*On a recent episode of “Black People Are Funny as Hell!” self-described “hacktivist” and TikTok-er Sean Black created a code that will flood the Texas Right to Life “whistleblower” website, a draconian method set up in a virtually medieval state designed to allow folks to snitch on women seeking abortions, with so much fodder as to render it useless.
On Wednesday the restrictive Texas abortion law went into effect overnight after the U.S. Supreme Court vote to not doing anything about it. The new law bans abortion after a month and a half, despite the fact that it’s extremely difficult to know if one is pregnant at that stage. The law also allows abortion providers, those who’re seeking abortion, and even those who provide transport to those seeking these services, to be sued for at least $10,000. (Yuck!)
Sean reportedly says his script sends one request to the website every 10 to 15 seconds. Later, Black says the script sent 300 requests simultaneously before the site blocked his IP address.
To get around that he created a iOS short for anyone with an iPhone to quickly and easily replicated his script. The shortcut picks a random Texas city, county, and ZIP code and other required information, and then inputs that data into the reporting form.
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Sean Black, an activists on TikTok, created a bot that makes it easy to submit fake tips to a “whistleblower” website created by the Texas anti-abortion Right To Life group. https://t.co/YeSSk0lJUs
— NPR (@NPR) September 3, 2021
About his venture, Black told Motherboard, VICE’s tech site, “To me the McCarthyism era tactics of turning neighbors against each other over a bill I feel is a violation of Roe V Wade is unacceptable. There are people on TikTok using their platform to educate and do their part. I believe this is me doing mine.”
A TikTok user commented, while praising Black, “Do you prefer king, queen, ruler or perhaps techromancer the almighty.” Another one said, “What did we do to deserve you.” “You are officially the reason I have faith in humanity,” a person added.
Check out these other comments:
It would be a shame if someone sent a ton of fake tips to the Texas pro-life whistleblower website…@SeanDaBlack created an iOS shortcut to do just this. Idea inspired by @0liviajulianna and @HammettVictoria.
iOS shortcut – https://t.co/uOy5I8oYea pic.twitter.com/paAet9maEa
— Gabe Sanchez (@iamgabesanchez) September 2, 2021
Please spread far and wide. The website she referred to is at: www . Prolifewhistleblower . Compic.twitter.com/3YLStXiyht
— Piyush Mittal (@piyushmittal) September 2, 2021
The website that Texas is using for people to snitch on Women seeking abortions is:https://t.co/ktapwulUaR
You can help crash this website by entering bullshit info.
RT to make Good Trouble.#TexasTaliban
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) September 2, 2021
The website that Texas is using for people to snitch on Women seeking abortions is:https://t.co/ktapwulUaR
You can help crash this website by entering bullshit info.
RT to make Good Trouble.#TexasTaliban
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) September 2, 2021
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