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Clean it up janny
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To be fair I'm not really sure what constitutes doxxing / witch-hunting nowadays, but I'm pretty sure leftoids would consider it doxxing if like pro-Palestine student activsts were being called out with this level of hostility. The naming of these people and discussion of their social media accounts is being done so that people can dig into them further and find ways to harass them and everyone knows this.
What is that leftoid quote again? "When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression"? Something like that, and it probably applies here - having "personal callout" posts on private citizens hit the front page of the site is a bad look.
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I think in most of the world doxxing is legal unless it's done with clear malicious intention, which can pretty much only be proven if you outright state "hey guys my ex's house is here, might want to throw a bomb in there nudge nudge "
But recently normies stopped caring about internet security and forced social media to protect them instead by making doxxing against the rules, this lead a lot of people to believe it's actaully a crime. Which will probably lead to it becoming a crime
Not a lawyer though
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It's not a crime but also that was decided back when police would arrest people for showing up at your house, and you could just shoot them if they got threatening. I think the reaction to doxxing these days is downstream of a breakdown in conduct and trust in authority.
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Yeah i'm guessing they have ways to make certain cases of doxxing illegal, when they want to
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