Someone made what I am currently imagining to be one of the worst comments I have ever seen on a public Facebook page, stating that women “had responsibility” to prevent pregnancies “by keeping their legs closed”, calling those who got pregnant and chose to continue the pregnancy whores that only did it for means-tested government benefits that pregnancy and having a child would permit them to have. Needless to say, in addition to reporting the comment itself to Facebook for hate speech, I also found the man’s employer because he had all of that information publicly available on his Facebook page. I contacted them with the unredacted screenshot, asking them if they knew how someone was representing their company on his off time. Once they asked me how I came across this comment and found out where he worked — all information that I was happy to provide given the circumstances — they thanked me, and they got back to me a day later telling me that his job’s HR (human relations) department and his manager would be speaking to him about the comment in question. Some time after this, he deleted the comment from Facebook as though that would somehow make it to where he had never even made it in the first place.

But screenshots live forever. They are well aware of what they said to the tune of wanting to talk to him.