[sonofhans]

No platform should facilitate targeted anonymous messages; that’s one thing we’ve for sure learned about social media, in part thanks to Sarahah. It should be noted that the reason Google and Apple “disliked” it is that hundreds of thousands of their customers petitioned to have it removed. Those people were mostly parents whose kids were getting bullied anonymously.

[zainalabdin878]

anonymity brings many challenges indeed. with regards to the petition and what's commonly shared in conventional media, we have proved to Apple that it's based on a falsified case that our filtration system doesn't allow, the removal's story is rather complicated and not justified and many other anonymous apps were allowed, what we were told after clarifying this to Apple was: "executives requested the removal". Anyhow, this is no history and we surely learned many lessons from sarahah an interesting fact is that sarahah's original idea was inspired by my boss's request for feedback, and the early version of owlears was just that (anonymous feedback in the workplace) Thank you

[PittleyDunkin]

> No platform should facilitate targeted anonymous messages;

Isn't this basically all social media? Or just the internet in general? It's pretty trivial to do on any platform I can think of.

[causal]

Most social media requires some identifying details to make it difficult to cyberbully someone without recourse. Sarahah did not. A lot of young people suffered because of Sarahah

[wraptile]

Is it really difficult though? You need a phone number but that's about it which in US doesn't even require presenting an ID right?

[PittleyDunkin]

Thanks for the explanation; i had never heard of it before this thread.