Trans supporting blogger claims that "Anti-fascist action groups" are creating a global database of "known alt-right members" including "TERFs." This would allow activists to harass, silence and destroy the livelihoods of women who dare to be real feminists. It's beyond creepy if true.

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[–]malleus_maleficarum 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Of course it's sinister and evil and wrong and should be illegal. Much like Wal-Mart identifying customers with facial recognition the second they walk in.

But unfortunately it's not. (Support the EFF.)

So if one uses the same handle or password or email in more than one place, or uses one's real photo ever, or leaves metadata in a photo, or puts down real info ever, or doesn't use VPN, or doesn't use Tor, or doesn't use containered browsing, or doesn't have a hardened browser, etc., well... why the hell would one ever be that stupid?

ex: Kellie-Jay Keen's site wouldn't accept my secure encrypted (well known! paid!) email address...so she'll never get money from me. I won't let her expose me to risks.

We've known these vile TRAs are doing this for yeeeaaaars. Literally. They used to crowd fund devs. It's past time for women to to get digital Kevlar and a better knowledge base.

[–]dreamgerms 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's past time for women to to get digital Kevlar and a better knowledge base.

I know a lot of stuff like this is mostly common sense stuff, but I think it would be great if some internet/computer-saavy women would make a list of ways for gender critical women/radical feminists/LGB drop the T folks to protect themselves from TRA’s.

[–]pancakewaffle 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

There has been a push for trans people in tech for sometime and the TRA ideology has seeped into core principles of software engineering in some circles. When you have someone with dangerous ideologies that encourage physical and digital stalking working on the architectures that servers depend on, or even the backend services that allow you to buy something online, you're asking for trouble. The website linked in the tweet is built on wordpress, which uses PHP and is notorious for being unsecure. Cough, cough....

Coursera and edx offer free digital privacy courses for those interested.

[–]BEB[S] 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

A few years ago, I would have agreed that we have to stay safely behind "digital Kevlar," but my thought now is that it is better for as many of us who can safely speak out do so.

I think speaking out, using our real names, would show the public that there are many of us, and that we are normal people, and it will be able to see that we're not "Nazis" or "fascists" or whatever other absurd slurs these narcissistic, entitled children like to hurl at us.

Instead, many of us are pillars of our communities, have volunteered on liberal political campaigns, have impressive professional credentials, etc. - we are people you'd want as your neighbor and friend, they are not.

And the bottom line is that once gender ideology is explained to them, 95% of the people over 25 in the world would think it was rubbish, and would whole-heartedly agree with us.

I think in the US the tide is turning, partially thanks to the GOP finally having the courage to exploit this perfect wedge issue, and thanks to many Americans across the political spectrum being annoyed at WOKE being forced on them.

American parents, though, need to be very actively pushing back against gender ideology in schools, because the gender lobby's effort to indoctrinate young Americans is comprehensive and is working.

BTW: I seem to remember (I could be wrong, but I think I'm not) that the EFF has come out in support of trans demands.

[–]malleus_maleficarum 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If the EFF has come out as pro trans they'll lose my donation, as does any org or business that is pro trans. Now I have to go look it up. Again. I'm so sick of having to follow behind people checking this shit.

While I'm fine with speaking in person and to my representatives with my real name, I'll never connect it to an online profile.

The digital Kevlar comment is not about using real names, it's about maintaining habits that prevent people and their networks of association from being identified and linked across multiple sites in the tools TRAs are using. Identification should be voluntary and shouldn't expose one's friends.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh, I see - that makes sense (to not expose your contacts to harassment from trans demands activists).

I am not encouraging anyone who doesn't feel completely comfortable with doing so to use their own name. As we've all seen, trans activists are a violence-threatening lot, and I don't blame any person who doesn't want to deal with their lunacy.

I did a quick search for EFF & transgender; I didn't find what I was looking for, but EFF did give TiM "Chelsea" Manning an "Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award Winner" in 2017. EFF calls Manning "she" and mentions his trans advocacy.

