Comment on YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol.

• newnton@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m just echoing some suspicions I’ve heard from more knowledgeable friends and was asking, I don’t really know enough detail to have any opinion myself; sorry if it’s a silly question.

  I’ve just heard that organizers coming out of it/ the Reddit accounts that originally elevated it seemed astroturfeyand there’s concern there, and I’ve seen some more paranoid ideas thrown around about it but idk

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it seemed astroturfey

    Fascinating. Can you ask your friends for more details? Surely for such an urgent concern, they’d be happy to share with you so you can pass on an important warning about it.

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    • ryokimball@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My suspicion of these “data collecting” / honey pot claims are that the claims themselves are suppression tactics

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      • newnton@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ugh I hope not, if so it’s worked on at least a few people in my community

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      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, that’s more or less exactly what I was hinting at.

        Of course, I would never do something as badjacketing as accusing some other poster of posting vaguely anti-protest stuff that doesn’t make any sense, as some kind of deliberate astroturf, except that they seemed to feel totally comfortable accusing me of being “astroturfey” for posting the original thing.

        You should absolutely be careful of your privacy at these events. But accusing one specific one of being a fake for “data collection” is totally strange.

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    • newnton@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I definitely will ask, that’s what I was trying to do with my original comment. It seems like it’s not a widely shared concern which I’m very glad to see.

      I definitely don’t mean to discourage attendance or anything like that, I totally agree with you that as long as people are cautious about PII, etc. there shouldn’t be more risk here than at any other protest

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      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure, let me know what the friends of yours who you heard this from say about it.

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