Comment by moomin

Let's be clear here, Jon Ronson spent a fair bit of time lying to Adria Richards to put together his book, his portrayal of the timeline is inaccurate and even if this wasn't the case it'd be a phenomenal amount of false equivalence:

http://www.shakesville.com/2015/02/the-falsest-of-false-equi...

TL;DR; Yeah he got fired, but he didn't get fired because of an internet backlash.