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The "wildest story of a leaker you dealt with", where they describe bullying a child for perfectly legal behavior, certainly was interesting.

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That was strange. I had to reread it to confirm that he's just talking about some random kid looking at the publicly-available game data files, not an employee or anyone else with special access.

The whole "oh I have totally pure motives for wanting to identify someone saying they're being sexually harassed" angle was a little more concerning. It's wild so many comments thusfar are about that and not about the blatant bullshit around why he hunts down sexual harassment victims.

Yeah, the lawyer's description of the approach there sounded a little off, and that part of the discussion overall sounded... incomplete.

I believe that his job was to protect the company.

Knowing the truth of the situation might be one of the first things they want, but that's not the only thing on their mind and influencing their actions.

As a child who has been bullied by adults for legal behavior this hit home with me. Glad there are more people coming forward.

mind sharing the story? else you've contributed little besides seeding curiosity, and a commented form of an upvote

People can comment however they want

You’ve contributed the commented form of a downvote. As have I. Nether of us contributed to the discussion.

Requesting the parent to share their likely painful memories or else they’ve committed some sin against hn leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.

Exactly. This guy sounds like a massive POS.

> I might have a talk with David. I might say, ‘Listen, I’ve figured out it was you. Do I not seem approachable? Why are you and I not having a conversation about this?’

Talk about an absolute terrible way to approach someone who went public about a sexual harassment claim. From just this article I don't think I'd feel comfortable talking with this dude about anything serious going on.

absolutely terrifying power play from someone who wants you to know both, that they can identify your anonymous activity and that they're unhappy with you. It just stifles further whistleblowing

Yes, that was the line where my bullshit detector went to over 9000.

"Obviously, my job is to protect the organization, but ‘protect the organization’ takes on different meanings to different people. To me, ‘protect the organization’ has always meant: protect your people from bad things."

I have no words to express how far from the truth this is. The only lawyer who protects you is the one you hire. The company lawyer protects the company from you.

Or in the case of sexual harassment, from _both_ of you.

Edit:autocorrect typo

100% that even if that situation were to arrive, it would never go down that way anyway. It's a complete fantasy they have in their head about how they're not the corporate stooge they actually are along with everything else this guy views about himself.

The kid likes Pokémon so much he decided to look around the game and discovered some info, and this guy decides to call the kid up and harass/bully him so everyone will know that you don't just look around in his executables.

Fuck this guy and this company.

Yeah, it sounds like the images were made publicly available by the devs. Maybe he should've gone after the devs instead!

Exactly, that is clearly an engineering issue and this guy only called because he knew it was a child, this guy is so small and insignificant he had to use BULLYING AND HARASSING a child to make him legendary. Lawyers are the worst, man.

It’s pretty clear that he’s proudly projecting an asshole persona throughout the article. I think it’s intentional

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