One thing about these stupid 911 calls

[cyclonefence]

by paranoid, racist white people is that when the cops get there, they aren't shooting the people of color. So far, anyway. And that's a good thing.

And while I do understand that the cops must respond to these calls, I thought 911 was restricted to real life-and-death emergencies, that cops would be pulled from regular calls to rush to the 911 caller. Why aren't people who abuse the 911 system punished, and that punishment publicized, to discourage others?

[ProudLib72]

1. It's a $200 fine for phoning 911 while racist

[cyclonefence]

2. that's a good start

Now let's figure out some kind of public humiliation to match the humiliation they've caused others. I say bring back the stocks! And spoiled cabbage to throw at them!

[ProudLib72]

5. Doxed on social media

If more people were on board with this it could do wonders. Remember all the doxing that happened with the white supremacists after Charlottesville? We just need to keep it up.

[cyclonefence]

6. I don't know what "doxed" means

Hell, I barely know what social media is. I'd rather throw rotten vegetables at them.

[Tarc]

7. Shorthand for "document"

as in, find verifiable information online regarding a person's real-life identity, workplace, etc...

[ProudLib72]

8. Yep, "outed" so that everyone knows where they live/work

If I remember correctly, at least two white supremacists were successfully doxed and lost their jobs. It's public humiliation in the web 2.0 era.

[OriginalGeek]

9. doxed derives from documentation

or "docs". Basically the personal information of the target - name, home address, place of work, phone numbers, anything they can come up with to identify and, in some cases, harass a person.

It's all fun and games when it's the bad guys but sometimes the good guys get doxed too. Please note that "good" and "bad" are terms relative to the individual considering doxxing someone.

[cyclonefence]

10. I started to post a response to the first person who explained doxed to me

but decided not to. I was/am a little shocked by this, but I'm not sure it's not my age. When I was active on usenet a million years ago, the very worst sin you could commit was posting real-life information. It was the scummiest of the scummiest things you could do, even if your cause is just. I think pragmatically it's probably a bad idea anyway--like torture, doing this to someone else condones his/her doing it to you.

[OriginalGeek]

11. Yeah that's me too

I remember those days (ran my own BBS with my son on a Commodore64 and 2 phone lines lol. Still have life-long friends made from doing that) and it was always exactly that - the scummiest of the scummiest things you could do.

And it doesn't sit well with me now so I wonder if time has passed me by in some fashion - with facebook and instagram and snapchat and every kid out there putting all their shit online - my granddaughters were just laughing at me and my wife the other day explaining how all their friends always knew where they were because of their snap thingy - maybe people today don't think it's a big deal.

Personally, I think the danger of a doxxer inciting some nutjob to find a doxxee and do physical harm is too great for it to be the proper thing to do.

[Tarc]

12. I was a Usenet junkie many years ago as well

Like most anything, there can be good and nefarious outing. The women at the center of the Gamergate harassment campaign of course did not deserve to have their identity, home address, etc...leaked as it made them the targets of increased harassment and death threats and such.

Those that perpetrated such actions however, do not, in my opinion, deserve to do so from the safe confines of anonymity.

[catsudon]

3. Agree

If fire dept can send you a bill, police dept should start too.

[Corgigal]

4. They can be arrested.

It's pretty rare. We , back in the day, had some middle school kid who would call us from a phone booth near the bus stop. Maybe at the 7-11, called 3 days in a row. 4 th day we were behind the 7-11, caught him and he never did it again. Not arrested.

[tammywammy]

13. In my city 911 is the non-emergency number.

The dispatchers prioritize calls.