There will of course be a secret mirror blacklist: anyone who does report sexual assault to the authorities will find it much harder to get a job and impossible to access the inner circle.

(Famously, Weinstein did this to actresses)

> Also feels like something that could be life ruining if someone innocent finds themselves on the list by mistake/fluke.

Not as likely as you think. The reason a list like this feels necessary to many (presumably mostly) women is that in SV culture there's a presumption that these sorts of claims are almost always baseless. That these women engaged in consensual activities and either regretted it after the fact or were trying to make a buck.

Maybe Robert Scoble should tweet about how unfair life is, put forward an absurd definition of sexual harassment, accuse women of reporting it to fit in with the cool crowd, attack his own accusers, and plug his latest business venture again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230597

Then all the other sexual assaulters can leap to his defense and circle the wagons around him again!

Interesting that every instance of sexual assault is preemptively doubted by default, whereas that's not a primary part of the conversation for accusations of other crimes like arson, theft, embezzlement, etc. False accusations of any crime could hurt the accused, that's more or less an unavoidable tautology of the legal system. There's just one kind of crime where public conversation obsesses about that, though.

> Also feels like something that could be life ruining if someone innocent finds themselves on the list by mistake/fluke.

Life-ruining? No, not at all. Not even close.