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The tyranny of the majority. Doxing "me" should of course be illegal but for certain groups of "others", it's just fine.
by aeternum 2y ago
The tyranny of the majority. Doxing "me" should of course be illegal but for certain groups of "others", it's just fine.
- ForHackernews 2y agoDon't like it? Fly commercial.
- aeternum 2y agoNeighbor sets up a camera pointing at your driveway that posts to socials whenever you come and go. Don't like it? Don't own a house or car.
- clipsy 2y agoUnfortunately, that's an accurate description of how little privacy the vast majority of us have.
- ForHackernews 2y agoIt's extraordinarily easy to be not-famous. I don't have any sympathy for people who deliberately court wealth and fame and then whine about the minor drawbacks that come along with them.
- bsder 2y agoRules for thee but not for me. Zuck sure likes vacuuming up and aggregating everybody else's information but gets cranky when someone starts doing the same to him.
- BadHumans 2y agoOthers make billions selling every detail about your life. At the very least it's hypocritical.
- eynsham 2y agoDoxxing is when someone aggregates publicly available information, I see.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoActually, yes, it is. Not trying to say anything on the topic of doxxing billionaires vs. doxxing a member of the masses but, as a member of said masses, I understand that my social security number, home address, name, and date of birth, to name a few, are publicly available information. Aggregating that information on some forum is literally what people call doxxing.
- vdqtp3 2y agoI'd argue that doxxing is when that data is linked to lcnPylGDnU4H9OF. It's different when the identity data is compiled but no associated with "identify this person" (whether real world like a video or semi-anonymous virtual identities)
- phil21 2y agoYes, that's pretty much the definition of doxxing. And then publishing it in a public forum for everyone to see. What did you think it was? Anything else would typically be illegal illegal. Pretty much anyone's (in the US at least) information is relatively public. This includes addresses, phone numbers, real estate transactions, criminal records, and far more. Most things people think of as private simply are not. Hence why doxxing is against ToS for most platforms.
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