V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai of Cambridge, who sues Web sites for disputing his claim that he invented e-mail as a 14-year-old, announced at a right-wing gathering in Washington yesterday that he will run against Elizabeth Warren for US Senate in 2018.
Ayyadurai (left in the photo) opened his campaign with an announcement at a party by a group called MAGA3X outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
One of MAGA3X's organizers is Mike Cernovich, who played a key role in the misogynist GamerGate movement, which went after Boston-area game developer Brianna Wu. Wu is now running as a Democrat against incumbent US Rep. Stephen Lynch.
In a tweet, Ayyadurai said his platform will be to "Defend the American Dream!" He adds:
Time to take fight right into the belly of the beast in MA, the epi-center of Fake News, Fake History & Fake Science!
He joins Allen Waters, a retired financial consultant from Mashpee. On his Web site, Waters calls himself "a middle class, Cape Cod family man with blue-collar roots," but in a Globe article last month he stepped that up to "an angry, conservative black man with a chip on his shoulder."
Also looking at running as a Republican against Warren are failed game developer Curt Schilling and online aftermarket auto-parts magnate Rick Green.
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On.....
By lbb
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 10:01am
...the Scott Lively ticket.
Funny that you bring up India
By Kinopio
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 11:36am
Funny that you bring up India. One of your fellow Trump supporters/gun nuts just shot 2 guys from India at a bar in Kansas(one of the many shithole red states). Why did he shoot them? He was inspired to be a hateful racist by Trump and thought they were Middle Eastern(apparently that is a crime now under Trump). Deplorable.
https://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2017/02/...
Inventor of email? Silly, silly, silly.
By Daan
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 4:52pm
He claims that he invented email because he received a copyright for the term email. Of course that means that every software company that uses the term email should be paying him a licensing fee. Guess what? They don't; he didn't.
Instead of beating the dead horse that you enjoy beating into dust try educating yourself on the real snake oil salesmen. This fellow claims that he discovered the holy grail of physics: A theory that encompasses all lessor theories of physics (putting into laymen's terms to keep things simple).
If he had his name would be as famous as Einstein and Hawking (whom he references in his Amazon bio). Well, his name is not that famous. As for inventing email he claims that he invented email when the technology was already in common use in business. He didn't invent email. Email goes as far back as the earliest versions of the internet.
So instead of the usual bogus ad hominem attacks against a woman that you clearly personally dislike, try doing some research to sound like someone who is educated and is actually an old dog who can learn new tricks, instead of old dog who is afraid to leave his dog house.
Literally shaping up to be
By me
Sat, 02/25/2017 - 7:56pm
a basket of deplorables.
IKR?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 02/25/2017 - 8:11pm
The Republican primary will most certainly be popcorn worthy.
[img]https://media4.giphy.com/media/d3YQCPcckxQiYibe/20...
2 questions, if I may:
By anon
Sat, 02/25/2017 - 9:39pm
1) We should be a one party state and country?
2) You love mocking the Republicans (and I'm not a Republican); but, they've won most of the state houses, the executive and congress.
Well, really three questions:
3) Why did the Democrats perform so poorly?
Three answers
By adamg
Sat, 02/25/2017 - 10:04pm
1) No.
2) Gerrymandering (at least for state legislatures and the House).
3) The Democrat won the popular vote. Yes, she failed to account for what happened, but it's not like it was a landslide election.
1. no. But any political
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 02/25/2017 - 10:07pm
1. no. But any political party should be able to field people who understand what the Constitution says and what the rule of law means.
Also, you know why MA is a "one party" state? Jokes like these.
2. Because they cheat by gerrymandering and through voter suppression.
3. Because the GOP cheats by gerrymandering and through voter suppression and the Electoral College is skewed versus the "poor performance" of Clinton winning the popular vote.
#3
By Bugs Bunny
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 3:24am
LOL. Tell your girl HRC to visit MI/WI next time.
She was not my first choice
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 1:50pm
I held my nose.
