Yup

“on discord and twitter”

Which is increasingly unlikely.

As I said multiple times - doxxing can use public databases and social media to gather that information. Read the wikipedia definition, it is right there.

Imagine a vtuber posting a photo on their private facebook. Then their neighbors grabbing that photo, knowing they are said vtuber, going to the fandom, linking the photo as “this is the vtuber, they live at XYZ”. Would you still go “oh that’s not doxxing, they posted their faces on the internet that one time!”? Of course you wouldn’t.

Agree, fuck em. But doxxing because of their political views is not okay

Read up on the wikipedia definition of doxxing. It states plainly - it can be done from public databases or from social media, and that the goal is often to shame someone. This fits 100%. Otherwise you could argue that “it’s not doxxing, I just went through this guys comments and he slipped up and said that he lives in X city, then posted a photo that let me triangulate his exact location in the city from landmarks”. It is doxxing and a criminal act.

No, they didn’t give consent to have their names and faces shown publicly to people like you who would shame them for the crime of having a kid that grew up and commited murder.

Definition from oxford languages, search for and publish private or IDENTIFYING information about an individual, typically with malicious intent.

You are literally arguing semantics on something that is obviously doxxing because you don’t like the fact that someone got doxxed that you don’t like. For every definition that doesn’t specifically say “identifiable” information, there are three that do. But by all means, you go out and find the ones that let you sleep at night. I’m done with having a “world battle” over something that’s despicable behavior.

Yup, so just proving further that law doesn’t apply to people you don’t like.

Historically, the term has been used to refer to both the aggregation of this information from public databases and social media websites (like Facebook), and the publication of previously private information obtained through criminal or otherwise fraudulent means

Literal quote from the wikipedia article I linked. It. Is. Doxxing.

It is, and I have described why in two posts down this chain already with provided definitions.

If you look at the account you replied to, it is made two weeks ago with the sole intention of swearing at people who disagree with them. They will not take your advice.

My definition of doxxing comes from wikipedia and is supported. People here think their opinion of what doxxing is, is real, despite no proof or actual definition. I already went through the definition and shown that this is indeed doxxing. Want to read it, here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing

And yes, this post contains private information. It contains the information of “these are this guys parents” which would only be known to the select few neighbors at best. Furthermore, it contains information about their political beliefs. So yes, it absolutely is doxxing with the intention of shaming the parents. The info doesn’t need to be completely private and hidden - aggregating info from public databases or facebook counts as well.

You don’t commit crimes against people because “they support maga”. Otherwise what you are doing is legitimizing them committing crimes against you, because you aren’t maga. Let the courts handle this, not public opinion, and defo not public opinion aimed at the parents of the perp.

You do realize that “doxxing” uses “free and open” information too, right?

Ah yes so the best way to handle that is to doxx parents of a murderer because they are MAGA. That will show the government!

All you are doing is stooping down to their level and using their tactics against people who didn’t have anything to do with the situation other than the fact of “they had a kid”.

Off of wikipedia - it is an act of publically providing personally identifiable information about an individual without their consent

1. There is their face - personally identifiable
2. There is “these are the parents of a murderer” which is the additional information.

And if you read up on the article you will know that “aggregation from public databases and social media” counts too.

It may be carried out for reasons such as online shaming (…)

So yeah, this is 100% doxxing, so save me your “oh you don’t know what it means” spiel.

It is doxxing when you grab a photo and then add information to it saying “these are the parents of the person you hate, go hate them too” and spread it to hundreds of people. And the only reason you don’t see it is because you don’t like the political party they support.

Okay, so?

Does that mean they shouldn’t have protective orders out? What should they be doing, forcefully trying to insert themselves into a situation where they are in danger and the kid has shown multiple times he isn’t interested / is actually threatening?

This to me makes it even more fucked up that their faces are being shown like this online.

You are putting their faces in the public to hundreds / thousands of people, telling them “go hate these people”. Yes, it is doxxing. This will lead to crazies harassing them. You can also reverse image search them to directly find them.