Is doxxing illegal or is on considered free speech? I know we are on a website where this shit happens alot but I always wonder about this. Do you think there is a time when doxxing is ok and a time when doxxing isnt ok?
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public information is free to the public
if someone willingly gives out their address, name, and have their phone number available in a public registry (available to non-government citizens) it's open season iirc
if it's not, like if it's CC info, social security numbers, or other shit that's highly illegal and is probably some form of identity theft
that makes me wonder though, is government info available through stuff like the freedom of information act usable?
if someone willingly gives out their address, name, and have their phone number available in a public registry (available to non-government citizens) it's open season iirc
if it's not, like if it's CC info, social security numbers, or other shit that's highly illegal and is probably some form of identity theft
that makes me wonder though, is government info available through stuff like the freedom of information act usable?
The ethics of doxxing. Personally if the doxxing would bring serious bodily/property harm I'd avoid it, unless the person is a kiddie diddler then it's Thunderdome time.
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People dox themselves all the time on social media. All you do is research them with the information they give!
Fair enough,
spelling doxing with two xs should be illegal
It depends on the country and cases
In US I guess it's legal anytime, but KF generally has a no-no with doxing minors, which makes sense, kids are dumb
In UK all the rules on internet stuff are a giant mess, you can get in prison for doing a gas the jews joke, so doxing is illegal
In Italy it's not illegal unless you dox a relative of/a person under protection from Mafia
If you dox info and use it to make a slander campaign against an innocent person you can get in very big trouble (recently a guy got doxed and accused of being a pedo with a shared fake facebook campaign, ruined his life), but this is not how it really works in KF so whatev
In US I guess it's legal anytime, but KF generally has a no-no with doxing minors, which makes sense, kids are dumb
In UK all the rules on internet stuff are a giant mess, you can get in prison for doing a gas the jews joke, so doxing is illegal
In Italy it's not illegal unless you dox a relative of/a person under protection from Mafia
If you dox info and use it to make a slander campaign against an innocent person you can get in very big trouble (recently a guy got doxed and accused of being a pedo with a shared fake facebook campaign, ruined his life), but this is not how it really works in KF so whatev
It's ok to dox communists but not others. All communists are paedophiles so you don't have to worry about any messy exceptions.
Well, the UK doesn't think so.
But let's be honest here, if doxing were illegal, most of the notorious lolcows out there would still be at it for a lot longer than they have *coughnickbatecough*.
But let's be honest here, if doxing were illegal, most of the notorious lolcows out there would still be at it for a lot longer than they have *coughnickbatecough*.
Doxxing is fine. Just don't do it on little girls and only pedos and shitty people.
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Is it illegal to repost stuff available on Whitepages? Of course not.
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Honestly I think real full-blown doxing (like someone said, CC info, SS info, more life-ruining shit than a DA full of brony porn or a cringeworthy livejournal) is in a definite moral grey area but as far as I know, it's not truly illegal unless you do some shady shit to get that info.
From what I can tell from the people I've seen doxed here while lurking over the years is that 99% of them do it to themselves.
From what I can tell from the people I've seen doxed here while lurking over the years is that 99% of them do it to themselves.
I've always seen doxing, as in dumping all of someone's info & posting a hate thread about them as a consistently gauche thing to do, & at certain times is necessary, but shouldn't be lauded for the safety of the person dropping the dox, & the general welfare of the community.
It's kind of the same as punching someone in the face. It's pretty generally a bad thing, but sometimes someone just needs to get knocked out for everyone else's emotional well being or to calm people down before a riot breaks out, & the person who does it is very rarely considered a hero anyways.
It's kind of the same as punching someone in the face. It's pretty generally a bad thing, but sometimes someone just needs to get knocked out for everyone else's emotional well being or to calm people down before a riot breaks out, & the person who does it is very rarely considered a hero anyways.
