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- chkdg8, on 05/17/2008, -4/+47If anyone carefully read this story and in between the lines, you'll notice that this guy is very shady. First he had BumFinder.com (The website solicited users who would spot people who appeared to be homeless and plug in their location coordinates using a Google Map.) That's a textbook tattletale engine that was first implemented by the U.S. government onto it's citizens. Just google 'tattletale squads'. Then comes FakeYourSpace.com (which sold counterfeit friends, using stock photos of models, to MySpace users looking to juice up their online posses.) By the way, both of them now are offline.
Now he graduated to another "Snitch" format called RottenNeighbor.com (I immediately noticed a rotten smell coming from the neighbors directly across the hall. It smelled like garbage, but quickly learned that it was their cooking.) So now our cooking will be under question and scrutiny from snitching ass little bitches like these. I wonder who his shady ass VCs are as well. - donrando, on 05/17/2008, -3/+28Slimeball 2.0
- arlok789, on 05/17/2008, -3/+22This raises all sorts of questions about civil liberties. Could you imagine a website called "InsertMinorityGroupHereFinder.com" Thats messed up but at the same time I can understand where its coming from. I actually don't even know what to say about that. Damn. Messed up.
- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -2/+20He should sell a book. "Making money online for *****."
- dinostabOMG, on 05/17/2008, -3/+22This guy sounds like a real douche.
- chrisbosh123, on 05/17/2008, -5/+18"BumFinder.com was a great experiment I conducted into how I could leverage the media to spread my ideas through the internet."
What an ass. - thestranger, on 05/17/2008, -0/+8WOW that guy is a total D-Bag!
- Dumbledorito, on 05/17/2008, -5/+14Hey, this is a valid resource for those who can't find their bum even when using both hands and a flashlight.
What? - chapium, on 05/17/2008, -0/+8That would be census.gov
The bumfinder site definately has its pros and cons. On one side, it could help identify where the homeless to make targeted aid work better. On the other hand they could be stalked as well. - desertDenizen, on 05/17/2008, -0/+7Entrepreneur need not = douche. This guy is a douche. If he's got so many great ideas, why must he only execute those of questionable ethics? Answer: Other people haven't already done them... because most people aren't douches.
- AlaskaLoneWolf, on 05/17/2008, -0/+6Indeed. Won't be long now until we have the equivalent of a world-wide watchdog.
- painperdu, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5Why give crap like this publicity?
- drmobutu, on 05/17/2008, -1/+7Huh...I read the title, and assumed it would be about all the drug dealers on Facebook...THAT is a story that has yet to be told...
- arlok789, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5I'm an entrepreneur. My internet company that I am in the process of starting is based around NOT being a douche. Maybe its just part of the product I plan to sell but I find people respond well when you help people in need. Somebody kick my ass if I ever start racially profiling people and propagating stereotypes.
- gorgalor, on 05/17/2008, -3/+9All of you whiners have a hard time getting a bit of a chuckle out of this! You take your lives too seriously.
- Nubli, on 05/17/2008, -3/+9If you're living unlawfully on public property, you might as well be publicly displayed and accounted for.
- paulmer2003, on 05/17/2008, -1/+7 A graduate of San Diego's Platt College with a web design multimedia degree, Walker's first business was a website called FakeYourSpace.com, which sold counterfeit friends, using stock photos of models, to MySpace users looking to juice up their online posses.
Anyone who used that ***** should be shot in the face, lolol. - motters, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5Interesting article about what is probably an emerging darker side of the web which I'm sure we'll be hearing more about in future years. Governments (both democratic and despotic) may actually want to promote tools like these in order to marginalise minority groups within society deemed to be "bad" for one reason or other. I can think of various anti-social networking applications, although I'm not going to elucidate upon them for fear that they might actually come about.
- dinostabOMG, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4If you check it out, you'll notice that that wasn't the intention.
- rossisdead, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4And if you start legislating for every time someone got their feelings hurts, nothing would ever get accomplished. Why? Because everyone gets upset about different things.
- counterplex, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3It's hot enough to boil a monkey's bum!
- neko6, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3Public slander is a crime, it is different than being called names by someone.
Harassment is also a crime, so you are able to get rid of repeating negative influences. - Sawta, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3@ thestranger
I'm pretty sure that's the lamest thing comment I've ever read on this site.
To quote a movie: "The problem isn't that they think you're gay. The problem is that you give a *****."
