On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 10, 2014 5:41 UTC (Fri) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by jackb
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

Threats on Internet are often carried out by persons who would never do them in face-to-face situations as they fear retaliation. On Internet they assume that their anonymity cannot be exposed so they proceed with threats.

However, those people typically are not that careful at protecting their anonymity and quick search by IP or email reveals a lot. So some activists have found that by spending little efforts they can find the haters real names etc. Then they just publishing all they found. In most cases this alone is enough to silence the attacks. It also helps to state that all collected information can be used, say, for police investigation of threats.

If one consistently do that with any attacks early on, it will stop the future hatred.

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On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 10, 2014 9:21 UTC (Fri) by palmer_eldritch (guest, #95160) [Link] (1 responses)

Or the haters will start caring about protecting their anonymity. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be done though.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 10, 2014 9:38 UTC (Fri) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]

From a practical experience that I am aware of haters are not that smart to consistently use anonymizing tools. In fact often they assume that a web mail account under a pseudonym without anything like Tor etc. is good enough.