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Re: Memory.lol

#21
The 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.

Re: Memory.lol

#22

I 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=rep... EDIT: implicitly encouraging

The 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.

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#24
post #16

You 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. T…

One supposes that Stalin dreamt of sufficient firepower and prisons, not Twitter APIs.

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#25

I 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=rep... EDIT: implicitly encouraging

The 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.

People 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.

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#26

I 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=rep... EDIT: implicitly encouraging

The 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.

You 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.

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#27
post #16

You 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. T…

One supposes that Stalin dreamt of sufficient firepower and prisons, not Twitter APIs.

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#29
post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 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.

You 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.

You're right, I didn't know who he was. But I read some of his posts just now. He's clearly very angry (it's not healthy to be so angry), but I also don't see anything that meets a standard of defamation. He seems to have receipts for just about every potentially defamatory claim he makes, which presumably come from this big Twitter archive of his.

Re: Memory.lol

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 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.

People 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.

Far 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-...

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