If someone is berating you on a consistent enough basis to cause physical and emotional distress, you've probably done something pretty serious to deserve it. it (Car accident, running over someone's pet, etc.) And if not, then you need to learn how to be an adult and confront them with: words, fists, or a restraining order. I'm so sick of idiotic laws being past because of incodents like these; simply because people have forgotten how to interact with each other in a mature and sane manner (outside of a court room). - Strungout, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3Eh Bumfinder is messed up, I don't see why they took him to task for RottenNeighbor though with sites that let you rate your ex's with descriptions on why they suck.
- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -4/+7Very interesting story..good job. Dug and submitted to today's DDD!
- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -1/+5Dugg for the psychopathic face
- boodog, on 05/17/2008, -3/+6LoWLife ... does he not have any ideas that are not exploitive, deviant or outright greedy?
How about creating a technology that adds value to society! You wouldn't have to take the site down and your mother would be proud! Unless you F(ed) her over too? - drexl, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3His next venture will be "You to can Be an *****"
- NoSalt, on 05/19/2008, -0/+3DARN ... from the name of the website I assumed they were finding chicks with hot butts.
I'm sad now ... - inactive, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2One could do something with that intention... or maybe someone already has, I thought that was what it was before I read.
- desertDenizen, on 05/17/2008, -2/+4Here's an idea for a site: BrantShadyDoucheWalkerWatch.com
- Dumbledorito, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2That's a strange expression, Bruce!
- cplusplus, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Look for your friends with the most friends and they are probably dealers.
- scabbers, on 05/17/2008, -3/+5This would come in handy for the Brazilian police death squads in tracking down street children.
- ijustlost, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2This epitomises all that is bad with the world
- d0LLZ19, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3He seems to think he is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
- princessrachel, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2TOO
- n0odles, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4What an asscrack. Seriously, he thinks he's some Internet pioneer. I bet use to torture squirrels when he was a kid.
- mi2ca, on 05/17/2008, -1/+3he's a total lowlife.
- Cornrider, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Our friends from Anonimous need to pay this angel a visit, get medieval on his ass (you know, the torches, the truly spiked sex toys and 10 minute emergency facial surgery kit, etc) Right after that any of us can upload his picture and build an awesome website called, maybe: "www.momialmostobliteratedhitlersreincarnatemutantsonoutofthisplanet.org". yes, I know Anonimous are not out to do anything like that but I was trying to create something in my mind which is like a white canvas where I create fantasies that will benefit the world.
- Sawta, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Huh, I thought this story was going to be about websites that directly rip off and (poorly) implement other peoples ideas. At least this guy had some original ideas, they were just pretty horrible ones.
Actually, now that I think about it, RottenNeighbor just sounds like a rip off of RateMyProfessor. Just a slightly different angle. - cubikon, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1For example: Digg
- ReyX, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1This is a great proxy for xenophobia. I bet you the "rotten smell" was food cooked by someone who scored high on the "swarth-O-meter". We can't have THOSE people around the neighborhood, you know...
- empiric, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2"Public" meaning here all of the public except you?
- princessrachel, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1you too!? brother!!!
- Cornrider, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1another inhabitant of planet Doucheopolis pops out of Digg's ass :O
- smek2, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1So there's a dark side to Scientology? Who'd knew?
- Tomboys, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1He says he can't be held liable but can the people who post slanderous stuff on his site be held liable? Anyone know?
- Mononuclear, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2not on facebook but the story of drug dealers has been told about orkut google's social network site. In Brazil a huge percentage of the population use orkut (it's more popular than facebook or myspace is in the US) and there are also a lot of problems with drug dealers, child pornography, etc on there and has been covered in Brazilian news as well as mainstream US news
- thestranger, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1sorry, posted this wrong in the wrong spot to neko6 :I never said it wasn't. I was talking about what is against the law and isn't I was talking about that guy calling people "pussies". But since you brought it up, slander and harassment are very hard to prove, and also the repeated hate speech and toxic verbal abuse is often times not reported and not by one particular person over and over. The problem is that people don't see how being called; a F**Kin' fag can be to people (or whatever names) for their entire life. Hell, I am not even gay, have a girlfriend, and still to this day get called a fag at bars at least 2-3 times a year. Not sure why? Cause I wear slightly tighter clothes, skinny, dress decent?!? Who knows, but all I know is that when I hear that (i've been hearing since I was about 12) my stomach twists, my face gets, and I immediately want to leave. I can only imagine what it's like for people who are openly gay, or gray more "effeminate", or have "gay" mannerisms.
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