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There are no solid principles, times change and people change. Would it have made a difference if a month ago they forbade websites that dox people?
by Bancakes 4y ago
There are no solid principles, times change and people change. Would it have made a difference if a month ago they forbade websites that dox people?
- cowtools 4y agoSince when is "doxxing" a crime? I'm told that the new york times has "doxxed" people on numerous occasions. Should they get taken down?
- Bancakes 4y agoIt doesn't have to be a crime, just a waste of bandwidth.
- redeeman 4y agothey doxxed a twitter user causing that user to face credible life threats and had to evacuate and go into hiding.. but they are a-okay naturally
- cowtools 4y agoIf "go into hiding" means "not posting personally-identifiable information on the public internet", then that doesn't sound so bad. In fact, that's what I always do all the time on the internet, as should everyone.
- redeeman 4y agoby "go into hiding" i mean leaving their house, living in a new undisclosed location, as people are coming to their house
- cowtools 4y agoThis is why it's unwise to ever post one's location online. It is truly pitiful, because this is ultimately what social media encourages. They encourage tagging posts by location, they rip the EXIF data from the images (which most users don't even know exists in the first place). This is all information that is fed into the advertising and mass surveillance machine. At the very least, this is what we have castle doctrine and self-defense law for.
- redeeman 4y agothis twitter user did not, the washington post editor decided to do that, and personally went to harras the user in questions family
- Bancakes 4y agoWhy should most of the internet change their habits due to one website? Or a handful if you include Chan's.
- not_a_shill 4y agoHow was it determined that the life threats were credible? If they were *actually* credible I'd imagine Keffals is gonna end up dead pretty soon given the escalation of attacks on KF. But they're not credible and nothing will happen.
- redeeman 4y agoi would consider it credible when people show up at your house, for one.
- not_a_shill 4y agoDid they commit violence or make any attempt on her life when they were there? Seems like a pretty good time to do it to me if they had intended to do so.