Comment by saghm
3 days ago
> say you run a store in the city. You encounter someone who smashes some merchandise. The police don't make an arrest because the person insists it was accidental, but you're confident it was intentional. Is it wrong to share this experience with other shopkeepers?
When the "shopkeepers" are billion dollar corporations, and several levels of law enforcement (including national ones like immigration officials) are also on the network, I think it makes sense for the level of scrutiny to be a bit higher than your hypothetical
As per the article, this isn't just used by Amazon and Meta, local non profits are also use this resource.
I'd be interested in details about how visible reports from a given organization are to the others on the platform. People seem to be making comparisons to Nextdoor, but one of the fundamental parts of it is the public feed. If this is essentially a special way to DM law enforcement, it's not really comparable.
You realize that you can contact law enforcement through means that are not immediately publicly visible like on Next Door? Like, if you call 911, that's not immediately public for the world to see?
A 911 call might be subject to public records requests, but so is this Shield bulletin.