So, among the first people you give access to the search are some known harassers? Sharp thinking, there.
- permanently archiving posts they know people don’t want them to
- gave early access to known trolls
- is now publicly crowing about how there’s nothing you can do about it
- on a throwaway, because like most bullies they’re cowards
Personally, I’m left wondering if there needs to be an organized crime investigation into KF, for organized harassment campaigns which violate local stalking or other laws, and the role people like this account play in orchestrating it.
I think there’s be a certain irony to HN’s record of this comment being used to prosecute an accomplice in organized crime.
They’re on a throwaway because they’re too cowardly to admit who they are and face people like myself who want to hold them accountable for their bullying.
I think they’re exactly hiding who they are.
I act in a way I can publicly own.
You act in a way you know that you have to hide — because you’re aware that’s it’s anti-social.
If you go around a bar with a tape recorder and directional microphone capturing conversations from unsuspecting people and then use those private moments to launch protracted harassment campaigns, you’re an asshole.
No matter how much you say “they didn’t have an expectation of privacy!”
If you want to talk privately - talk to people that you trust and use apps like Signal that delete messages after some time.
What specifically do you feel is different?
It's completely different if someone sneaks into your home and leaves microphones there.
I think it’s very telling you made a strawman rather than respond to that point.
That’s anti-social behavior and it’s okay to call it such.