Were that to happen, I imagine it would be a relatively simple matter to move everything out of state, or even out of the country if need be.

No one is going to enforce this. It’s political theater, and will in no way protect children.

You can easily make it so that you never see any downvotes via the Lemmy settings. Or, you can move to a Lemmy instance that doesn’t allow downvoting.

There are a lot of reasons for this. Some people never learned how to manage their emotions or how to disagree in a mature manner. A lot of people feel frustrated, angry and powerless in their everyday lives, so being nasty to others online provides a weird sort of catharsis for them. Others simply never acquired the necessary social skills to successfully function in society to any significant degree. Still others are narcissists who derive feelings of power from making others feel small. The list goes on and on.

I’m not really sure, either. Do some Lemmy clients curate what’s in your feed based upon votes? If that’s the case, I can see people trying to manipulate that…

No, really the best example I can give is the one I’ve already made about the racist neighbor. If there isn’t a term for this sort of behavior, there needs to be one.

Both of those terms are accurate to what I’m describing. It’s like racist neighbors finding everything wrong with the upkeep of your house or how much noise your kids are making just to cover up the fact that they don’t want to live next to someone of color.

I’ve not heard of ‘sanewashing’ before. That’s an interesting one. It may be ‘gaslighting’, but I’m not sure. A fictional example of what I’m talking about would be the guy who dates a woman to get closer to her sister. Or Homer Simpson buying a bowling ball for Marge Simpson’s birthday and saying ‘Well, if you don’t want it, I know someone who could really, really use it…’ :D

It really depends on the company you’re applying to. If it’s a small business? Yeah, no. They usually can’t afford or don’t want to bother with a vetting agency. If it’s some big corporation? Sure, they’ll probably do that. At the end of the day though, it’s a question of how suspicious you or your resume look that will decide how much energy they want to put in to vetting the claims you make.

You’re assuming that the HR department is diligent and willing to expend the energy to track you, and the other three hundred candidates’ information down for this single role. In my experience, this is a wild assumption.

I’m quite happy with the Mullvad browser.

It’s kind of weird, but I find that the higher a film is rated by film critics and websites, the less I tend to enjoy it.

I call bullshit.