Comment on My friend exposed a guy for bad stuff. Now he's created a site where he archives everything my friend posts online & deliberately twists it to make her look bad/discredit her. What should she do?

• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is like saying you dont need to look both ways before crossing the street when you have the crossing signal. Sure, you might be correct but that doesn’t protect you when you get hit by a car.

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  • troed@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You need to practice making comparisons. No, that's nowhere near the same thing.

    Here's a better one: -"Stop wearing short skirts if men are cat calling you"

    Yeah, no.

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Stop wearing short skirts if men are cat calling you

      It’s reasonable advice, if you are sure that not wearing short skirts results in less cat-calling. The societal solution is to discourage cat-calling in whatever way. But if a particular individual doesn’t want to be cat called more than they want to wear short skirts, then the solution is obvious.

      This is similar advice to “if someone is trying to mug you, just give them your wallet so you don’t get stabbed.” Certainly there should be a larger discussion about decreasing the amount of muggings - but for the particular individual in a particular circumstance, they should take the action that is in their immediate self interest.

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      • troed@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        No, it's not. Please tell me you're not a parent.

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• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In a world where justice is guaranteed, you’d be right. But we’re not living in a fairy tale, and keeping all your data public is not bringing us closer to that utopia, so what’s the point?

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  • troed@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I live in a country where all data is public. We're good, thanks.

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    • krunklom@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What the fuck does that even mean?

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      • troed@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You want someone's personal number (americans, think social security number) - call the tax authority and ask for it. While at it, ask how much their declared income is and where they live.

        All public information. And our society is most definitely a fairy tale utopia compared to the US.

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• Hoimo@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Agreed, not just because someone is being an asshole. Everyone should feel the need to protect their personal information, because the world is full of assholes of different levels and your personal information being publicly available can only cause harm to you. It really is as simple as setting your profile to “friends only” to counter the lowest level of assholes.

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