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- cortesoft 4y agoThis seems... problematic
- senectus1 4y agoIts not problematic that it exists... its problematic that its possible. and so easily possible.
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- googlryas 4y agoSo basically a database to help you doxx people you have issues with.
- dcow 4y agoYep, that’s travisbrown in a nutshell for ya.
- senectus1 4y agoDoxx or hold people accountable for what they say online? If someone says something of their own free will then puts it in "writing" on the internet of their own free will should they not be accountable for things they say and did of their own free will? Personally I suspect this might be a useful tool for teaching budding new internet users that they're not anonymous when they hit "send". But like any tool that ever existed, the potential for abuse is definitely there.
- HarrySally3 4y agoI wonder if people who express this sentiment will still be doing so when the pendulum swings so far the other way. Will you also be grateful for a massive register that exposes everyone who ever espoused views in favour of LGBT, multiculturalism, etc in a society that condemns and even prohibits such views? Perhaps there's some Middle Eastern theocracy where this scenario exists already. Are you glad that Saudi Arabian trans activists will forever have a target on their backs?
- olah_1 4y agoThis project beautifully highlights the problem with "web3"/"dweb"/decentralized social media projects. What people want is not permanence or anti-censorship. They want to feel safe in an increasingly scary world. I don't want psychos tracking me down and trying to ruin my life because I have a different opinion than them. I just want to have fun with my friends and be left alone.
- jacooper 4y ago> What people want is not permanence or anti-censorship. I agree about uncontrollable permanance, however i think in general people want anti-censorship.
- olah_1 4y agoIt's just that controllable permanence and censorship blocking comes with trade-offs. And most people aren't fully aware of those trade-offs until it's too late. More thinking should be done in terms of UX.
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- jacooper 4y agoThe perfect cancel culture tool.
- Nebasuke 4y agoYeah, Travis seems to have been on a crusade against his detractors for a while now. See also https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture
- jacooper 4y agoTruly amazing.
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- dcow 4y agoWritten by someone who got fired from Twitter for spending way too much time making a political mess of the Scala community. Some people just can’t separate politics from literally everything else so they spend their best years and free time writing tools to cancel and harass people they don’t like and insist other communities act they way they want. Pretty sad, really.
- trbrown 4y agoFor the record I wasn't fired by Twitter. Not sure where you're getting your information from, but it's not very connected to reality.
- dcow 4y agohttps://meta.plasm.us/posts/2015/10/13/goodbye-twitter/ https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2015/10/13/goodbye-twitter/ I remember reading this the day you posted it. I honestly really looked up to you as a Scala community member and open source evangelist. I even attended the talk you hosted at Twitter on using Kleisli arrows for HTTP request composition and processing. I have no issue with your political beliefs but as I stated think it’s quite disappointing to see people invest so much energy into destructive social vigilantism.
- wly_cdgr 4y agoWeird and way creepy
- not_really 4y agotravis brown, the functional clown
- nathanaldensr 4y agoI reported[1] this repository, which seems to be encouraging doxxing or harassment of social media accounts the repository owner (a leftist, from the look of things) doesn't like, to GitHub. [1] https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?category=report-abuse&report=other&report_type=unspecified https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?category=rep... EDIT: implicitly encouraging
- jacooper 4y agoI hope you reported the Cancel-culture repo too.
- woodruffw 4y agoThe README is pretty explicit: it's an archive, meaning that any "doxxing" is whatever the original user accounts uploaded about themselves. That would be a pretty radical deflation of a term that's normally used to describe forcefully deanonymizing someone with information they didn't provide. And I don't see a call for harassment anywhere. The author clearly has opinions, but there's no call to action.
- nathanaldensr 4y agoPeople are free to nitpick the purpose but I think it's pretty clear. I also found the "licensed under the Anti-Capitalist license" pretty amusing, considering they are posting a project on GitHub--owned by Microsoft--and relying on US copyright law.
- woodruffw 4y agoFar be it from me to psychologize him, but I suspect it's no different from Ayn Rand's welfare checks[1]. [1]: https://www.openculture.com/2016/12/when-ayn-rand-collected-social-security-medicare.html https://www.openculture.com/2016/12/when-ayn-rand-collected-...
- dcow 4y agoYou either have no idea who travisbrown is or support this type of behavior. He literally harasses people he doesn’t agree with by defaming their character on any platform and/or forum that doesn't kick him out for breaking community guidelines and CoCs. I’m pretty liberal and think that fits a modern definition of harassment.
- pilgrimfff 4y agoAh good. We can retroactively destroy people's lives as the overton window shifts. What a splendid project.
- woodruffw 4y agoThe Overton Window is a little tired, but it also doesn't apply in the way you're implying: the reactionary accounts linked appear to have become uniformly more reactionary over time. Meanwhile, the course of action (recording everything they say) hasn't changed much.
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- rvz 4y agoYou know this is what Stalin, and North Korea's Kim-Jong Un today would have dreamed of using? Probably will aid in collective punishment or 3 generations of punishment. A tool like this is a noble totalitarians dream which anyone they didn't like can be brought into the light with absolute zero privacy, no path to redemption of past sins, mistakes or accidents and the internet will preserve and shame them forever. The same developers like this one screaming and have hijacked 'open-source' are just helping the surveillance capitalists and dystopian new world order.
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- hirundo 4y agoThe response to @libsoftiktok has created a huge, rapid streisanding of that account. She went from niche to ubiquitous almost overnight and her message has been hugely amplified. There has to be a better reaction than to hand your enemy such a megaphone.
- Trumpi 4y agoLooks like the privacy alarmists were right all along.
- dariusj18 4y agoI'm not sure this counts as privacy, it's all data published publicly by the people themselves.
- Trumpi 4y agoIt does, at least according to several courts. This particular aspect of privacy is famously known as "The right to be forgotten." More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
- dariusj18 4y ago> The right to be forgotten is distinct from the right to privacy. The right to privacy constitutes information that is not publicly known, whereas the right to be forgotten involves removing information that was publicly known at a certain time and not allowing third parties to access the information.
- Trumpi 4y agoAlright. We apologise for incorrectly classifying our concerns. I'm sure that this error justifies the continued violation of our rights.
- RONROC 4y agoSnitching as a Service.
- styluss 4y agoSeems like people here are really against OSINT.