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A commercial service is paradoxically (or not) exonerated of their own market-limiting decisions. It's when we're talking about a non-profit that moral issues a
by muyuu 12y ago
A commercial service is paradoxically (or not) exonerated of their own market-limiting decisions. It's when we're talking about a non-profit that moral issues arise for things like discrimination for gender (in this case would be discrimination towards males).
The problems doxxing creates don't distinguish between males and females. Veterans suffer a number of problems that these orgs care about, same for women's shelters (generally speaking) - they provide a service that is functionally different for their target group. Doxxed people are both genders and distinguishing between them is completely artificial and discriminatory in the pejorative sense of the word. The facilities you'd set up against doxxing would work just as well for males but for no reason whatsoever you'd leave them out.
- wpietri 12y agoIf the nonprofit is, as I imagined, targeted at diversity in tech or women in tech, then I am not seeing any moral issues. If some other non-profit would like to provide these hypothetical services to other groups or to everybody in general, that is also awesome. I would encourage that. But as somebody who already donates to various groups like the Ada Initiative and Black Girls Code, I am saying I would give further money to an organization like that for providing an anti-doxxing service to their target audience. The point of my (very short) comment was "take my money!" So that if some maker here was inspired, they'd know to contact me. That's all.