violent armed fringes of both the political far right and left who are members of registered U.S. domestic terrorist organizations, have been convicted for violent racial attacks, claimed to have sent Anthrax chemical warfare agents to the President of the United States, been sentenced to mental institutions for threatening to assassinate sitting U.S. presidents, and been imprisoned for plotting terrorist attacks on U.S soil.
Eh… do what you gotta do with whatever you’ve got to do it with.
There different reasons for wanting privacy or advocating for for personal data privacy and implimenting strategies to support that.
If ever you are in trouble with the state or make the wrong person on the internet angry, the more you’ve publically shared the easier it will be for them to find something to use against you. So… you can try not to get on anybody’s bad side to limit that possibility or you can do your best to compartmentalize your online activities.
It should be possible to ask for help or show vuneralbility online without telling anybody (or thing) absolutely everything about you every time.
Gonna spend a bit working my way through “The Jakarta Method” before sleepy time.
Find some place… as an example, hexbear’s instance has c/slop… to drop a link to the offending user’s comment or post and whatever happens… happens.
You’ve got the option of Reporting the post/comment to the moderators. Which will require you knowing the moderation rules of the community in question to take advantage of.
Short bullet point/talking point responses. Replies with things like, “This is racist/sexist/genocide denial/etc”, then disengage. You don’t need to get into a long drawn out comment war/debat bro situation.
Make fun of them for being a goober.
My Paranoia: It makes the event seem like it happened much farther in the past than it really was. Being reminded that this happened in 1989 but my “feeling” of this was that it happened in the 60’s or 70’s before I was born instead of almost 10 years after.
My Reason: The photos might have been developed quickly in a darkroom and then photocopied and sent express mail to newspapers, digital cameras and the internet as we know it today in 2024 didn’t exist yet. (This hurts my brain to be reminded of.) Photographers maybe didn’t want to give up their “original” color prints if they didn’t have to.
Banger quotes.