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What mechanism prevents me fabricating stories about my competitors or people I just don't like in order to get them blacklisted as happened during McCarthyism?

What mechanism prevents me fabricating stories about my competitors or people I just don't like in order to get them blacklisted as happened during McCarthyism? That seems the be the problem they were unable to solve back then.

anigbrowl 9y ago
That's trivially easy to safeguard against. One could, for example, keep recordings of one's business conversations.
- KekDemaga 9y ago
  I claim you called me a "stupid do do head", prove you did not. More on why this is very hard: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance John of England on the subject: "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land."
  - s73ver 9y ago
    Ok. You've now reported that to me, the Keeper of the List. Prove your claim. Prove that you're credible. Seriously, it's not as easy as, "Someone made a complaint. Ban the subject for life." There will be people who will be evaluating the credibility of the claims.
    - mst 9y ago
      Right, this is YC we're talking about, not the Drupal Association.
  - anigbrowl 9y ago
    Your trolling game is less than impressive. Try coming up with something responsive.
geofft 9y ago
The fact that this database is being run by actual people involved in the industry who have a sense of how to assign credibility to a story based on knowing the people involved, and not by a computer that is blindly appending to a list when you make an API call. There's also the convenient fact that when you ask people about incidents of harassment, they tend to go "I'm sorry she felt uncomfortable" instead of "I never did it." The responses of creeps Chris Sacca, Justin Caldbeck, Pavel Curda, Dave McClure, and Marc Canter to the recent accusations against them are excellent examples of this. So, you can just ask them.

anigbrowl 9y ago

That's trivially easy to safeguard against. One could, for example, keep recordings of one's business conversations.

KekDemaga 9y ago
I claim you called me a "stupid do do head", prove you did not. More on why this is very hard: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance John of England on the subject: "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land."
- s73ver 9y ago
  Ok. You've now reported that to me, the Keeper of the List. Prove your claim. Prove that you're credible. Seriously, it's not as easy as, "Someone made a complaint. Ban the subject for life." There will be people who will be evaluating the credibility of the claims.
  - mst 9y ago
    Right, this is YC we're talking about, not the Drupal Association.
- anigbrowl 9y ago
  Your trolling game is less than impressive. Try coming up with something responsive.

geofft 9y ago

The fact that this database is being run by actual people involved in the industry who have a sense of how to assign credibility to a story based on knowing the people involved, and not by a computer that is blindly appending to a list when you make an API call. There's also the convenient fact that when you ask people about incidents of harassment, they tend to go "I'm sorry she felt uncomfortable" instead of "I never did it." The responses of creeps Chris Sacca, Justin Caldbeck, Pavel Curda, Dave McClure, and Marc Canter to the recent accusations against them are excellent examples of this. So, you can just ask them.