‘The Apple fanboy problem’

Let this be a lesson. After posts by John Gruber and Shawn King, this happened to Violet Blue. “The misinformation gave a significant number of people fuel to stalk me, attack me for hours at a time, malign, insult me in disgusting ways, threaten me with weapon-specific violent death (an axe), and lead social media attempts to force me to lose my job over the matter. Many referenced John Gruber, and/or his post as they did this. Plans were openly made to make media to attack me – another Angry Mac Bastards podcast.” Disgusting story, and sadly enough, this isn’t the first time this has happened, as Blue notes in her article. I don’t like talking about these matters (you don’t want to know the kind of crap that gets thrown my way at times), but I can assure you my inbox has seen its share of pure vitriol after Gruber links to an OSNews piece. It ain’t pretty.

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