Rely on this information for what?
In a lengthy disclaimer on the database website, Pounds warned that her data may not be 100 percent accurate. “Inferred, ideological, and patron/sphere associations are analytical interpretations, not statements of fact, and nothing here alleges unlawful conduct by any named person or organization,” the disclaimer states. “Do not rely on this material without independent verification.”
Oh, they’ll rely on it all right. That disclaimer is just so the creator can claim some amount of plausible deniability if they get sued.
What a pussy headline. I’m thinking, this is shitty, but isn’t it just the bullshit voter registration rolls that the asshole is illegally trying to fuck with? But no, if you only read the title, like the majority of us morons, you wouldn’t realize it was a database of suspected DSA members or people who lean that way. Just a modern day version of good ol’ McCarthy’s ,“I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.”
Even less defensible than that, it’s a “public tool”, ostensibly designed to assist unaffiliated right wing terrorists with stalking people
