Slander-as-a-service: Peeple app wants people to rate and review you – whether you like it or not

Pah you have nothing to fear!

Having Googled for these two women I think I know where the Arnie got the inspiration for the 'creepy grin' in Terminator Genisys.

Maybe I'll even post that on their site under their name for whichever bimbo it is that looks like the joker.

Me Twothe only problem is...

> I shall wear my dishonour with pride!

But I fear we will be lost in the inundation about the two pink skanks founding it.

Re: Wonder what will happen...

When the CEO finds herself on there and is torn to shreds by every involuntary participant?

I suspect you'll discover that the names of the executives get the Zuckerberg treatment: somehow, that won't be public.

Is the pool of innovation so far dried up that people have to go for crap that can ONLY cause harm? Given that this happening in the land of the lawyers free, I give this until it turns a bit of profit before it is sued into the ground for libel, forcing it to disclose downvoter identity.

Re: Wonder what will happen...

Don't forget the business model is selling out all the personal details of involuntary participants. If anybody ever hands my phone number to scum like this they are going to get a rather nasty phone call from me.

I also wonder what happens if they wind up flooded with wrong numbers. Heck I just got a phone call asking for someone named Jane, what if I get a text from this vinegar and water pair letting me know that Jane was just ratted on pee-pal? What recourse does poor Jane have?

What lawsuits

This is illegal in more than half of the world on basic data protection grounds, defamation law, libel law and god knows what else. It would take less than a day or two to get an injunction and a week to make it permanent to shut down a service like this in Europe on basic data protection grounds. The same goes for at least some USA states which have a basic resemblance of data protection legislation.

It will be interesting which jurisdiction will this operate in. I do not see it working in California and New England states. They all have legislation this runs afoul of.

@heyrick

I think you don't understand this. It would mean they are covered by such and such law not the people making the comments.

Re: Antisocial Media

Fuck off!

@ Roq D. Kasba Re: Antisocial Media

All "social media" is, to some degree, "anti-social" media, only in this particular case it's rather more extensive and rather more overt than usual.

Re: I may be sexist....

I may be sexist....

.... but why I'm not surprised this gossip app has been created by two women?

That has an uncanny resemblance to the "I appreciate that this is probably horrendously politically incorrect but that is a stunning picture" statement by Alex Carter-Silk so I hope that your post won't be seen by Charlotte Proudman (she of "I will publish this private conversation because I think he is sexist" fame)...

They laughed at the inventor of the gas mask bra as well

Not really relevant - I just like to laugh at the inventor of the gas mask bra.

Innovators are good when they conceive true new clever ideas that make life better. Innovating just for the sake of changing may lead to stupid or dangerous ideas. Even Jonathan Swift mocked innovators like those...

"persons went up to Laputa [...] came back with a very little smattering in mathematics, but full of volatile spirits acquired in that airy region: that these persons, upon their return, began to dislike the management of every thing below, and fell into schemes of putting all arts, sciences, languages, and mechanics, upon a new foot."

You'd call that "disruptive", today....

"“That he had a very convenient mill within half a mile of his house, turned by a current from a large river, and sufficient for his own family, as well as a great number of his tenants; that about seven years ago, a club of those projectors came to him with proposals to destroy this mill, and build another on the side of that mountain, on the long ridge whereof a long canal must be cut, for a repository of water, to be conveyed up by pipes and engines to supply the mill, because the wind and air upon a height agitated the water, and thereby made it fitter for motion, and because the water, descending down a declivity, would turn the mill with half the current of a river whose course is more upon a level.” He said, “that being then not very well with the court, and pressed by many of his friends, he complied with the proposal; and after employing a hundred men for two years, the work miscarried, the projectors went off, laying the blame entirely upon him, railing at him ever since, and putting others upon the same experiment, with equal assurance of success, as well as equal disappointment.”"

(Gulliver's Travel, Part III, Chapter IV, Balnibarbi).

This reminds me of the DISC analysis that a corporate bullshiter consultant wanted to put everyone through. I'd not heard of that one, but it's similar to Myers Briggs, in that there's no scientific basis for it - but it's an amazing tool for sorting people into handy personality types so you can patronise them properly.

Apparently if you retake the test a couple of days later, 50% of the time you'll get a totally different result.

Anyway the website of the company what do it has this little blurb about why the test is great, and not at all sinister, oh no. And it says something like, if people are against this test, it's probably because they feel they've got something to hide. Nice!

Still, at least they're just greedy and incompetent. They're not actively harmful, unlike this charming new website.

Sometimes I think we should have special cases were lawyers are banned in disputes, and the decision is completely down to the weight of numbers on each side, and how many iron bars they happened to have brought along. The owners of the site might find themselves slightly outnumbered...

Re: Could be great for dating

"Poor hygiene and strange smells in downstairs area, would not eat there again"

--me, reviewing local Jamie's Italian.

What?

Re: "This could be the most odious idea the internet manages in 2015"

"laugh-at-a-cripple.com?"

Considering how much television nowadays is the equivalent of just that - though mainly with intellectually or emotionally disabled people - it isn't much of a stretch.

Our ancestors visited Bedlam to laugh at the lunatics, we have Big Brother and its many, many offspring.