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A thread on why doxxing is bad.
Basically, the mob often identifies the wrong people and ruins lives.
Basically, the mob often identifies the wrong people and ruins lives.
“The cyclist was wrongly identified by internet sleuths as marketing executive Peter Weinberg.”
“His home address was shared online.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-52978880
“His home address was shared online.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-52978880
“After being wrongly identified, Quinn received countless threats online, with users calling him a racist and posting his home address and personal information online, according to the Times.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/twitter-doxxing-charlottesville-white-supremacists-wrong-guy-2017-8%3famp
“The internet cheered. The media made house calls ... only one problem: wrong house.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/technology/2012/10/amanda-todd-suicide-did-anonymous-dox-the-wrong-guy.amp
Skai Jackson is being slammed after reports surfaced that she put 'an entire family into poverty' after she allegedly shared details about a 13-year-old boy on Twitter. https://www.google.com/amp/s/meaww.com/amp/disney-star-skai-jackson-doxxed-teen-twitter-racism-fan-reactions-outrage
“In less than 24-hours, Sunil's name spread all over the Internet as the face of one of the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects.”
“But he wasn't guilty. As his family would soon learn, he was dead.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/reddit-falsely-accuses-sunil-tripathi-of-boston-bombing-2013-7%3famp
“But he wasn't guilty. As his family would soon learn, he was dead.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/reddit-falsely-accuses-sunil-tripathi-of-boston-bombing-2013-7%3famp
“The user acted unilaterally, releasing the name of an unrelated officer on the assumption that releasing the wrong name would eventually result in Ferguson's Police Department releasing the correct one.” https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/anonymous-distances-itself-member-who-doxed-wrong-cop
“The Ferguson PD actually tweeted at us saying that this is not the officer responsible for the murder,” Pharaoh said in a lengthy chat via IRC, Anonymous’s preferred communication platform. “But they could be lying.”
Reader, they weren’t lying. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/14/hackers-have-the-names-and-social-security-numbers-of-ferguson-police-but-should-they-share-them/%3foutputType=amp
Reader, they weren’t lying. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/14/hackers-have-the-names-and-social-security-numbers-of-ferguson-police-but-should-they-share-them/%3foutputType=amp
“I broke when I realized that Anglin was also urging people to direct these attacks on my kids, my son. They made an image with photographs of me and my 12-year-old son on the entrance gate to the Auschwitz concentration camp.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/20/tanya-gersh-daily-stormer-richard-spencer-whitefish-montana
“The man initially named as the attacker who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a police officer outside Parliament is in fact still in prison for an unrelated matter.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/abu-izzadeen-not-london-attacker-brother-mistaken-alive-still-prison-a7644626.html%3famp
“One amateur detective who’s been posting about the case on Facebook is Raquel Esquivel. She said she was motivated by a lack of arrests. After 3 days of working on it, she became convinced she’d identified one of the people.”
She was wrong. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sbsun.com/2017/08/28/online-sleuths-point-finger-at-wrong-person-in-fatal-riverside-attack-police-say/amp/
She was wrong. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sbsun.com/2017/08/28/online-sleuths-point-finger-at-wrong-person-in-fatal-riverside-attack-police-say/amp/
“This is foolproof until someone uses the formula to frame someone who didn't actually say anything racist ... this turned out to in fact not be Brianna Rivera at all, but her ex-boyfriend, who changed his Facebook profile to resemble hers.” https://gawker.com/psycho-frames-ex-with-fake-racist-facebook-posts-1665418226
“...this Ryan Lanza was alive, and he was telling the Internet it had the wrong guy — everything may have seemed right, but everyone was so very wrong. ‘It wasn't me,’ Ryan Lanza said.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/320458/
More info on previous tweet:
“‘Talking with the police. I forgive everyone who spread those horrible rumours about me,’ he wrote yesterday ‘I’m not a terrorist but I’m a ting tong actor.’” https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/english-tutor-sunny-burns-proves-innocence-after-being-tipped-bombing-suspect/
“‘Talking with the police. I forgive everyone who spread those horrible rumours about me,’ he wrote yesterday ‘I’m not a terrorist but I’m a ting tong actor.’” https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/english-tutor-sunny-burns-proves-innocence-after-being-tipped-bombing-suspect/
“Her name, photographs and personal details were revealed on social media, prompting a string of racist and xenophobic comments against her. The doxxers had targeted an innocent party who was not involved in the incident at Shunfu Mart on Sunday.” https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/doxxers-wrongly-identify-tech-ceo-as-sovereign-woman
“He posted the personal details of a 41-year-old woman on Facebook and followed up with another post urging others to ‘give her hell.’
“But the woman, who was the owner of the car, was not the driver at the time of the incident.” https://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/animal-rights-activist-harasses-wrong-person-hitting-dog-car
“But the woman, who was the owner of the car, was not the driver at the time of the incident.” https://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/animal-rights-activist-harasses-wrong-person-hitting-dog-car
“Sabrina and Deddy might have picked on the wrong kid since he allegedly did not send the DMs himself, but his friend did.” https://coconuts.co/jakarta/lifestyle/fitness-influencer-sabrina-chairunnisa-fiance-deddy-corbuzier-dox-wrong-person-alleged-online-harassment/
"I hear, 'Someone is going to rape, torture & murder the women and children in your family," Hailey read from a comment.
"I just want everyone to back off. The truth is out. It had nothing to do with us, nothing to do with my uncle at all," said Hailey. https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7chicago.com/amp/hailey-cantrell-jazmine-barnes-robert-shooting/5034081
"I just want everyone to back off. The truth is out. It had nothing to do with us, nothing to do with my uncle at all," said Hailey. https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7chicago.com/amp/hailey-cantrell-jazmine-barnes-robert-shooting/5034081
“In the midst of this chaos however, it appears that online sleuths have also turned up photos and details of another Ramesh, who also happens to be employed with JP Morgan.” https://mothership.sg/2019/10/wrong-whampoa-ramesh-doxxed/
“But Wilkins wasn't at the protest. Victoria says that on the day of the protest, she and Charlie were at a pumpkin patch and that, as a couple in their 40s, voting is the extent of their political activism.” https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/10/18/professional-portland-skateboarder-receiving-death-threats-after-the-internet-falsely-identifies-him-as-antifa-protester-harassing-a-widow/
Dorian Nakamoto, a computer expert, had never heard of Bitcoin until his son mentioned it 3 weeks prior. He said many of the details in the story are correct, but that the main assertion is false. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/dorian-satoshi-nakamoto-i-didnt-invent-bitcoin/
“Donald Trump Jr. and conservative actor James Woods even identified the woman as Portia Boulger. But Boulger is now suing Woods for defamation, asking for $3 million in damages, because it’s definitely not her.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/gizmodo.com/james-woods-sued-for-misidentifying-trump-supporter-giv-1793327162/amp
Thread on doxxing Geary Danley, a man who was not involved in the Vegas shooting. https://twitter.com/broderick/status/914801273584709632
So, spare me of any argument on why your doxxing is justified.
Doxxing is wrong.
The stories about people who have been misidentified barely make the news, but it ruins lives and makes people fear for the safety.
What’s sad is that none of you even care.
Doxxing is wrong.
The stories about people who have been misidentified barely make the news, but it ruins lives and makes people fear for the safety.
What’s sad is that none of you even care.
Feel free to continue attacking me though. Watching the lies evolve has been somewhat entertaining. 
