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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 125 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Sure would be a shame if someone linked to the website or even directly to the form where people could spam it and waste public officials’ time until they take it down.

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 75 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Not even a captcha, that's rookie-level shit. I could automate spamming the shit out of that in my sleep.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 62 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh no. That would be such a shame. Especially if someone linked to the script.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Where are those discord script kiddies?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's 2pm. I think this is prime masturbation time, since Mom is out of the house. But I'm sure they'll post a script later.

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Nah, prime time is like 3:30. Right now they're still in school

[–] beckerist@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Seems they just put it behind a login that requires a photo ID to create an account

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 12 points 8 months ago

Or maybe Johnny can help.

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Still works for me, but the direct link jeff posted doesn't work. Use the first link then click on the "Submit to Portal" button. It seems to generate some sort of a GUID that's maybe tied to a session? I didn't dig very far into it as I'm about to shut my computer down as it's date/store night, lol.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I hope no one takes this up as a “challenge”.

I say, let the priests be meddlesome! No need to be rid of them.

[–] AlijahTheMediocre@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Oh the humanity, a shame if someone made a script and distributed it with instructions on how to use it.

Looks like login is required now.

We did it Lemmy.

[–] Alf11@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The form even requires at least one file to be uploaded to submit… How could that go wrong?

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Any file size limitations? Would be a shame if they get gigabytes of text files filled with useless garbage.

[–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Why text? Upload porn. Then contact another conservative state's Attorney General saying they should block the Indiana site for having porn.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

I did my duty and reported Gary School For Snails to them, and attached an image as proof.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sure wish I was better at scripting. I used to live in Indiana, still have family there, hell, I grew up there. I'm ashamed to call that place my home now. This shit is basically Mcarthyism from the 1950s. History repeats itself I guess.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

You can totally sign up with an anonymous mailinator.com email address!

Also, the direct link you provided didn't work for me. After I made an account, I had to navigate around the site to find the form.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

This shit still isn't locked down? This article popped up a few weeks ago, and I did my part in reporting some very concerning memes.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 55 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 23 points 8 months ago

Shame they couldn't extend that to being anti Russian government again at least.

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are these socialists in the room with you now, Todd?

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 12 points 8 months ago

Some national "socialists" might be, not that those actually count

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I bet the power of the internet quickly makes this useless.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how hard it would be to automate some...ahem...reports.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Be a shame if someone used ChatGPT to make unique, large, real looking, and hard to filter fake reports.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Wait a minute... I'm on the internet! I can make this useless. Thanks for the idea!

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is it illegal tbere to be a socialist?

[–] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

By socialist he means anything he doesn't like. A lot of the rightwing politicians aren't interested in good honest debate. Instead they engage in dog whistle politics, and their base eats that up.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Gol dang woke teaches!!

sput

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

You're absolutely correct.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 19 points 8 months ago

Not illegal, just heresy. Capitalism is our state religion and I get the same reaction from folks when I say I'm an atheist, too.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Aren’t all public school teachers technically socialist teachers? Since their salaries are paid by taxes.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

No Siree, here in Indiana we don't have any truck with socialism. Our government employs unionized people to teach Jesus's gospel about feeding the poor - no room for socialism here.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Please stop making sense and report them already! /s

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Didn't have 2024 as the speed runner's version of WW1 and WW2 worst of compilation. But here we are. Nazis, trying to destroy democracy, socialist/Communist snitching, controlling woman's reproductive rights in all forms, Italy has a Mussolini and straight up genocide.

Germany- keep your shit together, Austria- protect your leaders, and Poland- lock your doors!

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These never work, because they inevitably get flooded with bullshit reports, but if Biden wins this year, I hope Congress takes aim at curbing these "bounty hunter" schemes.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

It is more about the Senate and the House

VOTE

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

I'm sure this is all being done altruistically to protect the children. What a trash fucking human being.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Party that collectively chokes on putin’s dick wants you to snitch on “socialist” teachers

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Jesus had some pretty socialist ideas... watch the right's head explode when it becomes an anti-christian snitch line.

(Looks into the GOP playbook). Wait, this has nothing to do with the ideology of the teacher, and everything to do with the pay. Newer teachers have less health costs and get paid lower. The more teachers get fired for any reason, the lower the pay. Just an end-run around teachers unions disguised as a ideological attack.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


That’s the gist of a new project launched by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Republican, who has created a portal called “Eyes on Education” that encourages members of the public to tattle on teachers they believe are pushing so-called “woke” content on kids.

Eyes on Education enables self-styled whistleblowers to submit evidence to the state of “objectionable curricula, policies, or programs.” And the site presents a selection of such content, organized by school district.

The new state website asserts it is non-partisan, claiming to be interested in rooting out “political ideology — either left or right.” But when he announced the launch of the portal earlier this month, Rokita made the bias of the project clear, insisting Eyes on Education exists to expose “examples of socialist indoctrination” in the classroom — and seeks to highlight “destructive” teaching practices that “divide kids from their parents” and from what Rokita deems “normal society.”

This includes screen grabs from YouTube transcripts where a superintendent mentions the words “black lives matter” or references “diversity and inclusion.” The supposedly objectionable material includes a screenshot of a social media post by Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter Bernice, in which she writes: “There is no form of protest against racism or method of teaching about racism that will be palatable to racists.” (The word “racists” has been highlighted.)

One document posted to the site and reviewed by Rolling Stone contains personally identifying details of instructors, including email address and phone numbers, effectively doxing these professionals, and opening them up to public harassment.

The open letter calls Eyes on Education a violation of teacher privacy that engages in the “intentional act of doxing.” And it accuses Rokita of pushing “manufactured outrage” to target a profession that is being “incessantly denigrated” by the state government.


The original article contains 1,157 words, the summary contains 297 words. Saved 74%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] Hominine@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Holy shit society, fuck these conservatives with a splintered rod already.

[–] olbaidiablo@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago

A conservative government in Canada thought a similar idea. They abandoned the idea when many people publicly stated that they would "snitch" on the local right wing nut job.

[–] TrainsAreCool@lemmy.one 7 points 8 months ago

Gotta watch out for those cultural Marxists

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

Should definitely report every public works department in the state.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

That worked our great the last time. Imma go write a play about some witches now.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

Trans-sanity sounds great. Did he not realize when you drop the "in" from the start of a word it changes its meaning?

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