That said, she didn't lose - she won the popular vote.
No 'doctor' Swirly,
By anon
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 5:10pm
she lost. And since you are such a hardcore political true believer partisan, if a 'progressive' candidate won the electoral college, you and I both know you'd be singing a different tune.
FYI
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:46pm
I've been suspicious of that electoral college since I was a freshman high school debater. So, no, I think the whole thing stinks regardless of who "wins" the slave state votes that count more than ours.
3. It's not a "them" problem
By Refugee
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 11:37am
3. Gerrymandering is not a "they" problem. It's a "we" problem. The word itself came from Massachusetts, and it's a thing here.
And still spreading the myth that Clinton won the popular vote? Nobody "won" the popular vote for president last year. Without a runoff, we don't know who would have gotten 50.1%. The blame for that is our voting system that creates a two party system, easily fouled up by third party candidates.
The core problem is not Republicans or Democrats. It's three things: campaign finance, redistricting, and single vote ballots. Those three problems and what makes our political system (in MA and outside MA) so partisan. They give us awful candidates to choose from, in both primary and general elections. They're also what paralyzes our legal system, leaving the courts to decide so many issues that should be decided by new legislation.
Sort of
By lbb
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 10:41am
It's definitely a thing here, and results in noncompetitive elections, but it's not a "keeping out the Republicans" thing. Unless you can point to a Congressional District map that 1)makes more sense and 2)would likely result in a Republican getting elected?
I'd add (perhaps as a footnote to the first) for-profit politics in general. It may start with campaign finance, but it reaches its crescendo as politicians secure their after-Congress nest eggs in the form of positions on boards, as lobbyists, etc.
When the Republican candidate
By anon
Tue, 02/28/2017 - 12:57pm
When the Republican candidate for a race is someone who nobody would take seriously, then we effectively are a one-party state.
Or help fund the fight against Ayyadurai
By Maggard
Sat, 02/25/2017 - 11:54pm
Check out this BoingBoing blog entry explaining the case, the defense fund, and the t-shirt.
sigh
By cybah
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 12:00pm
So this guy just abuses the court system. Sorry his story about inventing email is about believable as "fake news". Sure he can provide some source code, but everyone knows a 'mail system' existed long before his "email" ever did and has been publicly discussed in RFC's long before 1978.
Honestly looks like this guy is using the court system as a payday. He may have a case that wins, but doesn't make it right for him to do so. And honestly, as someone who does this for a living and spent a few minutes reading the newest case, the court system is stupid in believing him or even hearing his case. But then again, the courts have been known not to be very tech savvy.
He's a scam artist plain and simple and using the court system to further his scam and get paydays out of it.
And he wants to be our Senator. Nah.
Abusing the court system
By lbb
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 10:45am
Over the Christmas holiday -- when I should have been on vacation -- I got stuck on jury duty for two weeks in a civil case that should have been settled, but where both parties were convinced that if they just were a big enough pain in the ass, they'd get a payoff. It was the biggest shit show imaginable, and both parties went away disappointed -- but without having learned enough to keep them from further litigation, I'm afraid. I really hate people like this.
Inventing things other people already did
By Sock_Puppet
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 11:02am
The first email was sent in 1971. By 1973, email was 75 percent of Arpanet traffic.
And then this jamoke "invented" email in 1978. Brilliant.
Does it make it easier to invent things that already exist?
I think I'll invent a sort of message board on the internet where news about Boston can be posted, with commentary by users.
But you know who's a total phony?
By Scratchie
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 2:09pm
But you know who's a total phony?
Sen. Warren.
So some guy named "Adam" says he created UHub.
By bulgingbuick
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 9:11am
Well he'd better have a good lawyer.
Echomail Alums Speak up!
By Friartuck
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 3:04pm
This sh*tbag can only have been emboldened in this due to the efforts of a similar paranoid bully who was just recently elected to the oval office
Half these comments of grumpy
By anon
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 4:39pm
Half these comments of grumpy Liberals contain swear words. You all amaze me with your classlessness
Fuck, you actually counted them all?
