Bullies Are Effectually Hitler

Bullying is treated like a public health crisis these days. The highest echelons of our government are mustered to fight the name-calling. They screened the movie Bully at the White House, and then Valerie Jarrett wrote a term paper about it.

The Department of Health & Human Services manages a dot gov website to better manage the hive mind in the service of ending bad words. So fighting bullying can be big business.

Keep in mind that research shows that schools with anti-bullying programs actually experience more bullying. These programs may teach abusers ways to hide their behaviors.

Eight women have decided that what the internet really needs is a doxing service. Social Autopsy (@socialcoroner) is an inaptly-named "search database that aggregates people's social behavior and creates real profiles for them," according to founder Candace Owens.

"What we do," Owens says, "is attach their words to their places of employment." In other words, if you go on Facebook and post something about Caitlyn Jenner's cock 'n' balls, they will publish your workplace and, hopefully, get you fired. The project's Kickstarter page, which was suspended for unexplained reasons, features a photo of the Taylor Swift squad.

What these women really want is to be popular. "Hey, let's get an IT guy fired for joking about the word "dongle" at a tech conference. Then we'll be the popular ones!"

They aren't going to win any awards for competence. Start with the name. An autopsy is something that is performed on a deceased person's body, to determine the cause of death. If they wanted to convey an image of forensics expertise, then why not "Digital Forensics?" Or even "Digital Rape Kit?" Their motto could be: "We Dig Deeper!"

Whoever is posting on @socialcoroner timeline is a strutting, illiterate fuck-wit. "Having an opinion and perpetuation lies to a group of people that rely on your for facts is harmful."

Social Autopsy lists as partners the Tyler Clementi Foundation, who believe that people who are bullied are "effectually the same," as "German jews in 1940 being walked to gas chambers."

Bullies are effectually Hitler.

The best thing that could happen to Social Autopsy would be for someone to commit suicide so their website can go viral. They've already convinced themselves that telling someone to drink bleach is a death threat, and saying "I hope you get raped," is a rape threat. I wonder if they can convince someone to turn off notifications?