Doxing Flashcards
What is doxing?
Releasing information without permission. With intent to humiliate, threaten, intimidate, or punish
What is Deanonymizing Doxing?
Personal information released of someone formerly anonymous
NAACP vs Alabama
Right to anonymity
What is targeting?
Discloses personal information reveals specific details of an individual’s circumstances that are usually private, obscure, or obfuscated
What is Deligitimizing Doxing?
reveals intimate personal information that damages the credibility of that individual
Increasing risk of potential harm
Andrew Anglin
Founder of the nationalist website The Daily Stormer
Want to dox him
Forfeiture defintion
The Forfeiture Thesis (FT): If P violates Q’s moral right to X, then P forfeits P’s own moral right to X (or some equivalent right or set of moral rights).
If there’s an expectation to treat someone else with respect (ex. not saying racist or sexist things), then you are released from the obligation of treating them with respect / morally
Enough to say that a moral right has been violated
What is an example of forfeiture?
If the person throws the first punch, then you can punch them back
What are the objections to doxing?
Negative implications of doxing-
Possibility of mistakes (ie mistaken identities)
Opens the door for harassment
