I think that sums it up pretty well. The citizen reporter Wu Gan ("The Butcher") who the author interviewed for the piece put it thusly: "Some innocent people

I think that sums it up pretty well. The citizen reporter Wu Gan ("The Butcher") who the author interviewed for the piece put it thusly: "Some innocent people have been hurt, [and] personal privacy has not been protected, especially when information is incorrect. This kind of thing only happens in deformed countries. Because there's no rule of law or democracy, the Internet becomes citizens' only means of redress," he wrote to me. How closely this bears resemblance to what is called doxing here is up for debate; but certainly there is a difference in political import between doxing and this "human flesh search."