There are two definitions of doxing (alt. doxxing):

a. Form of harassment in which personal information is used to intimidate, threaten, or distress others.

b. Searching / archiving public information and reposting it.

The Kiwi Farms has always had rules against contacting people. We've always had rules against threatening or extorting people. We've always had rules against encouraging other people to do those things ("someone should...").

In the last year especially, the word doxing has become popularly realigned from the second definition (which originated online in the 2000s) to the first (which was popularized by journos).

The law has extended harassment definitions in many jurisdictions to include online harassment which utilizes personal information. This is in the same way "cyberbullying" is a crime, but "cyberbullying" does not mean any form of online critique: it specifically refers to students in highschool or college harassing their peers online in such a way to intimidate them from going to school. Doxing has become criminalized, but as an extension of already criminal behavior under the first definition, usually applied to people who already know each other in real life.

The fact that this subculture invented the term and abides within the law is irrelevant to what the average person now thinks of when they hear "doxing". That we are 'in the right' does not matter. The use of a word, which now describes a crime, to describe things which are not criminal, is detrimental to our interests and long-term prospects.

In 2025 I need the community at large to stop using the word "doxing" to describe legal information gathering and switch to anything else. The following terms have been suggested, including both verbs which describe the act of looking something up, and the noun which describes a compilation of this information.

Phonebooking.

Unmasking. *

Deanonymize / Deanon

Infodump / Infodumping

Sunshining.

Exposing.

Receipts.

Deets. * per shawnphase

I'm not going to force any specific transfer, so you can pick whichever term you'd like and feels works best. Language is malleable and getting people to change at all is going to be hard enough.

• This is the word LFJ uses to literally dox people and harass their employers.

@Aevann please hard filter "doxing" and "doxxing" to "sunshining" and "sunshinning" even if people have filters disabled

BREAKING: Tesla now provides a discount of up to 10% on Tesla Insurance for customers who frequently use FSD (Supervised)

"The more you drive with FSD (Supervised) enabled, the bigger the discount is on your insurance premium." This new policy is currently only for Tesla… pic.twitter.com/Fjh0GT2fCB

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) February 2, 2025

This totally won't backfire lol

https://www.tesla.com/support/insurance/fsd-discount#available

Related discussion:

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/tesla-insurance-now-offering-10-discount-for-owners-who-use-fsd-for-50-or-more-of-driving-miles.35591/

Starting now, the more you use FSD the less you’ll pay for Tesla Insurance.

Essentially Tesla is covering part of the cost of insurance when you use FSD https://t.co/Q7QT07PZkf

— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) February 2, 2025

!crossword

LA Times, Sunday, Feb 2, 2025 - "Silent Partners"

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947069-fect

SOLVED

NY Times, Sunday, Feb 2, 2025 - "Two-for-One Special"

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947074-vesk

SOLVED

LA Times, Saturday, Feb 1, 2025

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947079-jank

SOLVED

NY Times, Saturday, Feb 1, 2025

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947081-sphob

SOLVED

The Crossword: Monday, Jan 27, 2025 (New Yorker, thought I would try this. Mondays are the hardest puzzles in the New Yorker)

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947101-troff

SOLVED

Daily Cryptic Crossword (2025-02-02) (this is British but also pretty easy cryptics)

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947077-treb

SOLVED (BARELY)

MORE NEW YORKER CROSSWORDS AFTER

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947660-plash

SOLVED

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947719-sunt

SOLVED

THANKS FOR PLAYING

Didnt watch anything new this week either. Last season was kinda whack, not much I wanna see, and the stuff I wanted to see turned out mid. Hope this season will be better.

!anime

@Kongvann pin pls

breathtakingly prehistoric physiognomy. an forgotten hominid ancestor terrified of fire.

it’s a crime this fine specimen is in a suit. he should be adorned in handsome pelts of cheetah, mammoth, boar… https://t.co/LKPbyJDn5m

— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) February 10, 2025

https://old.reddit.com/r/WorkersStrikeBack/comments/1iik2vu/i_just_saw_an_entire_family_taken_by_ice/mb7q1q7/?context=8

they are literally the beyond parody borders are immoral people who want to drive down their own wages "uniting" with 6 billion 3rd worlders

can u believe the nerve of this gold digger pic.twitter.com/4DbLlay2GE

— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) February 16, 2025

You're a good writer - with a bit of editing you could get some work published (not an attack, I'm a writer and editor myself). I've also done a fair amount of research and had some journ*lism published around the topic of johns and the type of people they tend to be, albeit in a different country to you - I agree with you, it really is horrifying

Nice write-up, I like your writing style. The first third of your post almost sounded like a Pavement song lmao.

I've never really understood the "female empowerment" angle of strip clubs (not exactly a unique thought on this sub). Even if women feel empowered doing it, their customers obviously see it through an objectifying and purely sexual lens. And, obviously, strip club owners operate like large-scale pimps, with the same exploitive relationship and habits with their dancers that pimps have with their prostitutes.

...do RS girlies have no taste whatsoever and equate length with quality? Like if it's banging painfully into the metaphorical cervix of your brain, that must be a darn hot post?

https://old.reddit.com/r/videogames/comments/1ic7h2h/hmmmmm_morgan/

Vg journ*list loe

https://old.reddit.com/r/ConcordGame/comments/1ic6wfn/question_for_the_concord_defenders/

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/1idpnnn/my_first_ps5_cant_wait_to_play_these/

https://old.reddit.com/r/saltierthankrayt/comments/1ibanwp/finally_found_the_real_game_awards_list_and_here/

WELL WELL WELL

Not a great way to start 2025 with the death and destruction and all but it's good to know I'll be right about everything all the time in every way for yet another year

!friendsofcarp !friendsofkong !friendsofcinnamoroll !rightchads !neverwronggang !howdoeshedoit !howdidheknow !howdoyoudoitcarp !everyone

A foreign billionaire has seized the United States government.

— DCCC (@dccc) February 3, 2025

Is he a foreigner from Canada? Or Africa?

Bonus video here's Elon with his McLaren F1 and his ex wife of his child

🤔 pic.twitter.com/1nEUHaY9Rz

— Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) January 23, 2025

1. "Asked a girl to prom and she laughed at me"

2. "a guy once offered to give me $10 not to kiss me..."

3. "I was bullied by girls so much as a child, my self-confidence is ruined..."

4. "chick I dated said I imagined us together... but as a joke"

5. black guy gives a short history of his time as a kid "are you neurodivergent?"

6. "just hit the gym they said... just become successful they said..."

7. "invited girl to movie, she didn't turn up, saw post online with her and her ex-boyfriend, the next day her front tire blew on the highway... had nothing to do with me..."

8. "when I was 15, I got laughed at for asking for help against me girlfriend who was abusing me"

9. "a teacher I had a crush on called me an r-slur"

10. "you guys probably stunk..." "nothing compared to your unwashed micro peen" "weak non sequitur"

balancing like 3 books right now. finished a muriel spark in the middle of the night last night while eating salami out of the fridge.

I'm not even kidding, this was my appeal. pic.twitter.com/l3LXX90fsS

— Josh (@XJosh) January 2, 2025