Why is collecting dox necessarily a bad thing?
To me, it is not so much the act of doing it than the person doing it.
If it were someone that I trusted collecting doxs, perhaps I would not feel so strongly against it. However with users like Quickseller and defcon23 that have been known to use backwards tactics in trying to get their own way in the past, I would not feel comfortable with people like that having my information and freely being able to do things with it.
Perhaps someone else can explain it properly, I feel that I am doing a fairly piss poor job at explaining why I feel the way I do.
Or why does someone not have a right to do that?
Perhaps I worded it incorrectly. I agree that anyone has the right to do that, as in they can. I do not agree that everyone should do that.
Public info is public, unless you're talking SS#s and whatnot.
While the definition of a dox is that it is made up of public information, this is not always the case. If I post a package to someone with my address and they then take that address and give it to others without my permission, that isn't me making my information public however it leads to the same end point.
I wouldn't care if someone had my dox--in fact the people I've done PayPal deals with DO have my real name & address. Why would I care? I'm just curious.
It's a general uneasiness for me in regards to other people holding information that is somewhat personal to me, as I have stated above. It should also be noted that some value their privacy much more than others, and therefore having their dox passed around could be a drop in the ocean to a tsunami depending on who's dox it is.