I was contacted by someone claiming that Peter Pawlowski is not /u/morpen. They said that Peter Pawlowski is in fact a real person but he has nothing whatsoever to do with Masstagger. The term "masstagger" was associated with Peter Pawlowski for a long time due to him releasing Foobar2000 with a masstagging capability and it's possible that /u/morpen took the name "Masstagger" from Foobar2000 and used for his own software but it's otherwise unrelated.
In other news, /u/Bardfinn got into an argument with yet another Reddit user telling him he's being unreasonable:
I do hope some ambitiously litigious Euro leans on her and morpen though. That would be amusing.
I think people who say "you can't use the law/LE for this" need to keep two things separate here:
1) the data-mining, which absolutely a violation of privacy rights under the GDPR
2) stigmatizing innocent people as "far right Natsees" to paint a target on their backs and sic Antifa onto them.
Number 1) has absolutely already happenened at least once, probably multiple times already. "But I didn't know they were Europeans!" is irrelevant as an excuse because you shouldn't be data-mining people behind their backs to explicitly violate their presumption of privacy on Reddit. Fortunately most people use aliases on Reddit, but some post under their real names (God knows why) and it's inevitable they got tagged as far right Natsees too. If they are Europeans, he's already fucked.
Number 2) might not be in violation of American criminal law due to strong free speech protections, but calling someone a "far right Natsee" is considered criminal defamation in many European countries that have so-called "public insult" laws. In the US /u/morpen could still be subject to civil suits for defaming American Reddit users posting under their real names.
By way of an analogy: Suppose Masstagger was called "Pedotagger" and /u/morpen went around tagging Reddit users as "pedophiles" just because they politically disagree with him. Everyone would agree that's completely unacceptable and potentially instigating witchhunts of innocent people. But just because /u/morpen pretends to be a Natsee hunter, all of a sudden he's allowed to smear and stigmatize innocent people. There's a double standard there that Reddit needs to be made aware of.
I think /u/morpen is well aware of his culpability. Penny Oaken clearly doesn't give a shit because he's a psychiatric patient, he can plead insanity and spend some time vomitting on himself in a hospital again instead of going to jail like a regular person. /u/morpen on the other hand has to hide his identity because he's painting targets on innocent people's backs and he knows it.
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Come on now, there's like a gorillion different troon sub reddits
