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These doxing sites don't actually allow anything new, they just aggregate and automate public records searches. It just didn't cause problems because the incon
by travisoneill1 8y ago
These doxing sites don't actually allow anything new, they just aggregate and automate public records searches. It just didn't cause problems because the inconvenience was too high of a barrier for most people without a compelling interest (like a potential employer) to cross. The law is not good at handling this type of situation. It would be hard to have a law saying that this data has to be public and open, but not re-publishable and it has to be inconvenient to access. I don't really know a good solution to that.
And why should a celebrities and public officials have different standards? Either it's fair to judge someone by a certain past action or it isn't.
- conception 8y agoPeople who move into the public eye generally are held to a different standard of anonymity, which is why I separated them. And yes, the issue isn't that it's new, it (like many internet social issues) is scale. A few bad actors locally to now thousands world-wide.