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[1] https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?category=rep...
EDIT: implicitly encouraging
And I don't see a call for harassment anywhere. The author clearly has opinions, but there's no call to action.
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.
Or is he also naming and shaming people who call for mass immigration to Europe, those demanding citizenship for illegal aliens in the US, advocates for 'asylum seekers' in Australian detention, etc?
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.
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?
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.
I agree about uncontrollable permanance, however i think in general people want anti-censorship.
More thinking should be done in terms of UX.
and so easily possible.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
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.
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.
[1]: https://www.openculture.com/2016/12/when-ayn-rand-collected-...
But travis very very liberally and unduly applies very serious and damaging labels to people.
“This person didn’t immediately agree with me that this other person is an alt-right white supremacist so they’re a transphobic racist” is not okay.
That’s is where I draw the line. One can make a statement of fact that travisbrown doesn't agree with or for which the implications make the left uncomfortable and he’ll label you a white supremacist racist transphobic bigot which these days can be career ruining. I support people’s freedom to express themselves but I also think we need to hold people accountable for unduly and deliberately trying to ruin people’s lives.
On the other hand, looking at examples from his page identifying people as having issued death threats, I (for example), I can personally vouch for the accuracy of that statement due to familiarity with the individual described. My comment refers to the use of the tool to unmask previous Twitter identities, which can be very useful in tracking the architects of or participants in harassment campaigns. So I have no compunction about using it to that end.
People who regret prior behavior on social media and want to turn over a new leaf have the simple option of starting over with a new account. If they want to change their ID for privacy reasons but hang onto their friends and followers, that seems like a case of wanting to have one's cake and eat it. I don't feel any sympathy for the LibsofTikTok account owner, for example, who hate-tweets about 'drag queen story hour' type events knowing full well that those she tweets about are likely to be crashed by Proud Boys.
(Barring a conviction for defamation, I don't know what a suit says. There have been a handful of defamation lawsuits in the tech community over the last decade, all(?) of which ended in embarrassment for the complainant.)