The fact that they’re this motivated to track people on this niche topic sounds alarm bells for me.
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(Name checks out) yeah this is not a normal thing to do. Man we need mandatory ethics classes in school.
The people who said "This is bullshit" in my ethics class are the ones who went to work at facebook and such so they could be rich. They don't care that you get hurt in the process.
Education can only improve a situation caused by lack of education. Most people doing shitty things aren't doing it because they don't know it's shitty.
You see people here on HN making up rationalizations all the time because they know it's shitty. They just don't care that they cause harm. They were raised by people and society to think it's okay to harm someone for your own gain because that's basically what America has advertised for 50 years.
That is NOT normal.
Half the tech industry thinks its fine though -- at least as long as it's not the government doing it.
No. No, this is not normal.
What a contrived way to spell "democracy"
sorry to the rest of the esteemed hn community for the low-effort reply, but... gross.
Am I normal?
And very much not normal.
The sandbagging on this story is crazy.
Dolan does.
Its usually about the company, not the individual
its one level of unhealthy to point at a demographic and say, "them they the source of the problems" , thats like archie bunker.
going further, individual names and dox, curated summarized to a quick read list, gathering weapons building a cell, thats historically malignant.
this is antisocial manipulative behavior normalized under the auspices of "good business".
It has been normalized to you.
It is not normal.
If you ever showed up at my business with something like that, we would never meet again, and I would tell all of my peers, other businesses, etc.
What you're doing is called PsyOps and it's a military function.
Because of the thing.