By adamg
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 4:56pm
That's pretty damn impressive.
Curt is that you?
By Matt Frank
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 7:35pm
Curt is that you?
So sorry to trigger you
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 8:17pm
We didn't know that the entire internet was supposed to be some giant fucking safe space for fragile pearl clutching morons.
Oops ... I did it again.
Such a fucking sensitive
By jmeltzer
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:01am
Such a fucking sensitive snowflake.
I think the correct name is Mike
By The Beer Guy
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 8:46am
"There's no such thing as Date Rape" Cernovich.
Gross individual. BFFs with disgraced General Flynn.
And then this gem is posted this morning
By cybah
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 9:18am
Thanks to Steve Koczela for this gem
"the tone and content of #MASen 2018"
By lbb
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 11:03am
So let's get real about this.
In 2014 a fecal smear named Scott Lively ran for governor of Massachusetts. I won't be too surprised if none of you have heard of his campaign; you might have heard of his activities in Uganda and elsewhere, targeting LGBT people and encouraging decriminalization of homosexuality. During his gubernatorial campaign (such as it was), Lively actually got a seat at one of the debates. He's the sort of deeply delusional smug that it wouldn't be possible to actually laugh him off a stage, but suffice it to say that no one went away thinking, "Yeah, that guy Scott Lively, he's the one." He ran without the endorsement of any party, not even some made-up fly-by-night religious wackadoo party, and his political career ended without even a whimper. He's now off trying to keep his meal ticket valid by peddling religiously motivated hate -- always a solid sector, but not such a big seller in Massachusetts as elsewhere.
As sad and tattered and confused as the Massachusetts Republican Party is, there is exactly zero chance of them endorsing Captain Email. Fishy might make a few bucks coaching him on race-baiting, and I'm sure Scott Brown could give him some sartorial tips, but this one doesn't even have the legs to get to the starting line, much less have a measurable affect on "the tone and content" of the election.
well lbb
By cybah
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 11:41am
I know who Scott Lively is.. ugh. disgrace of a human being, and shameful to call himself a Christian. (and I think you mean 'criminalization' not 'decriminalization' )
And I agree. There's no way the GOP here in this state would support Shiva.. but then again, what other choices do they have. Schilling? Who supported Milo Yiannopoulos via a tweet he promptly deleted. (or something where he supported Milo and his opinions of pedophilia or something like that). Along with how he milked the Tax Payers of RI for .38 Studios.
Not sure who else would run as a GOP candidate...
We know who won't run
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:44pm
Those Republicans with moderate views and working brains (yes, there are some). They won't run unless there is a snowball's chance in hell that they could win.
The present crop just validates what many of our finest r-trolls are constantly denying: Warren is a very strong candidate to retain her seat, and nobody gives two tubes of fecal matter for the fauxcahontas bullshit that got Scotty Barncoat laughed out of the state.
I'm sure Scott Brown could
By Scratchie
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:14pm
Maybe Sen. Barnjacket could help find him another state to live in.
nah
By cybah
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:27pm
Scott Brown is being picked to be the ambassador to New Zealand...
Really?
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:34pm
That works, actually.
So if Shiva loses...
By CraigInDaVille
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 9:38am
... does that make him the Sacko?
Misreported
By Refugee
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 3:08pm
Ayyadurai's claim is not that he "he invented e-mail ". It's that he invented "EMAIL". As far as I can tell, he can claim credit for first coining the term EMAIL, and for developing the first electronic mail application that resembles a modern email client in the way it's organized (inbox, address book, etc). At the time, Unix Mail was still built like a geek tool. His mail client was built like an office tool.
The scope of Ayyadurai's contribution is certainly small, since his application never became famous, and Unix Mail was headed in that direction anyway.
He's basically making a claim like "First Post!" in an internet comment section. Sure, he's first, but it doesn't really matter.
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