> Airlines do not have the privilege of not barring some other airline's violent customer.

> Shoplift a ham at Albertson's in California

> when they call the FBI and ask "is this person on the predator list" before hiring you

> if you bounce three checks at Walmart, you can't go to Jiffy Lube anymore

> nine US states have public lists of check fraud people

> Are you aware of the sex offender registry? The arsonist registry? Have you ever heard of the Neighborhood Watch? Does it bother you that the McGruff the Crime Dog kits used to send out lists monthly?

> you can go into any chain hotel - let's just say a Hilton - and take a big fat dump on the ground. Guess what other 35 hotel chains will not rent to you worldwide, afterwards

> Do you think he shouldn't pass bad check information between his three stores

> I googled the phrase "list of con men," and I got things on CNBC, Wikipedia, Ranker, Money Magazine, a page on Penguin Publishing about a book about this, the BBC, etc.

> Is it bad that they tell the rest of the country when a murder happens who did it

> When Ashley Judd made a list of rapists in Hollywood, and got the ball rolling on Harvey Weinstein, do you think she was doing a bad thing somehow?

> extremely common practice of keeping track of problem people

You keeping equating these developers to criminals. I don’t think it’s a fair comparison.

1) They broke no law

2) There’s no civilized justice system here

> I don't actually agree with you, that people who harm one another have some weird right to privacy from consequences of their own actions.

You agreed to use the code “AS IS”. They have no obligation to you.

> For my part, I actually struggle with the US law about hiding this stuff just for minors. I mostly agree with it, but not entirely.

I think it’s something worth considering. Minor’s brains are still developing as is their ethics and knowledge of the world. Seems harsh to me to associates them with a rash act from their childhood forever.

> Please be aware that the second you tell someone they're in any way similar to Joseph McCarthy, your chances of being taken seriously have dropped to epsilon.

Not end result McCarthy, early days McCarthy where he probably thought he was doing good in the world.

> If someone turned up on a blacklist during an interview, and that blacklist gave factual, researchable information about what that person had done, and the person lost that job offer as a result, I would think their actions, not the list, resulted in the lost offer.

This is why these lists are so powerful. Not everyone bothers to read the details of each case. They see the name on the list and assume they did it. Take any of your criminal list examples above. Do you think other people research these individual cases? No, they assume that if you’re on the list, you did the “bad thing”. They all assume it was the person’s actions that got them on the list. McCarthy supporters would have said the same thing about his list: don’t want to be on it? Don’t be a communist. That’s why transparency and some type of “undo” is so important. Everyone makes mistakes — even the list makers.

It’s clear you’ll keep doing whatever you feel like doing. I just hope at some point you realize that you’re fallible and not a neutral arbiter and to get some outside checks and balances and a variety of thought processes to the task if you want to keep doing this.