Unregulated public defamation that could turn an unsuspecting user into a near-universal pariah if the app were to gain traction... sounds like something out of

Unregulated public defamation that could turn an unsuspecting user into a near-universal pariah if the app were to gain traction... sounds like something out of Black Mirror! (There's no doubt in my mind any more that Charlie Brooker is actually from the future.) "Yelp for people" is such a simple concept that if Peeple doesn't do it, someone else will. And they're completely protected by the law as service providers under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati... ... and since abusers practically by definition disregard the risk of personal liability for their actions, the pattern feared by the post author will almost certainly emerge. The confluence of technology and free speech brings out the best in humanity, but it also brings out the worst... and it's the already-marginalized who suffer the most from things like this. The only thing we as technologists and believers in the positive aspects of free speech can do, is to work as hard as we can to build our own visions for the future. And hopefully the good outweighs the bad...