IIT Delhi Student Faces Police and Expulsion Threats Over Controversial Social Website
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Summary
A student at IIT Delhi created a website called iitsocial.com that scraped data for all students at the institution and created profiles for them. The site allowed anonymous accounts to comment on anyone's profile and included tagging features for relationships like "has dated," "crushing on," and "crushed on." The creator faced severe consequences including police involvement, threats of expulsion from the dean, and phone confiscation due to the controversial nature of the website that enabled anonymous interactions and potentially harmful content about students without their consent.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledI got the police called on me, the DEAN threatened to kick me out, my phone got confiscated, all because of a website I made.
On Friday morning, around 1 am, I launched iitsocial.com
What the site was is that, I had scraped data for all students at IIT Delhi, and made a profile for all of them.
anyone could make an anonymous account, and then comment anything on anyone's profile.
Each profile also had 4 fields, where you could tag anyone, in the 'has dated', 'crushing on', 'crushed on'
Article URL: https://monyatwu.com/blog/iitsocial/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664647
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