Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?

Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by heavyset_go on Sunday June 26, 2022 @03:14PM (#31886969)

To give an example of this, I lived in a municipality where most community-driven things were organized on Facebook, including government-driven initiatives.

I won't participate in them using my real name, because I once witnessed the mayor of the town doxx and lead a campaign to harass a single mother because she disagreed with the majority party that's run the town for the last 40 years. She got dogpiled on by hundreds of residents for participating in a discussion on Facebook.

It wasn't an isolated incident either, other people have had the same experience and even felt the need to move after it happened because some people took it to an extreme and felt the need to harass them for months afterwards.

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Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by eurasiantiger on Sunday June 26, 2022 @03:59PM (#31887400)

You don’t have laws against that sort of abuse of power?

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Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by heavyset_go on Sunday June 26, 2022 @05:07PM (#31887975)

Maybe, but the entire county is run by the good ol' boys network. Good luck getting the police to investigate or charge the mayor, and good luck in court.

Part of the chilling effect is the incentive against pursuing justice in cases like this. The single mother was already publicly targeted and made unsafe, chances are that the public targeting will get even worse if she pursued justice against her harassers.

These same people in power who led this campaign against her have sycophants in the local media who have no problem using their wide reach to smear dissenters like they do every election season, even for minor Board of Ed elections.

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Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by nerdponx on Sunday June 26, 2022 @04:59PM (#31887900)

Laws only work when law enforcement and criminal justice cares to enforce them and/or when the wronged party has enough resources to sue in a venue where law enforcement and criminal justice will care.

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Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by m-p-3 on Sunday June 26, 2022 @06:05PM (#31888542)

Laws are nice on paper, but only if someone actually enforces them.

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Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by eurasiantiger on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:15AM (#31890801)

The enforcers seem to have a lot of time and resources for enforcing those laws on minorities.

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