I'm not the only one getting increasingly worried about the:
-increasing rhetoric about death for sex offenders
-the rise of apps like sneaky links that "show the locations of offenders near you"
-the likelyhood that this is a preclude to coordinated and sustained mob violence
Right? Like I'm not the only one getting really uneasy about all of this?
@Hobyrim Convicted offenders are public record and required to list location within their state on its registry.
@SaltyVeruca exactly which is great when you go and look it up on a dot gov website.
What happens when you start getting more and more apps that promise to do the record checking for you.
If I say app [insert app name here] has a 30% false rate of identifying people wrong as convicted offenders, do you think people will listen, or will I get shouted down by people saying I am sticking up for the criminals?
If you get listed in an app falsely, do you think you can ever clear your name?
@Hobyrim I have no idea what apps you're referencing.
@SaltyVeruca this is one of them.
There are dozens of similar apps on Google Play store.
@Hobyrim I'm assuming these would pull from available registry data already inexistence. Do you know if this is not the case?
@SaltyVeruca you have to assume they are pulling from public registry yes. You dont know if that's the case for sure though.
I understand I am taking a bit of a paranoid and unpopular position here, but I also know that as everyone becomes more siloed online, the easier it becomes to fake data.
@SaltyVeruca I hear you. You understand this on a different level. Appreciate the dialogue.
@Hobyrim Of course but unless you have a personal concern, I wouldn't stress. Anything is possible if you think about it in terms of data manipulation. At any rate, my father has been on registry nearly thirty years and is still alive and well, so I shouldn't think vigilante antics are too popular. They're welcome to him though.