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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on March 27, 2015, 05:20:59 PM
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Electric Monk (11,686 posts) Fri Mar 27, 2015, 04:08 PM
Hunting down anti-gun-violence advocates? There's an app for that.
(cross-posting from GCRA because this is about more than guns, it's about using apps to intimidate, or worse)
It's just the latest in a disturbing trend: Your address and phone numbers are now weapons.
By Sarah Kessler
On Thursday morning, a handful of anti-gun-violence activists realized there is an app in the Google Play Store with their names on it—literally. The app, Gunfree Geo Marker, features a map pinpointing the home and work addresses of politicians, gun control organization employees, and "random anti-gun trolls" who "push the anti-gun agenda in any way, shape or form."
Clicking on a person’s name in the menu reveals their address on a Google map, along with the app creator's reasons for including that person in the app.
For instance, Joseph Quint, a photographer who is working on a documentary about gun violence, is described as "an anti-gun troll who is so confident that he is right, he is afraid to defend his position." Andrea J. Markley, a woman who is vocal about gun control issues on social media, is described as "aka liberal hippie queen." Ladd Everitt, the head of communications for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, is simply listed with his job title.
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No matter which side of the gun control debate you sit on, it's a disturbing trend: Your address, which is often public and searchable through sites like whitepages.com, has become a weapon that people who disagree with you can use to intimidate you.
more
http://www.fastcompany.com/3044336/do-gun-owners-need-an-app-to-tell-them-where-anti-gun-activists-live
This is why, when some gun troll asks "well, what do you do in the real world? Prove you're not just some keyboard commando." the proper response is "Go **** yourself. That's none of your business."
NaturalHigh (9,659 posts)
1. As I believe I said in the GCRA group before you banned me a few minutes ago...
Didn't a New York newspaper publish the names and addresses of all the gun owns in the county?
Electric Monk (11,686 posts)
2. Yeah, that's exactly the same. Not.
and, there are now laws in many states against revealing who owns guns and who has a ccl.
NaturalHigh (9,659 posts)
3. Uh, yeah it is.
The hypocrisy amazes me.
Electric Monk (11,686 posts)
4. One county is the same as the entire country?
That's the whole thing so far. IIRC, most of the DUmmies cheer when gun owners are outed and their information made public. Makes more sense to tell the criminals who isn't likely to have a gun to defend themselves.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/thundley4/guncontrol_zpsnfigops4.jpg)
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Why aren't the gun-haters proud their homes are gun-free?
Progs have been doxxing those they hate for years, but whine and cry when they themselves are doxxed. Those that make the bed should also lay in it.
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Why aren't the gun-haters proud their homes are gun-free?
Progs have been doxxing those they hate for years, but whine and cry when they themselves are doxxed. Those that make the bed should also lay in it.
Silly conservative.
Libs have no intention of suffering the consequences of what they want to impose on everyone else.
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Put in DUmmy Hoyt or onehandle and the app list the place of residence as Eastern State, Philadelphia, PA. Visiting hours are second and fourth Tuesday, 2:00-3:45
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Control freak leftists hate when their own techniques are used against them.
Tough shit ****wits.
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Correct me if in error but wasn`t officer Wilsons and his families addresses made public by the left?
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Correct me if in error but wasn`t officer Wilsons and his families addresses made public by the left?
As well as George Zimmermann's.
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Correct me if in error but wasn`t officer Wilsons and his families addresses made public by the left?
CNN (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/death-wish-media-draws-map-to-home-of-ferguson-police-officer-who-shot-mike-brown/)
NYT article, 8th paragraph (http://www.nytimes.com/news/ferguson/2014/11/24/quiet-wedding-for-darren-wilson-police-officer-in-ferguson-shooting/)
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As well as George Zimmermann's.
Roseanne Barr gave out Z' parents' address (http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2012/03/29/roseanne-tweets-zimmerman-address/)
Spike Lee gave out a wrong address for Z's parents (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2012/03/spike-lee-trayvon-martin-wrong-george-zimmerman-address.html)
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"No matter which side of the gun control debate you sit on, it's a disturbing trend: Your address, which is often public and searchable through sites like whitepages.com, has become a weapon that people who disagree with you can use to intimidate you."
Those DUmmies were probably the same ones who a few years ago were cheering on the Palin email hacker's publicly posting Sarah Palin's personal information online, which in turn enabled psychopaths to stalk and threaten her daughters.
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Only a week or so back, GCRA was proud that their list of the banned was reduced. They took off the PPRed I think. Now Elecrtic Monster is banning people for saying Hoplophobe!
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/thundley4/guncontrol_zpsnfigops4.jpg)
Dang! I can't use that. My neighbor has more "stuff" than I do.
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-08 11:25 AM
Original message
Should people who donated to Prop 8 be publicly exposed and humiliated?
or is it harrassment and an attack on their right to free speech?
(I'm on the humiliation side of the fence).
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4467820
baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-08 11:28 AM
Response to Original message
1. Are they ashamed of what they did?
If not, why keep it a secret?
MNDemNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-08 11:28 AM
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4. If they feel humiliated, that is their problem.
