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I’m feeling extremely conflicted on all of this with IA right now. On one hand, I love IA On the other hand…I’m in a long thread with their support right now

I’m feeling extremely conflicted on all of this with IA right now. On one hand, I love IA On the other hand…I’m in a long thread with their support right now on removing old snapshots of a social media account I have. Creeps are actively using the old snapshots to dox me and send me death threats using my PII. It’s incredibly frustrating and IA keeps insisting they cannot do anything about it. A small part of me hoped IA didn’t recover from today because I knew my info would be finally deleted :/

cortesoft 2y ago
Once you have been doxed, isn’t the cat kinda out of the bag at that point? Creeps already have the snapshots now, deleting them from IA is just closing the barn door after the livestock has already escaped.
- ocdtrekkie 2y ago
  Bear in mind that is the doxxing and doxxers that have happened now. There are plenty of future opportunities to be doxxed and plenty of other potential victims. Not that I'd cheer for the loss of IA, but it'd probably be nice if they took down PII on request.
- hackernewds 2y ago
  Still worth deleting future instances. What's your point?
arresin 2y ago
Can I ask why they're trying to dox you? I have literally never inspired this kind of passion on the internet--and I'm usually pretty blunt. I'm genuinely curious what it takes.
- jfengel 2y ago
  Attacks like that tend to have little to do with bluntness. They occur when you've touched something they consider to be theirs, and you are not entitled to. Usually that's some matter of group identity, where they feel the need to show off for each other just how angry they are at you. It has less to do with what you say or how you say it, but with who you are.
  - arresin 2y ago
    It sounds like it takes a lot of effort by intelligent people. Why would someone go to effort like that unless it was for something they believed was really important (I can't accept that it's just to show off your cronies / jelousy).
    - jfengel 2y ago
      In the end, what's more important than your own ego? They love feeling powerful and strong. They love feeling like part of the group.
hackernewds 2y ago
Isn't the point of IA to retain information? How can you, without hypocrisy, love IA if you don't agree with it happening to you, that you benefit from happening to others. There's a conflict here. Sucks to hear you are getting doxxed still
- bryant 2y ago
  It's an uncommon opinion for someone to be in favor of IA to retain all information, and it's also not their stated purpose. It's a perfectly reasonable opinion to wish for retention of old sources of knowledge without retaining pages containing personal information of non-public people, or sensitive non-newsworthy information about anyone at all.
boomboomsubban 2y ago
Pretty sure you own the copyright of your social media postings, so DMCA claim them.
- echelon 2y ago
  That's why I'm told ezboard as a whole was removed from the index (sadly). You probably can do this, OP.
johnsonIV 2y ago
Here in Australia we've had so many large data leaks I just assume all my PII is accessible to anyone motivated to find it. I'd guess folks from many other countries are in the same boat. Not downplaying or excusing; just adding context that IA aren't the only ones and it's difficult to prevent (since the cause can be well outside of the individual's control).

cortesoft 2y ago

Once you have been doxed, isn’t the cat kinda out of the bag at that point? Creeps already have the snapshots now, deleting them from IA is just closing the barn door after the livestock has already escaped.

ocdtrekkie 2y ago
Bear in mind that is the doxxing and doxxers that have happened now. There are plenty of future opportunities to be doxxed and plenty of other potential victims. Not that I'd cheer for the loss of IA, but it'd probably be nice if they took down PII on request.
hackernewds 2y ago
Still worth deleting future instances. What's your point?

arresin 2y ago

Can I ask why they're trying to dox you? I have literally never inspired this kind of passion on the internet--and I'm usually pretty blunt. I'm genuinely curious what it takes.

jfengel 2y ago
Attacks like that tend to have little to do with bluntness. They occur when you've touched something they consider to be theirs, and you are not entitled to. Usually that's some matter of group identity, where they feel the need to show off for each other just how angry they are at you. It has less to do with what you say or how you say it, but with who you are.
- arresin 2y ago
  It sounds like it takes a lot of effort by intelligent people. Why would someone go to effort like that unless it was for something they believed was really important (I can't accept that it's just to show off your cronies / jelousy).
  - jfengel 2y ago
    In the end, what's more important than your own ego? They love feeling powerful and strong. They love feeling like part of the group.

hackernewds 2y ago

Isn't the point of IA to retain information? How can you, without hypocrisy, love IA if you don't agree with it happening to you, that you benefit from happening to others. There's a conflict here. Sucks to hear you are getting doxxed still

bryant 2y ago
It's an uncommon opinion for someone to be in favor of IA to retain all information, and it's also not their stated purpose. It's a perfectly reasonable opinion to wish for retention of old sources of knowledge without retaining pages containing personal information of non-public people, or sensitive non-newsworthy information about anyone at all.

boomboomsubban 2y ago

Pretty sure you own the copyright of your social media postings, so DMCA claim them.

echelon 2y ago
That's why I'm told ezboard as a whole was removed from the index (sadly). You probably can do this, OP.

johnsonIV 2y ago

Here in Australia we've had so many large data leaks I just assume all my PII is accessible to anyone motivated to find it. I'd guess folks from many other countries are in the same boat. Not downplaying or excusing; just adding context that IA aren't the only ones and it's difficult to prevent (since the cause can be well outside of the individual's control).