Why doxxing is different
The special nature of doxxing is not that hard a concept to comprehend. But the same people who shriek “Words are violence!” when the subject matter is “mere words,” and who demand “safety” from the expression of thoughts they don’t like, fail to acknowledge that doxxing is qualitatively different. Doxxing informs the reader, “Here’s where this person you hate is located at the moment,” or “Here’s where this person you hate lives,” or “Here’s where this person’s child can be found right now or very soon.”
There is no innocent reason for real-time doxxing. Its purpose is to assist the reader in harming a person or that person’s family or property in the real 3-dimensional world rather that just to hurt that person’s feelings in the virtual world. It’s about physical space in real time or in future time.
And it’s not okay no matter who might be the doxxer or the doxxed, left or right. Therefore social media’s banning of doxxers, especially habitual doxxers, is appropriate.
Exactly.
Excellent post!
There is the additional danger posed by linking doxxing to “swatting,” namely the risk of someone’s being killed when a SWAT team is sent to their home under false pretenses. One infamous example is the 2017 death of a man in Wichita, Kansas, who happened to be living at an address given to the Wichita police by a gamer involved in an online dispute with another gamer: “During an online dispute between Casey Viner and Shane Gaskill, regarding the video game Call of Duty: WWII, Viner threatened to have Gaskill swatted. Gaskill responded by giving him a false address for his residence, one that was occupied by an uninvolved person, Andrew Finch. Viner then asked Tyler Barriss to make the required fraudulent call to initiate the swatting. Wichita Police responded to the address, and as Finch was exiting his house, police officer Justin Rapp fatally shot him.”
The chain of events leading up to the doxxing and swatting is complex because of the number of participants involved, but is outlined here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting
The Tyler Barriss mentioned in the account is precisely the sort of vindictive individual attracted to doxxing. He is presently serving a 20-year sentence in Club Fed.
Yeah, I no longer want to hear how misgendering is murder.
Viner should have gotten what Barriss got. And more than 20 years.
Doxxing is about war using the tools of war like subterfuge to achieve by threat and intimidation that real violence may ultimately achieve.
Likewise, the Big Lie’s of the Ruling Class wielded against their most threatening opponents like Trump, newly Musk.
Yet by Monday, the Pelosi Pack of Partisan Hyenas and Lackey will tell their DOJ Fascist-in-Chief to prosecute Trump for telling the Truth about his enemies and putting pain to delay the Coup d’Etate.
Tom Pain’s Army shall assemble anew. Trump is their only certain champion standing with Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law.
And the oligarch’s Regime of a Banana Republic will roll on with yet another show trial beloved by the Far Left because the ICs running dogs know who threatens their continued fragile legitimacy most.
The latest Presidential preference poll by Harvard-Harris has Trump far ahead at 48%.
I wish stupid doxing games won them stupid prizes. But who will present stupid prizes to this new mob of Federal lawyers chomping at the bit? Much less their coach or cheerleaders?
The only certain thing is that it won’t be the “opposition” party, nor will it be the media, and neither will it be the Educrats, government employees, nor billionaire class.
It really is this simple and the motivation of those doing the doxxing so clear.
one thing I don’t get, and this goes back when patrick grey was doxxed by that crazy anarchist kimberlin’s minions (he was an officer of the law as part of the da’s office,) is the police never call back, to verify there is an incident, this has been true with other examples like tim pool and marjorie taylor greene, they know who’s house this is, or at least some idea,
Hate is a powerful thing.
No one hates with the intensity of liberal Democrats. The greater and more intense their hatred, the better they feel about themselves.
They celebrate it. Embrace it. Even marinate in the joy they get from joining with like-minded haters when they get a chance to demonstrate even greater depths of hatred.
I wish I was wrong. Or hyperbolic. But the evidence is undeniable and overwhelming. It’s evidence that demands a verdict. (to steal a line)
Stan, you are so correct. But you omit mention of the many millions of American dullards who vote Democratic and are also secular materialists. They just go out and vote for Schumers and Warnocks and Newsoms, as a reflex, no thought. The sounds of crashing America surround them, but they cannot hear. Political deafness is congenital and hereditary via dominant, not recessive, genes.
I notice that Musk has outlawed all realtime doxxing, for everyone, not only for him and for his family. I look forward to his cancelling Twitter accounts for leftist radicals who tweet out locations for Supreme Court justices, for instance.
Might a fix be to make doxing a crime? Certainly fixes the cancel or not cancel question. Do it once and off to the clink you go.
If I skipped the SWAT business, and merely gathered a bunch of my friends, put on our tac gear, and showed up at someone’s house whom we did not like, I think we would be arrested or maybe even shot by responding real law enforcement.
Such a twisted world we live in…