I'll take bets that the same gender lobby funders that turned the ACLU, etc., into gender propaganda mouthpieces are trying their best to do the same to EFF.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/whistleblower-chelsea-manning-techdirt-founder-mike-masnick-and-free-expression

[–]malleus_maleficarum 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah. Yes, I am aware of Private Manning. They haven't hit my personal defunding threshold. Yet.

If you want to fall down the rabbit hole, here's some detail (archive.org to not give clicks) on another crowdfunded TRA connections tool with an overview of methodology. https://web.archive.org/web/20210219233925/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andreajames/the-transphobia-project

"Andrea James" is the same TRA who harassed Michael Bailey ("The Man Who Would be Queen") and his children along with other academics. Overview by Alice Dreger: http://www.alicedreger.com/in_fear

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

partially thanks to the GOP finally having the courage to exploit this perfect wedge issue,

>implying

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

ahahahahaha I literally just thought of that one this morning.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

leaves metadata in a photo

Yes, yes!! You have to practically develop a Satoshi Nakamoto-like 6th sense of these things, understanding where and why you leave fingerprints as you traverse the web, even on public devices.

[–]malleus_maleficarum 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. So much this.

I miss the misty forgotten days when my biggest security concern was the nosy lady down the street eavesdropping on my party-line phone call. 🙄

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Supporting and defending women's rights is now an alt-right position apparently.

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This tactic only works for so long. Eventually, it'll just show people that they're not alone in questioning the liberal orthodoxy. Tens of millions of people out there agree with "wrongthink," but they're kept quiet and in line through social engineering and financial pressure. But this is unsustainable.

If they had any sense, they would line us up against the wall - or, they would do nothing. By destroying us, they vindicate what we say. It's an admission that they have no counter-argument. But because they only destroy us socially and financially, they force us to network with other dissidents who have been shut out of every institution, and to engage in full-time political activism. They are building a vanguard.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My thoughts too: if those of us who can safely speak out, speak out, the vast majority of people on Earth will agree with us, and dragging gender ideology into the light will kill it.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I mean, I've made a mySQL database that I use to track corporations, individuals, and news articles too.

The difference is that I use it to tell family where not to spend their money in a quarterly email, and I only track the online presence of individuals, as Twitter/Reddit handles make for a good individual unique identifier.

The reason I started tracking individuals in the first place has to do with what u/pancakewaffle mentions below - that there are collectivist lunatics in Big Tech who are itching to scour through and weaponize their employers' data against their political enemies, particularly in ways that even their oft-woke employers would fire them on the spot if detected.

Combine this with the fact that real estate titles are public records, and there are several functional projects already on Github that establish scraper APIs for a staggering number of US counties' public records (where the title deeds are most often recorded and held), unifying them into a single merged data source.

Its terrifying that between the two, such activist types essentially have the power to dox and harass people at scale, and with little interference from law enforcement, particularly if they use the Tor network to access to web or send encrypted communications.

[–]pancakewaffle 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is both high level in description and low level in implementation so I won't dwell on it long but, crawl for author and user ids (probably in base), target those ids in intervals per api request limits, run them through a natural language set and train them. That way you can compare probabilities of a user against a suspected alt based on writing habits. It's also a bit overkill haha.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oooh, interesting. Like a stylization attack, or whatever its called, as a user's fingerprint. Always on the hunt for new pet projects to expand on what I have, simply for skills development purposes - definitely adding a deep dive on this to my backlog.

[–]GConly 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Of course, its Izzaguire.

That's ones nuttier than squirrel turds.

Tech is trans infested. It's how they got such a hard grip on Reddit so early

[–]our_team_is_winning 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

When I hear "anti-fascist," I always think of Andy Ngo's extensive collection of arrest photos, like this TIM:

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1376901757180207111

ETA: Someone in the comments posted this image of "stunning" and "brave" knobs turned to 11 and I can't stop laughing.

https://twitter.com/UnderTowSober/status/1376906462535020552/photo/1