of their tag. Without that the whole thing would probably be dismissed by people as a crazy conspiracy theory.

It speaks very badly of eBay that such a cultish and abusive group was allowed to exist.

by kenmck 6y ago

It speaks very badly of eBay that such a cultish and abusive group was allowed to exist.

mcguire 6y ago

What makes you think such a "cultish and abusive group" is especially uncommon?

anoncareer0212 6y ago
Either they are exceptionally good at covering their tracks and silencing victims, or, this is a rare case that people have been writing about for months.
- mcguire 6y ago
  It isn't always as egregious as the eBay case. SLAPPs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation#United_States_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...) are one example. Then there are Twitter-fests such as Arizona Public Service (https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/07/30/aps-allies-attack-company-critic-on-twitter/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/07/30/aps-allies-attack...), involvement in political campaigns against elected critics (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/technology/amazon-pramila-jayapal.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/technology/amazon-pramila...). On the other hand, there's the Kerr-McGee corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood), Monsanto (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/07/monsanto-fusion-center-journalists-roundup-neil-young https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/07/monsanto-fu...), and Bloomberg LP (https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/828565428/bloomberg-news-killed-investigation-fired-reporter-then-sought-to-silence-his-wi https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/828565428/bloomberg-news-kill...). Corporate investigations is an industry, too. (https://www.aegis.com/investigations/corporate-investigations/#1485386360998-850ea4fe-322b https://www.aegis.com/investigations/corporate-investigation...)
- nullc 6y ago
  Them getting caught required a bit of extraordinary luck on the part of the victims and a lot of over-confidence on the part of the perps. After almost getting spotted once they came back and the victims managed to get a photo of their tag. Without that the whole thing would probably be dismissed by people as a crazy conspiracy theory.