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Your belief sounds rooted in fear. Can you actually cite cases where doxxing & abuse happened over a conversation with a stranger in a cafe? And even if such ca

Your belief sounds rooted in fear. Can you actually cite cases where doxxing & abuse happened over a conversation with a stranger in a cafe? And even if such cases exist I would confidently guess you’re more likely to die in a car crash than get doxxed on twitter by a hate mob. And no one is avoiding ever using cars or being a pedestrian on a street with car traffic to save their lives. Maybe knowing in 2020 one can experience rabid social media mobs, and the newness and degree of its terror is skewing our idea of how likely this kind of event actually is. But I see this view presented regularly as though every one of us lives in active risk of being a single slip of the tongue away from ruining our lives. And it’s so strange and not in line with the reality I live in.

ThrowawayR2 6y ago
Remember that guy who was doxxed and fired because he made what somebody thought was the (now off-limits) OK symbol? https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-over-alleged-racist-gesture-says-he-was-cracking-knuckles/2347414/ https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove... No, the GP's scenario is not at all implausible. To think otherwise is to be oblivious to the on-edge nature of our times.
- ritchiea 6y ago
  You didn't respond to the substance of my comment. It's possible for someone to misunderstand you and for you to lose your job over it. It's also possible to die in a traffic accident. The former is probably more rare than the latter but the former seems to be legitimately terrorizing many people based on the frequency of internet comments I see about it.
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- TeaDrunk 6y ago
  Upon googling it, the amount of outcry as a response makes it pretty obvious to me that it's considered exceptional and not normal. Does anyone have any aggregated studies about social media and firing?
  - ThrowawayR2 6y ago
    > "it pretty obvious to me that it's considered exceptional and not normal." Is it? Note that the person here accused is both Jewish and Mexican: https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/09/04/lawyer-accused-flashing-white-power-hand-gesture-kavanaugh-hearing/ https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/09/04/lawyer-accused-flashi... Other examples exist of people being removed from their jobs for the same if you Google for it, though many of those are more ambiguous.
    - hrbf 6y ago
      That may be. However, it strikes me that most if not all of these cases are US-based. The world works differently in different places.

ThrowawayR2 6y ago

Remember that guy who was doxxed and fired because he made what somebody thought was the (now off-limits) OK symbol? https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-over-alleged-racist-gesture-says-he-was-cracking-knuckles/2347414/ https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove... No, the GP's scenario is not at all implausible. To think otherwise is to be oblivious to the on-edge nature of our times.

ritchiea 6y ago
You didn't respond to the substance of my comment. It's possible for someone to misunderstand you and for you to lose your job over it. It's also possible to die in a traffic accident. The former is probably more rare than the latter but the former seems to be legitimately terrorizing many people based on the frequency of internet comments I see about it.
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TeaDrunk 6y ago
Upon googling it, the amount of outcry as a response makes it pretty obvious to me that it's considered exceptional and not normal. Does anyone have any aggregated studies about social media and firing?
- ThrowawayR2 6y ago
  > "it pretty obvious to me that it's considered exceptional and not normal." Is it? Note that the person here accused is both Jewish and Mexican: https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/09/04/lawyer-accused-flashing-white-power-hand-gesture-kavanaugh-hearing/ https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/09/04/lawyer-accused-flashi... Other examples exist of people being removed from their jobs for the same if you Google for it, though many of those are more ambiguous.
  - hrbf 6y ago
    That may be. However, it strikes me that most if not all of these cases are US-based. The world works differently in different places.