I stand behind my comment from the original post here. Her account was fictionalised to the point of not being recognisable. The other side of the story could have be its own fiction for all I care, but this isn't about a strong successful woman. It's about some fundie religious guy stalking his brother to prevent a divorce caused by allegedly falling into the "internet marketing lifestyle" that MeanSite2 rallies against.
Internet drama is a great way to relax at night.
Edit: And after upon further reflection this Dave Navarro fellow didn't like his life and found a new family unit online, which includes our heroine. Not agreeing with the fundie's methods (which do seem psychotic) but it does seem this guy ditched his family for the fast and furious world of internet marketing.
The description sounds too similar to be a coincident. Not saying it's the same person, but the same pattern that's described in the article (which was apparently repeated at a bunch of different companies as a standard practice).
He came to visit our office (YC '12 company) a few times and spoke with our team in very small fireside like gatherings. Dude always gave me a very creepy vibe. Something aint right there.
"I hope that when you see stories like that - because you will - you use their comment strings to express your outrage for being the kind of scumbags who would put their own hunger for unique visitors and pageviews ahead of a man’s right to privacy."
>Is this actually happening though? If so, who is doing it and how?
It's possible but a lot of the reports are clearly coincidences. Take this example of someone watching 'Catch Me If You Can' 2 days ago, and then yesterday seeing a HN posting about the main character and finding it hard to accept as coincidental.[0]
Our national broadcaster NRK had a series[1] specifically about suicide amongst teenage girls and their use of Instagram. From what they found[2], one suicide would trigger other attempts, often copying the method used.
[1] https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-ub...
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