What’s the difference between this and Twitter mobs?
Citizen app sparked a $30k manhunt for the wrong guy
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#12What’s the difference between this and Twitter mobs?
Being location specific provides a veneer of legitimacy.
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#13What’s the difference between this and Twitter mobs?
Probably not much, but the victim would have a better chance suing Citizen than Twitter. Twitter polices it’s platform, but Section 230 provides a good shield for them against user content. Citizen, OTOH, isn’t protected by Section 230 because the company itself issued the notification.
Disclaimer: IANAL
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#14What’s the difference between this and Twitter mobs?
Twitter mobs send words to famous/semi-famous people they have never met.
This on the other hand looks more like a bounty board for self-appointed neighborhood sheriffs.
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#15What’s the difference between this and Twitter mobs?
Being location specific provides a veneer of legitimacy.
I would come from a different angle. Twitter is worse because the target is way more abstract, removed, so the Twitter vigilantes are almost acting on a conceptual plane and don’t care about real life implications.
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#16> “We’re a safety app. We want to keep people safe” You’re a business. You want to turn a profit.
It's a free social networking app. They want to be able to cash out, not be profitable. Engagement, DAUs and MAUs are what matter most.
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#17What’s the difference between this and Twitter mobs?
Twitter mobs send words to famous/semi-famous people they have never met. This on the other hand looks more like a bounty board for self-appointed neighborhood sheriffs.
Twitter trolls act like reeves themselves looking for the people they have an axe to grind with and ruining lives just the same.
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#18Does anyone here also feel like this article was way too long for the content?
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#19Someone needs to sue these people into bankruptcy.
Is it illegal to call someone an arson suspect ? I imagine that wrongly calling someone an arsonist would be libel/slander, but I wonder if things change when you include the word suspect .
While it's not illegal to call someone a suspect, putting a bounty on someone's head might be. You're essentially endangering someone's life. If the person was harmed, they could easily win a massive lawsuit.
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#20> OnAir is a new product with strict validation protocols, which we failed to follow.
Not sure that's how it works.