There's a kiwifarms investigation which purports that Chris Chan may have been manipulated into sexually assaulting his mother by a young cis woman

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[–]JasonNecks[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If you're wondering why I'm not sharing the kiwifarm link or her name, it's not just because this woman might be innocent. It's also because I don't really believe in online shaming campaigns punishing people in ways that be the responsibility of the legal system*. Sometimes it might be necessary for an online campaign against someone to exist in order for the legal system to take interest in said person. Her University has supposedly already been informed of the accusations and has added them to the University's investigation. Presumably the trial of Chris Chan will deal with these accusations as well.

*Although of course if someone commits a horrific crime like murder and gets off with a light sentence, it is tempting to raise awareness about this person if they own businesses that can be boycotted. But that's a separate issue.

[–]lefterfield 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As far as the last point, I'm really not comfortable targeting businesses - especially small businesses - because of the actions of the owner/one person in the company. For one thing, they might be innocent, even if they were convicted by the courts. For another, doing so still hurts their family and other employees, and those people don't deserve to be punished. I think boycotts should be used in the cases of company policies like, use slave labor from China to produce the products. Sadly it seems like no one cares about those issues anymore, just individual crimes.

[–]DorothyGale 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, as someone said above she may be culpable and certainly may be a horrible person but in the end the act itself was committed by Chris and therefore, he is responsible for it. I think things he wrote to Null demonstrate he knew what he was doing was wrong.