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.