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Anonymous drops names of KKK members online, including US politicians
- fuzzywalrus 11y agoThe obvious question is: How does one even verify such claims? Without any real evidence, its hard to really take this seriously.
- eric_h 11y agoTrue. It could simply be a list of people that some fraction of those hitching their horse to the "Anonymous" moniker believe deserve to be dragged through the media based on some perceived prejudice. Still - I thought it was interesting.
- thinkling 11y agoAt least one of the names on the list seems very plausibly wrong: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/02/1443561/-Knoxville-mayor-uses-humor-to-perfectly-respond-to-KKK-allegation http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/02/1443561/-Knoxville-...
- krapp 11y agoThe only possible way to verify anything is for someone to admit their membership in the KKK. Denial is confession in the eyes of many people, where politicians are concerned. It plays on populist cynicism in a way that kind of makes it the ultimate form of blackmail or political slander. Anonymous can drop dox on any politician and the worse the accusations are, the more likely it is people will believe them. And of course, "Anonymous" would never be affiliated with any political party or campaign...
- ironsides 11y agoPossibly related: Bruce Schneier - "The Rise of Political Doxing" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/the_rise_of_pol.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/the_rise_of_p...
- eric_h 11y agoCertainly related, though this Anonymous "KKK dump" seems substantially less verifiable than the CIA director's dump, as another commenter mentioned (his comment was on general verifiability, but I think the point still holds).