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Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)

submitted 9 months ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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[–] brognak@lemm.ee 54 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I wanted a similar site but to track houses with Trump signs up. Have to upload pictures for the record, and cross referenced with MLS listings/sales so everything is expunged on property transfer.

No particular reason to keep this info around. Just a curiosity.

[–] MdPhoenix@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That would drive them absolutely batshit insane

[–] brognak@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In my head I called it The Scarlet Letter and the logo was a giant red burning T.

Not that I have put thought into it or anything 😅

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Burning T...

Time... Time to go...

[–] tomatolung@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

USA voter registration including party affiliation are public record. https://protectdemocracy.org/work/why-is-voter-registration-data-public/

Building the sort of database you suggest is a very double edge sword though. Use of personal data to persecute people is a tool of fascist. Persuading people as it is currently used by candidates and their proxies is arguably part of democratic (the arguably part is that humans don't make rational decisions due to cognitive biases, so it is not a fair choice if presented with manipulated information), but it is a way to distribute directed information in this modern age.

We need community and more engagement, not less and isolation. I empathize with the outrage response, but suggest it's worth being careful in actions that take the form of the enemy.