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> Your freedom ends where my beings. You may be free of saying whatever you want, but if that ends up doxxing information about me that I didn't want to reveal, or it ends up spreading misinformation about me that ends up in death threats, then you are NOT free to do that.

You just described investigative journalism.

Doxxing is not itself a violation of your rights, it’s just taboo when it’s done in the small.

Only when it’s done with the intent of causing illegal harm, such as “X lives here, go kick his ass”, would it be a violation.



I was obviously not talking about rightful investigative journalism. I meant things like EnemiesOfThePeople (former link: https://parler.com/profile/EnemiesOfThePeople), which leaked home addresses, email addresses and phone numbers of any politician who opposed Trump's effort to overturn the election. This has nothing to do with journalism and everything to do with fascist ways of intimidating private citizens.




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