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This just in; posting ridiculous amounts of personal information on the internet can lead to you being profiled correctly. Wild stuff.

DoctorOetker 6mo ago
Not entirely correctly though, since there are forms of censorship even on HN, which selectively blinds any method of analysis in a systematically biased way.
cm2012 6mo ago
There was an Irish mafia guy who was caught because his anonymous restaurant review profile got linked to him.
- barrkel 6mo ago
  Christy Kinahan is still at large, in or around Dubai.
Retr0id 6mo ago
We all know this, but in the past someone probably wasn't going to go through thousands of your comments unless you've really pissed them off. It's worth realising how much lower the activation energy is these days.
- alexgandy 6mo ago
  You’re right about the speed; but it doesn’t change the outcome. If you don’t want it to be associated with you, you simply can’t put it out there.
  - rdevilla 6mo ago
    Yes, and then people wonder why you are a gaping hole in the social media surveillance dragnet with your absence. It took 12 years for me to make my first comment on this account.
  - janalsncm 6mo ago
    There are emergent effects of technologies getting cheaper and more accessible. Surveillance was always possible but it was expensive because a person or two had to literally watch a suspect. So it was rare in practice and suspects had to be chosen carefully. Mass surveillance is not new in the sense that surveillance was always possible. What is new is the scope of power it gives to those who can use it.
- SilentM68 6mo ago
  Yeah, it takes just one carefully worded comment to turn the majority of readers in this forum against you, particularly if the comment does not align with the majority's point of view. Definitely a place with a low melting point where my HN Karma, consistently takes a beating :)
aaron695 6mo ago
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shusaku 6mo ago
The real game starts when you use a tool like this to introduce a counter narrative. Now excuse while I’m off to play in my next professional basketball game.
- llbbdd 6mo ago
  I'll see you on the court, Victor Wembanyama.
stefan_ 6mo ago
Yeah, but now with AI. Because the shtick of this blog is "everything is ~~computer~~ AI".

DoctorOetker 6mo ago

Not entirely correctly though, since there are forms of censorship even on HN, which selectively blinds any method of analysis in a systematically biased way.

cm2012 6mo ago

There was an Irish mafia guy who was caught because his anonymous restaurant review profile got linked to him.

barrkel 6mo ago
Christy Kinahan is still at large, in or around Dubai.

Retr0id 6mo ago

We all know this, but in the past someone probably wasn't going to go through thousands of your comments unless you've really pissed them off. It's worth realising how much lower the activation energy is these days.

alexgandy 6mo ago
You’re right about the speed; but it doesn’t change the outcome. If you don’t want it to be associated with you, you simply can’t put it out there.
- rdevilla 6mo ago
  Yes, and then people wonder why you are a gaping hole in the social media surveillance dragnet with your absence. It took 12 years for me to make my first comment on this account.
- janalsncm 6mo ago
  There are emergent effects of technologies getting cheaper and more accessible. Surveillance was always possible but it was expensive because a person or two had to literally watch a suspect. So it was rare in practice and suspects had to be chosen carefully. Mass surveillance is not new in the sense that surveillance was always possible. What is new is the scope of power it gives to those who can use it.
SilentM68 6mo ago
Yeah, it takes just one carefully worded comment to turn the majority of readers in this forum against you, particularly if the comment does not align with the majority's point of view. Definitely a place with a low melting point where my HN Karma, consistently takes a beating :)

aaron695 6mo ago

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shusaku 6mo ago

The real game starts when you use a tool like this to introduce a counter narrative. Now excuse while I’m off to play in my next professional basketball game.

llbbdd 6mo ago
I'll see you on the court, Victor Wembanyama.

stefan_ 6mo ago

Yeah, but now with AI. Because the shtick of this blog is "everything is ~~computer~~ AI".