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Re: Memory.lol

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Post by anigbrowl »

dcow wrote: post #47
anigbrowl wrote: post #44

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I know absolutely nothing about Brown as an individual or the Scala community in which he seems to be a controversial figure, so I can well understand anger from people who feel they have been falsely mislabeled or seen that happen to their colleagues. 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 tha…

Quite frankly all this stuff is so far beyond petty to me these days I mostly just avoid it. Undoubtably travisbrown has been right a few times. Point is, I disagree with the premise entirely. As a society, we must tolerate some ugly hurtful trolls if it means we don’t harass the livelihood out of normal people with diverse points of view. Ethically for me it’s better to let a bothersome troll go unpunished than to u…

I fully get your point about harmless people that find themselves embroiled in manufactured controversy over a personal or carelessly phrased opinion. However, I don't think you have much/any experience dealing with aggressive people in the real world. Some of them are quite violent, and often have tacit or overt support from police.

Re: Memory.lol

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Post by trbrown »

dcow wrote: post #17
jacooper wrote: post #5

The perfect cancel culture tool.

Written 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.

For 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.

Re: Memory.lol

#53

Post by trbrown »

woodruffw wrote: post #40
dcow wrote: post #38

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He’s actually been sued for defamation and there’s a bunch of history that isn't on his public Twitter account.

Okay. I'm going based on what I saw on his blog. I'll reserve further judgement. (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.)

For the record I've never been sued for defamation (I was once sent a cease-and-desist letter by John De Goes, a Scala conference organizer who didn't like that I had publicized things he'd said and done, but he was bluffing and never even replied to my lawyer's response).

Re: Memory.lol

#54

Post by dcow »

trbrown wrote: post #52
dcow wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Written 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.

For 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.

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.

Re: Memory.lol

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Post by dcow »

trbrown wrote: post #53
woodruffw wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay. I'm going based on what I saw on his blog. I'll reserve further judgement. (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.)

For the record I've never been sued for defamation (I was once sent a cease-and-desist letter by John De Goes, a Scala conference organizer who didn't like that I had publicized things he'd said and done, but he was bluffing and never even replied to my lawyer's response).

Huh, didn't realize that was an empty threat. My bad.

Re: Memory.lol

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Post by Trumpi »

dariusj18 wrote: post #45
Trumpi wrote: post #42

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It 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

> 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.

Alright. We apologise for incorrectly classifying our concerns. I'm sure that this error justifies the continued violation of our rights.

Re: Memory.lol

#57

Post by drcongo »

nathanaldensr wrote: post #9

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

OMG, not a leftist!

Re: Memory.lol

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Post by drcongo »

HarrySally3 wrote: post #49
kitschyred wrote: post #32

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The phrase "he doesn't like" is doing a lot of work in this whole thread isn't it? Makes it sound like Travis is scraping other people's data for not having the same favourite colour that he does. However, the people presented as examples in the README are nazis, scammers, homophobes and transphobes. It's an interesting way of minimising calls for genocide.

I'm betting the kind of genocide he likes escapes condemnation though. 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?

Do you know what genocide means?

Re: Memory.lol

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Post by HarrySally3 »

drcongo wrote: post #58
HarrySally3 wrote: post #49

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I'm betting the kind of genocide he likes escapes condemnation though. 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?

Do you know what genocide means?

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