Faces of the Riot website uses facial recognition to catalog Capitol protesters

This is pretty disturbing tbh. I really can’t believe someone thought it’d be a good idea to make this. I have no confidence that they’re distinguishing between rioters, and media, passerby’s, police, and genuinely non violent people. If you’re someone cheering this on ask yourself how long before it happens at a protest you support, your kids are at, your friends or you. This is a pretty fucked up thing these people made.

Refreshing to see that the top Ars comments are supporting this. I’m looking forward to the tables turning around when “they” take control of the situation again, and remember all of this, and the events that have yet to happen.<p>I remember a few months ago one of the YC alumni building a website to document anyone who supports the RNC for the quoted intention of shaming them and making their lives&#x2F;livelihood harder. They were so proud of it and advertised it on Twitter. I’ll see if I can dig up the name of one of the authors. They took the tweet down when they realized the audience found them no better than the Nazi supporters of the 30s putting together lists of the Jews.<p>This doesn’t end well, and people won’t forget this.<p>Eye for an eye, and then some.

Funny how this is all okay when it comes to the Capitol riot of 2021. But was the same done for the Capitol riots when Kavanaugh was nominated? Nope. What about the multiple “climate justice” riots incited by AOC and Tlaib, also at the Capitol? Nothing - it was barely covered in media. What about the various riots and criminal incidents related to BLM or Antifa? What about the various autonomous zones that popped up in Seattle and Portland over the last year?<p>Invariably when any push is made to bring leftist criminals to justice, activists cry foul, peddle cliches like “riots are the language of the unheard”, attack anyone posting photos or streams of criminals as “doxxing”, and so on.<p>There is a clear undeniable double standard behind all this (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.allsides.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;capitol-hill-breach-riot-coverage-demonstrates-media-bias" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.allsides.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;capitol-hill-breach-riot-cover...</a>), and it involves politicians, social media giants, news media, and everyday people. The fact that places like Ars or Wired are happily normalizing leftist witch hunts, by being less directly and overtly critical than they could be, should alarm everyone. But the rot goes much much deeper.