Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made
5 hours ago
- #campus_controversy
- #privacy_issues
- #student_project
- Created a website called iitsocial.com that scraped data of all students at IIT Delhi and created profiles for them.
- Users could make anonymous accounts and comment on profiles, tag others in categories like 'has dated', 'crushing on', 'crushed on by', or 'haters'.
- Launched site at 1 am and it gained over 300 accounts within an hour, with high engagement.
- Received threats from a student involved in college politics and calls from security and police demanding site removal.
- Met with dean who argued the site disrupted harmony and misused the IIT Delhi name.
- Phone confiscated and recordings deleted by security after they discovered he was recording the meeting.
- Dean later became supportive, checking on him after he took the site down due to pressure.
- Site relaunched briefly but taken down permanently after another complaint.
- Site had significant impact with 7k unique visitors and 16k posts despite only 5k undergraduates.