I think a deeper issue is that a lot of nerds (term that I use here broadly to define people who grew up using usenet, BBS'es, wrote/contributed to the open sou

I think a deeper issue is that a lot of nerds (term that I use here broadly to define people who grew up using usenet, BBS'es, wrote/contributed to the open source tools that power most of the internet, etc.) have a strong sense of ownership when it comes to the internet, and feel strongly about respecting netiquette (which includes not doxing people unless there's a crime underneath with extremely strong evidence, like for example when that teenager posted a video of himself torturing a cat on YouTube). It's pretty telling that acts like that are typically frowned upon even by websites where morals don't fly very high (e.g. 4chan). Sadly, a lot of people who are foreign to that internet culture (like the Megan McGrath who penned the Newsweek article) aren't aware of these implied rules, or, if they are, they just don't care about it.