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I know you said you don't agree but you left that position up without a rebuttal so here goes. What if someone managed to dump of the personal information of ev
by ellenhp 5y ago
I know you said you don't agree but you left that position up without a rebuttal so here goes. What if someone managed to dump of the personal information of everyone in an online support group for LGBT folks and published it. That's doxxing too and this would do nothing to mitigate it.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 5y agoThis isn't the 60s. Most LGBT in western democracies are out. But, yeah, there are exceptions and corner cases to everything. I believe the fundamental idea is that "real" life didn't used to be like that, nor is it today. You just don't see the stuff you see online happening at the corner store. And the difference is that it's people you might see again, or can call the police on, or just recognise as fellow humans. The problem of anonymity sometimes being required also isn't entirely new. There have long been guarantees (or attempts at such) of anonymity for situations where the need for it was generally acknowledged. In one such case, the organisation even adopted it as their name: Alcoholics Anonymous.
- pjc50 5y agoTrans people are not necessarily out, and are particularly subject to harrasment at the moment when outed as a particularly noisy and dangerous anti-trans campaign is going on on the UK internet. The people doing the harrasment do so under their own names.
- stevenicr 5y agoAlso like to add that many "corner cases" would see less engagement - people would avoid getting mental help, support groups, religion questions, sexual health, etc if they worried it would be easy to be exposed.