#Brazil Racist #Facebook comments appear on billboards near users' homes
'...The group identifies offensive remarks, locates the places where the comments were posted using geotag tools, and then displays them on billboards near those locations. The names and faces of the authors are blurred to keep their identities private...'
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/peoples-racist-facebook-comments-appear-on-billboards-near-users-homes
@luka @jd these are the kind of actions i can get behind. the wordpress site would be easy. probably easy to figure out who runs it and easy to hack (fuck wordpress and fuck php even harder). that's probably why it was removed. you can anonymously register a domain and set up hosting. make a simple static site. done. the billboard thing is even better, but that requires money or sympathetic capitalists (where?)
It was stopped with a statement. It wasn't hacked.
But yes, I loved it. I'm not sure how much it is problematic wrt privacy, although what those people wrote was supposedly public, on public fb tl, so I don't think it was a legal/ethical problem. (and they were really truly horrendous statements)
it was very appropriate at the time when there was a lot of hate speech on FB as a reaction to crisis. i don't think it would work now. perhaps on a global scale, or european scale. and perhaps it wouldn't be that effective. ti worked here because there's only 2M of us and neighbours/parents/friends quickly recognised eachothers.
the project was called Zlovenija (ZLO= EVIL in slovenian).
@jd it'd be better if the names and faces WERE NOT blurred.
I understand they're trying to kind of shame people, but they are preserving the commenter's anonymity that protects them from shame in the first place.
@jd ugh, Brazil racism is so bad
I saw a blackface mannequin in Sรฃo Paulo.
@jd How can racism still happen in Brasil. ๐ Brasil was made from the mixing of people and cultures. Diversity is what makes the beauty of Brasil.
@tiphra The legacy of slavery, just like the USA :-(
@jd
there was an interesting action at the beginning of European "immigration crisis". Some Slovenians were openly posting xenophobic and even threatening statements on fb. Somebody started screencapturing those w/ author names and profile photos and posting them on a WordPress blog. If author sent an apology, the hate statement was replaced with a capture of apology. It was incredibly brilliant & effective, but the site was down after a month, seemingly deliberately.