The way the MPT execs became so unhinged and went obsessively hard after their critics (journalists and analysts) is reminiscent of the ebay exec pig mask harassment.

I still get a chuckle that eBay has to have the "we fucked up :(" link on their footer, though now notice that eBay has an infinite scrolling listings view now on their homepage, so you now can't even stay at the "Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the State of Massachusetts" link...

I cannot believe I've never heard of this before...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/case/us-v-ebay-inc

> Jim Baugh, eBay’s former Senior Director of Safety and Security, and six other members of eBay’s security team targeted the victims for their roles in publishing a newsletter that reported on issues of interest to eBay sellers

> Baugh and his co-conspirators executed a harassment campaign intended to intimidate the victims and to change the content of the newsletter’s reporting. The campaign included sending anonymous and disturbing deliveries to the victims’ home, including a book on surviving the death of a spouse, a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig and a funeral wreath and live insects; sending private Twitter messages and public tweets criticizing the newsletter’s content and threatening to visit the victims in Natick; and traveling to Natick to surveil the victims and install a GPS tracking device on their car. The harassment also featured Craigslist posts inviting the public for sexual encounters at the victims’ home.

what the fuck?