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In reply to the discussion: the white woman who called the police on a napping black girl at yale has been doxxed [View all]NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)It's getting hard to drop off the grid is you want to. I've helped family friends escape abusive spouses/boyfriends and it's hard to hide their location with the endless array of systems everywhere seeking to collect info. One abuser asked the front desk of a grocery store to replace a store card his girlfriend "lost". They happily confirmed the address with him, causing her even more terror now that he had found her location.
And of course our treatment of this issue is very situational:
About 6 years ago I remember an incident that demonstrated this situational approval (or blatant hypocrisy) of doxing. A newspaper in New York published a google map of everyone who had a pistol permit in two counties. The map resulted in exposing department of corrections employees addresses as well as dozens of women who were escaping domestic abusers. Here on DU many people reacted to this doxing with delight. When one of those doxed responded by doxing the staff of the newspaper in retaliation, those same people were angry. But the actions were the same.