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The Rise of Doxxing: How We've Normalised The Invasion of Privacy Online · Mini Scroll

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  Choice to attack. Women's reproductive.
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  the consequences were. Somewhat to be expected.
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  In retaliation, women across the Internet doxed Nick, sharing his
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  woman even going so far. As to show up to his.
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  Has brought forth. New discussions about the
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  complexities. Of this.
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  Practice. Though generally used to harass
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  marginalized groups online, many saw this instance of doxing as
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  different. In the wake of Trump's election,
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  so many human rights are on the line, and defenders argue that
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  doxing Nick was a warning to American men that women are not
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  backing down. Without a fight this.
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  Is an exploration into the ethics and the normalization of
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  doxing. Why users across the?
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  Internet have come to use doxing as a form of protest and how the
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  culture on TikTok in particular has challenged our conventional.
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  View of this practice. Altogether, ultimately leaving
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  us with one question. Is it?
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  Ever OK to dock? Someone from Centennial World.
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  Go. Deep here we try and I think
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  that doxing, the normalization of doxing, is it ever.
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  OK to dock. Someone These are things that
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  important to be considering when we basically all live our lives
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  online and TikTok in particular has changed culture as I just
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  Sweet, thank you. Ever since we've existed in the
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  online world, privacy has been a top concern.
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  From parents warning kids about stranger danger on sites like
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  Omegle to locking down Instagram accounts, keeping details
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  private has always mattered. And though we are now spending
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  more time online than ever before, it seems like the
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  sanctity around privacy has waned.
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  That doesn't mean we don't care about privacy.
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  Gen. Z, for instance, is known for
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  being more restrained online, often posting less on platforms
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  compared to millennials. Where as we get.
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  Used to social media giants tracking our data and gain a
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  deeper understanding of the online world, many of us now see
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  privacy as an illusion and whether that's.
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  Actually true. It's affecting how users treat
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  one another online. Take doxing, for example.
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  Now, if you've been online long enough, you would have
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  definitely heard the term, But if you haven't.
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  Associate Professor. Carmen Lee explains the
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  phenomenon in a journal article, saying quote doxing is a form of
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  digital abuse where someone intentionally sees out and.
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  Shares a target's. Personal information without
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  consent. This type of private information
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  could include anything from their address and full name.
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  To their place of work. The term dates back to the
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  1990s. Hacker culture.
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  Where doxing was shorthand for dropping documents, it began as
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  a tactic. To expose, harass or discredit
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  people. By revealing private details,
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  often to intimidate or pressure them.
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  Used initially to deanonymize online figures, doxing became a
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  tool for harassment and even extort.
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  While this may have started in hacker communities and circles,
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  it has become increasingly common across the digital
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  landscape. Associate Professor Lee offers
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  her explanation as to why in her journal article.
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  Doxing as discursive. Action in a social movement
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  writing quote as society becomes increasingly mediatized 1 does
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  not need to be a hacker to retrieve and share information
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  of another person as soon as someone posts content onto their
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  social media profile, whether it is intended to be shared.
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  Privately or publicly, they are already.
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  Prone to exposing themselves to an unknown audience because of
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  the context collapse of social media, IE the collapse of
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  infinite possible contexts into one with an infinitely ambiguous
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  audience. That being said, doxing really
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  entered the mainstream in 2014 through the Gamergate
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  controversy. Now we covered Gamergate in our.
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  Series Let the Girls. Game earlier this year.
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  Specifically, the episode with game studies experts Dr. Malian
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  Butt and Doctor Lucy. Sparrow, so feel free to check
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  out that episode. To learn more.
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  But for those unfamiliar, Gamergate was essentially a
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  massive harassment campaign in 2014 that targeted women who
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  spoke out against misogyny and gaming.
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  Many prominent women in the industry faced relentless abuse
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  and threats, some so severe that the FBI got involved.
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  It all started when indie game developer Zoe Quinn released a
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  game called Depression Quest. Soon after, an ex-boyfriend of
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  Zoe posted a lengthy invasion. Blog.
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  Accusing her of cheating with several men in the gaming.
