Not Just an Annoying Voice but also a Bad Taste in Men

This fracas resurfaced in 2014 when Ayyadurai married Fran Drescher.

from an article at Ars Technica about Shiva Ayyadurai suing Gawker Media for libel.

Gawker’s Gizmodo published several articles (1) (2) on Shiva Ayyadurai and the result:

Months after these articles appeared, Boston Magazine reported that as a result, Ayyadurai’s “speaking engagements have been canceled, the funding for his e-mail lab has evaporated, and his contract to lecture in MIT’s bioengineering department has been revoked.”

And here’s the chortle factor:

Harder further argues that Tomlinson’s work (his RFC #561 describes “network mail” in 1971) is too ancient to be considered proper e-mail.

Reality is HARD!