Woman Publicly Fired For Tweeting About "Sexual Jokes"

1. Adria Richards, developer evangelist for SendGrid, an email infrastructure company, was allegedly terminated Thursday for tweeting about sexually inappropriate comments during a company conference.

Source:  @adriarichards

2. Last week, during PyCon US 2013, a developer conference in California, Richards tweeted about a couple of male developers behind her making lewd comments about "dongles."

Source:  @adriarichards

Source:  @adriarichards

4. Richards' wrote about the incident on her blog:

A few minutes later, one of the PyCon staff member approached to the left. I stood up, went outside to talk with him and explain the situation with a few of the other PyCon staff. They had seen my tweet. After explaining, they wanted to pull the people in question from the main ballroom. I walked back in with the PyCon staff and point them out one by one and they were escorted to the hallway.

As I walked back to my seat, I cannot tell you how proud I was of the PyCon and Python community at the very moment for keeping their word to make the conference a safe place to be. A bit shaken, I took my seat to continue watching the lightning talks. I sent an updated tweet that the situation was being dealt with and later on, PyCon tweeted they had addressed the issue

5. In the last day or so the hashtag #Donglegate began filling up with tweets, some supporting Richards' decision, and others not so much.

Source:  @devora_

Source:  @attritionorg

Source:  @shannonsistrunk

Source:  @grap3_ap3

9. Richards' employer, SendGrid, issued this statement about #Donglegate of their Facebook page Thursday:

Source:  facebook.com

10. Tech blog VentureBeat is reporting that after Richards' termination was announced, Anonymous began an attack:

Source:  @SendGrid

11. Anonymous began hitting the SendGrid servers with a DDOS attack, effectively shutting down service for their customers.

Source:  support.sendgrid.com

Source:  @tanepiper

13. Twitter user @ThisIsBrooks summed up #Donglegate thusly:

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(h/t Jessica Valenti)

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