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Parler had the option to police their users but put an unqualified volunteer moderation team in charge. As you can imagine this leads to suboptimal results wher

Parler had the option to police their users but put an unqualified volunteer moderation team in charge. As you can imagine this leads to suboptimal results where the most egregious content isn't removed. I was on last night and saw a picture of Peloi's house with the address attached. These are dangerous people that are stalking our democratically elected leaders.

reaperducer 6y ago
saw a picture of Peloi's house with the address attached. It's sad how publishing the address of a politician has become akin to a threat. When I was a journalist, all politicians had their addresses and phone numbers right in the phone book. We looked them up all the time. Voters were expected to be able to know exactly where their elected officials lived. It was also one way of verifying that they actually lived within their district. But because basic knowledge has become weaponized and abused by nutjobs, the general public now feels this is a threat. How much society has changed in a very short time.
- GaryNumanVevo 6y ago
  Well to be fair, if you had browsed Parler recently you would have seen Nancy Pelosi's address between numerous _actual_ death threats to sitting politicians.
- mminer237 6y ago
  The existence of someone's address in a phone book isn't a threat. There's not anything inherently devious about making that information public, but you can't just view that in isolation. 99.99999% of people have no use for that information. If you're publishing just that person's address without comment, you have infer the intent from the circumstances. Nobody on Parler is sharing her address to show that she's an honest politician actually living within her district. The implication of sharing just one person's home address with people who hate her is to encourage malfeasance at such location. I think this implication would have always existed.
- us0r 6y ago
  I posted a few weeks ago - someone in Kentucky is trying to make it a felony to post such information. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25485245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25485245
- bdcravens 6y ago
  Most forms of harassment includes actions and words that in isolation would mean nothing. I had someone send me some very abusive and threatening emails, and among the images they sent, was a screenshot of a flight quote and a photo of my house from Google Maps.
krrrh 6y ago
> unqualified volunteer moderation team in charge Devils advocate here, but this does for the most part work for Reddit.
- chickenpotpie 6y ago
  Reddit also has employees that ban subreddits that aren’t effectively moderated

reaperducer 6y ago

saw a picture of Peloi's house with the address attached. It's sad how publishing the address of a politician has become akin to a threat. When I was a journalist, all politicians had their addresses and phone numbers right in the phone book. We looked them up all the time. Voters were expected to be able to know exactly where their elected officials lived. It was also one way of verifying that they actually lived within their district. But because basic knowledge has become weaponized and abused by nutjobs, the general public now feels this is a threat. How much society has changed in a very short time.

GaryNumanVevo 6y ago
Well to be fair, if you had browsed Parler recently you would have seen Nancy Pelosi's address between numerous _actual_ death threats to sitting politicians.
mminer237 6y ago
The existence of someone's address in a phone book isn't a threat. There's not anything inherently devious about making that information public, but you can't just view that in isolation. 99.99999% of people have no use for that information. If you're publishing just that person's address without comment, you have infer the intent from the circumstances. Nobody on Parler is sharing her address to show that she's an honest politician actually living within her district. The implication of sharing just one person's home address with people who hate her is to encourage malfeasance at such location. I think this implication would have always existed.
us0r 6y ago
I posted a few weeks ago - someone in Kentucky is trying to make it a felony to post such information. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25485245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25485245
bdcravens 6y ago
Most forms of harassment includes actions and words that in isolation would mean nothing. I had someone send me some very abusive and threatening emails, and among the images they sent, was a screenshot of a flight quote and a photo of my house from Google Maps.

krrrh 6y ago

> unqualified volunteer moderation team in charge Devils advocate here, but this does for the most part work for Reddit.

chickenpotpie 6y ago
Reddit also has employees that ban subreddits that aren’t effectively moderated