Hunting down anti-gun-violence advocates? There's an app for that. [View all]
(I cross-posted this in GD as well, but that might get locked)
It's just the latest in a disturbing trend: Your address and phone numbers are now weapons.
By Sarah Kessler
On Thursday morning, a handful of anti-gun-violence activists realized there is an app in the Google Play Store with their names on it—literally. The app, Gunfree Geo Marker, features a map pinpointing the home and work addresses of politicians, gun control organization employees, and "random anti-gun trolls" who "push the anti-gun agenda in any way, shape or form."
Clicking on a person’s name in the menu reveals their address on a Google map, along with the app creator's reasons for including that person in the app.
For instance, Joseph Quint, a photographer who is working on a documentary about gun violence, is described as "an anti-gun troll who is so confident that he is right, he is afraid to defend his position." Andrea J. Markley, a woman who is vocal about gun control issues on social media, is described as "aka liberal hippie queen." Ladd Everitt, the head of communications for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, is simply listed with his job title.
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No matter which side of the gun control debate you sit on, it's a disturbing trend: Your address, which is often public and searchable through sites like whitepages.com, has become a weapon that people who disagree with you can use to intimidate you.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/3044336/do-gun-owners-need-an-app-to-tell-them-where-anti-gun-activists-liveThis is why, when some gun troll asks "
well, what do you do in the real world? Prove you're not just some keyboard commando." the proper response is "Go fuck yourself, asshole. That's none of your business."
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