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Topic: Why is non-consensual release of personal information allowed? - page 6. (Read 9711 times)

hero member
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8chan was briefly de-listed from google for not following it.

It doesn't say that in the article. Clearly it says:

Besides, it's even against google's policy to allow such a thing

It doesn't say that either. What you should have linked is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten

Google will remove pages that contain certain personal info like SSN's. They will not take down a dox that is just a persons name, phone number, dob and address. Trust me many people have tried.

Personally I think doxing is a last resort, and that the threat of doxing someone is usually worse than the actual act. Typically if you let the person know that you have their dox that will stop the problem right there and you won't need to post the dox unless the problem continues. I don't think it should be outright "banned", but I certainly do not like that people are doxxing others over small personal matters. Thats totally not cool and not even effective at all. You should try to resolve the situation in other ways before resorting to doxxing.
legendary
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dogiecoin.com
A dox is just an aggregation of publicly available information and as such not a violation of any rights. Theymos said in the past that he is strongly against e.g. the release of social security numbers and will go against that.


Except most of the doxes here include non public information
copper member
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No I dont escrow anymore.
A dox is just an aggregation of publicly available information and as such not a violation of any rights. Theymos said in the past that he is strongly against e.g. the release of social security numbers and will go against that.
legendary
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New Decentralized Nuclear Hobbit
Absolutely no idea. If i was admin, I would be banning anyone who tried to Dox anyone and all scammers I can get my hands on. Grin
legendary
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Christian Antkow
Because these forums don't care about doxxing, unless it's posting Theymos' dox.
sr. member
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To my understanding the forum allows stuff like that to be posted because they believe in free speech, and releasing a user's public info falls under that, as long as the information was legally obtained and is/was publicly accessible.

But in lots of the doxxing cases I'm not so sure that all the information was obtained in legal ways, however I don't think those posts are ever removed either.
hero member
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I never quite understood this. Several posts with DOXing stay up and are never removed. Isn't it hard for mods to see when a user is trying to damage someone's reputation with baseless accusations and when it's actually information to built up a scam accusation case? But even if it's the later, why should a forum indexed by search engines and well ranked in terms of SEO allow that? Is bitcointalk.org encouraging mob justice? Is the forum Satoshi created for discussion about bitcoin to take place in endorsing taking conflicts about an e-currency into real life, perhaps even with violence and life ruining tactics (that could even target the false person)? I'm sure you realize allowing such a thing can be abused by people with very, very bad intentions.

This forum should have a zero tolerance policy against this. Besides, it's even against google's policy to allow such a thing. 8chan was briefly de-listed from google for not following it. If Theymos cares about ad revenue and the future of this forum he should really consider this.
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