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Doxxing that results in harassment is very often done via public information. What’s your point?
by antiterra 6y ago
Doxxing that results in harassment is very often done via public information. What’s your point?
- toomuchtodo 6y agoThat the sharing of public information of public figures is in the public interest. Also, doxxing isn’t illegal, although harassment is.
- sixothree 6y agoMaybe facebook has more insight as to how this article was being shared.
- neolog 6y ago> doxxing isn’t illegal It is against Facebook's rules.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoIs sharing unusual real estate transactions without the actual address doxxing? I wouldn’t think so. This allows the dissemination of information without triggering Facebook’s inconsistent application of their own rules, and the public can refer directly to the canonical real estate ownership ledger (county records).
- josephcsible 6y agoThe problem is that Facebook selectively enforces these rules.
- nate_meurer 6y agoNo, doxxing is the release of private information. That's the universally understood meaning of the term, and the only useful one. If you want to redefine the term to pertain to public information, then the term is no longer useful. It's just "displaying public information" at that point.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 6y agoThe canonical dox is posting someone’s name and address. If that’s not doxxing, the word has no meaning.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> canonical dox is posting someone’s name and address Posting a pseudonymous person’s name and address divulges private information: the real person behind the pseudonym. Posting a public official’s name and address isn’t doxxing.
- ipaddr 6y agoLike saying Bidan lives at the white house? Stating public information actually very public in this case isn't doxing.
- jasonfarnon 6y ago"and the only useful one" Actually this is a useless definition, because what constitutes "private information" is exactly at issue
- nate_meurer 6y agoIn exactly what way is information available in public government databases considered private. Please be specific. Regardless of your definition of public, the word doxxing has never covered it. We have plenty of other language to refer to the sharing of publicly available information. The word doxxing was coined to give a name to a type of invasion of privacy that came to prominence with the rise of the Internet. If you want doxxing to just mean gossip, then your word no longer has a useful and distinct meaning.
- krainboltgreene 6y agoIf I didn't consent to that data to be stored in a public government database.