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I feel like the actual sandal here is that The Guardian is essentially doxing public employees, using "breached" (is this just a nice way of saying the data was
by remarkEon 6y ago
I feel like the actual sandal here is that The Guardian is essentially doxing public employees, using "breached" (is this just a nice way of saying the data was maliciously acquired?) materials, because they have the wrong political opinions.
>The breach, shared with journalists by transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets, revealed the details of some donors who had previously attempted to conceal their identities using GiveSendGo’s anonymity feature, but whose identifying details the website preserved.
I've never heard of "Distributed Denial of Secrets", but if their modus oporandi is to do things like this I'm having a hard time understanding how they could be considered anything but a bad actor, especially in the current political environment.
- renewedrebecca 6y ago> because they have the wrong political opinions. Supporting a double murderer is way more than simply a "wrong political opinion."
- happytoexplain 6y agoThe subject is pretty clearly more complex than just "having" an "opinion". That's a pretty common defense with no explicit argument provided - it's often abbreviated to "wrongthink". It's essentially a victim mentality that eschews real consideration.