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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 th

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=report-abuse&report=other&report_type=unspecified https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?category=rep... EDIT: implicitly encouraging

jacooper 4y ago
I hope you reported the Cancel-culture repo too.
woodruffw 4y ago
The README is pretty explicit: it's an archive, meaning that any "doxxing" is whatever the original user accounts uploaded about themselves. That would be a pretty radical deflation of a term that's normally used to describe forcefully deanonymizing someone with information they didn't provide. And I don't see a call for harassment anywhere. The author clearly has opinions, but there's no call to action.
- nathanaldensr 4y ago
  People are free to nitpick the purpose but I think it's pretty clear. I also found the "licensed under the Anti-Capitalist license" pretty amusing, considering they are posting a project on GitHub--owned by Microsoft--and relying on US copyright law.
  - woodruffw 4y ago
    Far be it from me to psychologize him, but I suspect it's no different from Ayn Rand's welfare checks[1]. [1]: https://www.openculture.com/2016/12/when-ayn-rand-collected-social-security-medicare.html https://www.openculture.com/2016/12/when-ayn-rand-collected-...
- dcow 4y ago
  You either have no idea who travisbrown is or support this type of behavior. He literally harasses people he doesn’t agree with by defaming their character on any platform and/or forum that doesn't kick him out for breaking community guidelines and CoCs. I’m pretty liberal and think that fits a modern definition of harassment.
  - woodruffw 4y ago
    You're right, I didn't know who he was. But I read some of his posts just now. He's clearly very angry (it's not healthy to be so angry), but I also don't see anything that meets a standard of defamation. He seems to have receipts for just about every potentially defamatory claim he makes, which presumably come from this big Twitter archive of his.
    - dcow 4y ago
      He’s actually been sued for defamation and there’s a bunch of history that isn't on his public Twitter account.
      - woodruffw 4y ago
        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.)
        trbrown 4y ago
        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).
        dcow 4y ago
kitschyred 4y ago
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.
- dcow 4y ago
  … according to him (and you can’t ignore those examples are hand picked to support his agenda). Personally I’m tired of social vigilantism. Let the law punish these people if they’re really what he calls them. If they’re not harming you don’t go looking for trouble.
  - kitschyred 4y ago
    > Let the law punish these people One of the people he picked as an example is the law. He's a white supremacist cop from Illinois: https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2022/04/01/magic-dirt-farmer/ https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2022/04/01/magic-dirt-.... So what you're asking for can't and won't happen. "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses."
    - dcow 4y ago
      Undoubtably, at high volume, he’s bound to get a few right. Still, I don't agree with the extrajudicial process, full stop. I’d rather have a few shit-stain racist internet trolls um trolling than decent people constantly under fire for dissenting viewpoints.
- HarrySally3 4y ago
  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?
drcongo 4y ago
OMG, not a leftist!

jacooper 4y ago

I hope you reported the Cancel-culture repo too.

woodruffw 4y ago

The README is pretty explicit: it's an archive, meaning that any "doxxing" is whatever the original user accounts uploaded about themselves. That would be a pretty radical deflation of a term that's normally used to describe forcefully deanonymizing someone with information they didn't provide. And I don't see a call for harassment anywhere. The author clearly has opinions, but there's no call to action.

nathanaldensr 4y ago
People are free to nitpick the purpose but I think it's pretty clear. I also found the "licensed under the Anti-Capitalist license" pretty amusing, considering they are posting a project on GitHub--owned by Microsoft--and relying on US copyright law.
- woodruffw 4y ago
  Far be it from me to psychologize him, but I suspect it's no different from Ayn Rand's welfare checks[1]. [1]: https://www.openculture.com/2016/12/when-ayn-rand-collected-social-security-medicare.html https://www.openculture.com/2016/12/when-ayn-rand-collected-...
dcow 4y ago
You either have no idea who travisbrown is or support this type of behavior. He literally harasses people he doesn’t agree with by defaming their character on any platform and/or forum that doesn't kick him out for breaking community guidelines and CoCs. I’m pretty liberal and think that fits a modern definition of harassment.
- woodruffw 4y ago
  You're right, I didn't know who he was. But I read some of his posts just now. He's clearly very angry (it's not healthy to be so angry), but I also don't see anything that meets a standard of defamation. He seems to have receipts for just about every potentially defamatory claim he makes, which presumably come from this big Twitter archive of his.
  - dcow 4y ago
    He’s actually been sued for defamation and there’s a bunch of history that isn't on his public Twitter account.
    - woodruffw 4y ago
      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.)
      - trbrown 4y ago
        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).
        dcow 4y ago

kitschyred 4y ago

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.

dcow 4y ago
… according to him (and you can’t ignore those examples are hand picked to support his agenda). Personally I’m tired of social vigilantism. Let the law punish these people if they’re really what he calls them. If they’re not harming you don’t go looking for trouble.
- kitschyred 4y ago
  > Let the law punish these people One of the people he picked as an example is the law. He's a white supremacist cop from Illinois: https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2022/04/01/magic-dirt-farmer/ https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2022/04/01/magic-dirt-.... So what you're asking for can't and won't happen. "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses."
  - dcow 4y ago
    Undoubtably, at high volume, he’s bound to get a few right. Still, I don't agree with the extrajudicial process, full stop. I’d rather have a few shit-stain racist internet trolls um trolling than decent people constantly under fire for dissenting viewpoints.
HarrySally3 4y ago
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?

drcongo 4y ago

OMG, not a leftist!