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Originally Posted by Mickey76
It’s excellent to see a database where people will be held accountable for what they post. If you post crazy anti vax material you shouldn’t expect a job in healthcare. If you post material celebrating the murder of a guy who primary occupation is debating college students you aren’t going to be a good fit for most employers. Take the post above from Corsi, Charlie has been shot and killed on a stage in front of thousands of people, his 1 and 4 year old may never remember their father, when they google him when they get older they’ll find footage of him getting shot and bleeding out on stage. Corsi’s response to this tragedy is the kids are “probably better off.” Imagine that those kids are lucky this happened! How great is that. Anyways as an employer I would never hire someone who posted that and if there was a database I could check before hiring I would.
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Jesus Christ.
Using this "database" to determine if someone is hirable based solely on their internet posts is ####ing stupid. Why, you ask? Because of AI. You can create so much fake #### and make it seem like someone posted it. You can even use DeepFake to make someone say something they never said in a audio or video clip.
I had a colleague who was smeared by one of his students in just this fashion. They made a bunch of fake images of him posting neo-nazi things in an effort to ruin his career. He had to hire a private investigator and some good lawyers just to get his name cleared, but in the interim, he had to take a leave of absence from his job, mostly because parents wouldn't want him teaching with these accusations unresolved (not because our administration believed these things to be true). It nearly worked, but with some clever digital digging, they figured out how it was fabricated and also by whom. Still, it cost him a lot of his time, money, and mental well-being, and I'm betting this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Point is, someone can easily target somebody they don't like on the opposite side of the political spectrum with your "database" and a few AI tools, whether they did the thing or not.
And not to get into the thought police debate because it is always a grey area when it comes to employment and egregious statements, but being happy Kirk is dead should not be enough to get someone cancelled.
Oh, but wait...I thought the conservatives hated cancel culture? I thought that was just something the liberals did?
I can't believe we have to debate this. A database of people who said things we don't like so we can punish them is very much a Gestapo tactic. Reflect on that for a moment and see if you still think it's such a great idea.