Public records are public records...too damn bad for them.
gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-08 11:28 AM
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5. Wah wah to them
It is an attack on free speech to tell people to not mention it. If someone gave money, they must really feel strongly, so let them defend themselves.
7. Chalk me up for humiliation.
I see no reason to let them hide.
TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-08 11:35 AM
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11. Yes! Absolutely. Their right is to free speech. Yours is, too!
You are free to scorn and excoriate them, and they should be chastised and condemned.
cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-08 11:39 AM
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13. Yep- the courage of your convictions and all that..
Tallison Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-08 12:24 PM
Original message
They should be exposed. Whether they're humiliated by it
Edited on Sat Nov-15-08 12:25 PM by Tallison
is kind of up to them. Don't think anyone can humiliate you without your consent, a la Eleanor Roosevelt.
ETA: And he didn't say we should humiliate anyone with an opinion opposite of ours. You're generalizing as a debate tactic.
mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-08 12:29 PM
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82. Not really. No one can make someone feel humiliated except the person who feels it.
If someone feels humiliated by their actions being exposed, it's their choice.
mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-08 12:33 PM
Response to Reply #85
88. If they're not humiliated, why do they not want to be exposed?
Why do you think the KKK wears masks?
Those who supported Prop 8 are already lost to us forever. Again, look to the history of civil rights. There is always a tipping point at which the reasonable people have agreed, and the oppressors have to be beaten down.
(http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i475/Delmar59/image_zpsrti0os4e.jpg) (http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/Delmar59/media/image_zpsrti0os4e.jpg.html)
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Why aren't the gun-haters proud their homes are gun-free?
Progs have been doxxing those they hate for years, but whine and cry when they themselves are doxxed. Those that make the bed should also lay in it.
What goes around comes around.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4467820(http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i475/Delmar59/image_zpsrti0os4e.jpg) (http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/Delmar59/media/image_zpsrti0os4e.jpg.html)
Hi five.
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Can you imagine the horror at the DUmp if there were an app to identify people who voted for that catastrophic muslim in the White House?
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Can you imagine the horror at the DUmp if there were an app to identify people who voted for that catastrophic muslim in the White House?
I can't find more than a handful of people who will admit to having voted for owebuma.
Out them.
Let them explain their support of the worst US president ever.
Like the libs are saying, if you did it be willing to won it.
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Can you imagine the horror at the DUmp if there were an app to identify people who voted for that catastrophic muslim in the White House?
Not too sure it'd matter in the PRNY.
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Can you imagine the horror at the DUmp if there were an app to identify people who voted for that catastrophic muslim in the White House?
I still, in my commute, see occasional faded Obama '12 and even '08 bumperstickers. Not a lot ... I think more has faded than just the bumperstickers. While out walking yesterday PM I saw - I think for the first time - a Romney-Ryan '12 bumpersticker.
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I still, in my commute, see occasional faded Obama '12 and even '08 bumperstickers. Not a lot ... I think more has faded than just the bumperstickers. While out walking yesterday PM I saw - I think for the first time - a Romney-Ryan '12 bumpersticker.
Those obama stickers are wonderful for warning you of bad drivers with poor judgement.
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I still, in my commute, see occasional faded Obama '12 and even '08 bumperstickers. Not a lot ... I think more has faded than just the bumperstickers. While out walking yesterday PM I saw - I think for the first time - a Romney-Ryan '12 bumpersticker.
I still see a few. Remember where I am--the PRNY.
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I still see a few. Remember where I am--the PRNY.
And I'm in the PRC. My commute takes me through Appletino and past Stanford U. Not quite SF or Berserkeley, but very hipster-liberal and naive-Progressive.
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I think it's about time to load our DUmmy dossiers into an app.
Good and decent people could avoid being the victims of bouncies, false accusations of racism and sexism, insane would-be felines, fools who want to attack and disarm lawfully armed citizens, pornographic poems by great-grandmothers, smelly old hippies, New Hampshire town drunks with vomit in their beards, and other DUmmy-related unpleasantness.
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I just saw a "Ready for Hillary" sticker on a minivan driven by a close cropped middle aged woman.
Couldn't see her shoes but I'm sure they were comfortable.
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I just saw a "Ready for Hillary" sticker on a minivan driven by a close cropped middle aged woman.
Couldn't see her shoes but I'm sure they were comfortable.
A minivan? Not a Subaru Outback?
:rotf:
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A minivan? Not a Subaru Outback?
:rotf:
Now that's funny.
How could I make my story sound less like a bouncy and earn some bongs ?
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Now that's funny.
How could I make my story sound less like a bouncy and earn some bongs ?
Maybe the local Subaru dealer was out of Outbacks.
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A minivan? Not a Subaru Outback?
:rotf:
Or a Prius? Or a Leaf?
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Or a Prius? Or a Leaf?
I saw a Prius today with an NRA Member sticker on it. :whistling:
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I saw a Prius today with an NRA Member sticker on it. :whistling:
There's a local one that has a "friend of coal" sticker on the back of it. Lots of people don't understand the joke.