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

• ryokimball@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I definitely didn’t intend to imply or accuse you of being astroturfey or anything else for that matter and I’m truly sorry it came off that way. It seems I should be much more careful in my wording. I did a bad job of paraphrasing something I heard about how the original Reddit accounts and lack of traditional organizers are a bit suspicious.

      At the end of the day I think we’re all scared and trying to navigate a complex media ecosystem and it’s easy to make mistakes.

      Again I’m truly sorry if I helped spread anti-protest sentiments in any way, that was not my goal. I genuinely have heard concerns from friends and was trying to check their veracity. It seems from what I’ve heard here that they are bogus and I’m grateful to the commenters who have pointed that out

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      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Which upcoming protests would your knowledgeable friends recommend going to instead?

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• newnton@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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