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The victim list is a good idea, but it wouldn't have prevented this shooting - the victim in this case was simply the hapless individual living at the former ad
by thecyborganizer 7y ago
The victim list is a good idea, but it wouldn't have prevented this shooting - the victim in this case was simply the hapless individual living at the former address of the intended target (who gave that address to the swatter).
The victim list did recently prevent the attempted swatting of Seattle author Ijeoma Oluo: https://www.newsweek.com/author-so-you-want-talk-about-race-targeted-swatting-hoax-white-supremacists-1454644 https://www.newsweek.com/author-so-you-want-talk-about-race-...
- tastroder 7y agoSure, I didn't want to imply that the list itself is a bad idea, it's surely a necessity that works. The "best response" part was merely to point out that more substantial preventative actions, like better training, would be preferrable in my view to shift the paradigm to a world where "swatting" isn't a realistic thing in the first place.