Memory.lol

https://github.com/travisbrown/memory.lol

by vool • 4 years ago

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googlryas• 4 years ago

So basically a database to help you doxx people you have issues with.

dcow10• 4 years ago

Yep, that’s travisbrown in a nutshell for ya.

senectus12• 4 years ago

Doxx or hold people accountable for what they say online?

If someone says something of their own free will then puts it in "writing" on the internet of their own free will should they not be accountable for things they say and did of their own free will?

Personally I suspect this might be a useful tool for teaching budding new internet users that they're not anonymous when they hit "send". But like any tool that ever existed, the potential for abuse is definitely there.

HarrySally32• 4 years ago

I wonder if people who express this sentiment will still be doing so when the pendulum swings so far the other way. Will you also be grateful for a massive register that exposes everyone who ever espoused views in favour of LGBT, multiculturalism, etc in a society that condemns and even prohibits such views?

Perhaps there's some Middle Eastern theocracy where this scenario exists already. Are you glad that Saudi Arabian trans activists will forever have a target on their backs?

olah_12• 4 years ago

This project beautifully highlights the problem with "web3"/"dweb"/decentralized social media projects.

What people want is not permanence or anti-censorship.

They want to feel safe in an increasingly scary world. I don't want psychos tracking me down and trying to ruin my life because I have a different opinion than them. I just want to have fun with my friends and be left alone.

jacooper4• 4 years ago

What people want is not permanence or anti-censorship.

I agree about uncontrollable permanance, however i think in general people want anti-censorship.

olah_12• 4 years ago

It's just that controllable permanence and censorship blocking comes with trade-offs. And most people aren't fully aware of those trade-offs until it's too late.

More thinking should be done in terms of UX.

cortesoft• 4 years ago

This seems... problematic

senectus12• 4 years ago

Its not problematic that it exists... its problematic that its possible.

and so easily possible.

jacooper4• 4 years ago

The perfect cancel culture tool.

Nebasuke• 4 years ago

Yeah, Travis seems to have been on a crusade against his detractors for a while now. See also https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture

jacooper4• 4 years ago

Truly amazing.

dcow10• 4 years ago

Written by someone who got fired from Twitter for spending way too much time making a political mess of the Scala community. Some people just can’t separate politics from literally everything else so they spend their best years and free time writing tools to cancel and harass people they don’t like and insist other communities act they way they want. Pretty sad, really.

trbrown2• 4 years ago

For the record I wasn't fired by Twitter. Not sure where you're getting your information from, but it's not very connected to reality.

wly_cdgr• 4 years ago

Weird and way creepy

not_really• 4 years ago

travis brown, the functional clown

nathanaldensr2• 4 years ago

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=rep...

EDIT: implicitly encouraging

jacooper4• 4 years ago

I hope you reported the Cancel-culture repo too.

woodruffw6• 4 years 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.

nathanaldensr2• 4 years 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.

dcow10• 4 years 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.

kitschyred2• 4 years 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.

dcow10• 4 years 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.

HarrySally32• 4 years 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?

drcongo2• 4 years ago

OMG, not a leftist!

pilgrimfff• 4 years ago

Ah good. We can retroactively destroy people's lives as the overton window shifts. What a splendid project.

woodruffw6• 4 years ago

The Overton Window is a little tired, but it also doesn't apply in the way you're implying: the reactionary accounts linked appear to have become uniformly more reactionary over time. Meanwhile, the course of action (recording everything they say) hasn't changed much.

rvz• 4 years ago

You know this is what Stalin, and North Korea's Kim-Jong Un today would have dreamed of using? Probably will aid in collective punishment or 3 generations of punishment.

A tool like this is a noble totalitarians dream which anyone they didn't like can be brought into the light with absolute zero privacy, no path to redemption of past sins, mistakes or accidents and the internet will preserve and shame them forever.

The same developers like this one screaming and have hijacked 'open-source' are just helping the surveillance capitalists and dystopian new world order.

woodruffw6• 4 years ago

One supposes that Stalin dreamt of sufficient firepower and prisons, not Twitter APIs.

hirundo• 4 years ago

The response to @libsoftiktok has created a huge, rapid streisanding of that account. She went from niche to ubiquitous almost overnight and her message has been hugely amplified. There has to be a better reaction than to hand your enemy such a megaphone.

Trumpi3• 4 years ago

Looks like the privacy alarmists were right all along.

dariusj182• 4 years ago

I'm not sure this counts as privacy, it's all data published publicly by the people themselves.

Trumpi3• 4 years ago

It does, at least according to several courts. This particular aspect of privacy is famously known as "The right to be forgotten."

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten

RONROC• 4 years ago

Snitching as a Service.

styluss• 4 years ago

Seems like people here are really against OSINT.

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