Interview · moment 5 of 18
Doxxing, Its Origins, and Whether Targets Were Dangerous
from I Am The One Who Dox · #134
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4 minGuest
The guest explains how his group doxxed far-right forum members via cross-referencing usernames, reflects on regretting it now that he sees these people as working-class rather than dangerous, and traces the roots of call-out/cancel culture to centrist liberal one-upmanship.
- 18:09Doxing isn't really a thing because people put their own information online anyway — work, phone number, address — and expose themselves through stupidity on the internet.
- 18:34The goal was to identify people in Nazi online groups and inform their family, friends, and employers about their involvement and proclivities.
- 19:33They tracked targets across public internet platforms like Twitter and Facebook after catching them being careless about anonymity on forums.
- 19:56Tim's guest now disagrees with doxing and thinks it's wrong, though at 19 years old he believed he was doing community work.
- 20:27As a working-class person, the guest has changed his view after working alongside people with extreme ideas who were just trying to feed their kids.
- 21:16A dishwasher he worked with had an SS tattoo from his skinhead punk days in 1980s Washington DC and couldn't afford to get it covered up because of his two kids.
- 21:37The guest no longer believes people deserve to have their lives ruined and be chastised in their community for past beliefs or controversial tattoos.
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