The Internet is for porn, and rabidly ganging up on individuals

I have an acquaintance from Twitter, who works for Zipper Interactive. He is a programmer there, and while I don't believe he worked on the SOCOM series, I know that he spent a lot of hours working on MAG. Despite being a programmer of video games, though, he told me on several occasions that he doesn't play them himself. That gives him one thing in common with Jennifer Hepler.

He, however, did not receive thousands of highly public messages calling him a fat cow, a cancer on the gaming industry, a slut, a whore, or a cunt, for joining Twitter over the weekend. Jennifer Hepler did.

I'm not going to rehash the details of this weekend's events here, as Googling her name will probably give you all the details you could ask for. What I will say is that this phenomenal outpouring of rage, vitriol, and malice makes me question humanity's worth as a species. For people to make such vicious personal attacks so relentlessly astounds me, and it is one instance of a growing number which make me wonder if people have ever been able to live peacefully with one another.