He wasn’t doxxed, he was charged with a crime.

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    2 months ago

    I’ll never understand how being doxxed became a thing when 20 years ago people would regularly have access to books that held the name, phone number, and address of damn near every person in their area.

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      While people’s information (in the US) is considered public information, doxxing is the act to distribute a specific targets information maliciously with the intent to harass or cause harm to them… their information was public but someone gave it out with that intent to a large group of people who’d otherwise not bother going through the trouble of obtaining the information. Now they have it readily available, it’s and easy target for the victim.

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      2 months ago

      I think the original Terminator movie did a good job illustrating how phone books could still be pretty unreliable

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    2 months ago

    I blew a seal once when I was much younger. At least that’s what the mechanic said had happened!

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    Really needs to be standard practices to define fines and penalties as a percentage of a person’s income the way some places in Europe do. It would probably end up lowering fines a lot for normal people, but rich assholes like this guy might actually start to care when they’re having to pay enough money to actually notice.

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      But that would break the system that keeps the rich free and the poor incarcerated and even more impoverished. The rich suffer enough as it is when they commit a crime, judges consider how much their lawyers and crisis management PR firms bill and deduct that from the final fine. The poor get a free ride on public defenders. Won’t someone think of the rich’s feelings?!?

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      2 months ago

      What’s an ass violin and do they make it in regular sizes??

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    2 months ago

    Perhaps (I am not condoning doxxing) he should have thought about the consequences of his actions a little more. Seems like the comment about paying the fine incensed some people to take it further.

    There’s always someone out there willing to out crazy you or at the very least stoop to a level of immorality that you won’t.