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  Industry allegedly to. Boost her career and let it be
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  known. That this post is still
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  available to read. Online, one of those men was
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  allegedly. A writer for Kotaku.
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  A major gaming publication named Nathan.
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  Although both Zoe and Nathan denied the accusations, waves of
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  gamers swarmed Twitter, Reddit, and 4 Chan, claiming this was an
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  quote ethical breach in gaming journalism.
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  While the Gamergaters claimed they were Van regards of ethical
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  games journalism, fighting to expose corruption by any means
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  necessary, their actions were ultimately pure harassment.
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  In a piece for Time from 2017, Zoe reflected on Gamergate, how
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  it changed her life, and what exactly the Gamergaters.
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  Did to her. Quote I had been hacked and
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  someone was in control of my account, broadcasting whatever
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  they felt like to my 17,000 Twitter followers.
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  As well as to all the creeps. Who had been manually lurking me
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  on my. Page she writes the hackers.
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  Weren't just posting calls for me to die or talking about what
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  a. Fat slut I was.
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  They were sharing my personal information, my old address in
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  Canada, cell phone numbers from a few years back, my current
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  cell phone number and my current home address a decade.
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  Later, the effects of. Gamergate linger Many prominent
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  women in gaming are still wary of addressing it openly, and
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  many publications warned that the industry may be facing a
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  Gamergate 2 point O. This time, the focus is on Sweet
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  Baby Inc, a narrative development company.
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  Accused by critics. Of pushing a quote UN quote woke
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  agenda in gaming quote. This time, instead of assembling
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  under the false banner of ethics and journalism, this new
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  campaign has chosen woke, ISM and sweet.
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  Baby as the focus of their grievances, writes Ash Parish
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  for The Verge. The result?
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  Has been a wave of bigoted harassment targeting
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  marginalized developers, journalists and gamers, with
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  doxing becoming increasingly mainstream during Gamergate.
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  It isn't. Exactly surprising that.
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  This practice would really. Blow up among gamers and
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  streamers, particularly those on Twitch.
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  Recently, Twitch has. Seen a rise in cases where
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  streamers are doxed and then swatted.
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  A double hit of. Harassment as we've.
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  Established doxing reveals. Private info like home addresses
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  while swatting. Takes it further, trolls.
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  Use that information to call in fake emergencies, sending police
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  to a streamer's home while they are on live stream.
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  Aside from leaving its victims shaken, doxing and swatting can
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  affect streamers in more than one recorded live streams of
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  police swattings show how traumatic and dangerous the
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  experience can be. Squads of armed.
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  Police officers are recorded. Busting into rooms, pointing
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  their weapons at streamers. While the creator is obviously
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  caught off guard. The stream is usually.
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  Stopped, followed by a tweet. From the streamer telling their
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  fans that everything is OK and that the police had responded to
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  a prank call. However, not every swatting
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  prank has ended harmlessly. As was the case.
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  When an innocent man was. Tragically shot by police.
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  Responding to a prank call after an argument between gamers
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  playing Call of Duty. World War 2.
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  In 2017, being harassed in such an extreme way, swatting
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  presents a real danger to streamers personal safety, not
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  to mention the. Psychological Impacts.
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  For instance, many streamers have said they no longer feel
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  safe in their own homes, knowing that their addresses have been
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  leaked. This has forced many streamers
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  to relocate themselves and their families, no doubt creating a
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  financial burden, and some streamers have been forced to
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  find work outside of full time streaming altogether.
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  In June 2021, top streamer XQC revealed he had been forced to
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  move back to his native Canada. After his address.
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  Had been leaked and he was being swatted by police almost daily
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  quote almost every day the police come to our.
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  House with the full. Squad and I was genuinely scared
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  that I was going to. Die, he shared.
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  On a live stream, former streamer and drag queen.
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  Jupiter, Velvet left. Full time streaming after being
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  swatted in September 2021 and told NBC she was left with no
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  choice but to find other work. To subsidize her lost.
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  Income Jupiter's experience is reminiscent of other streamers.
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  Associated with the LGBTQIA. Plus community, with many
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  members being frequent targets of doxing and swatting.
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  Drag Queens in particular, have borne the brunt of these cyber.
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  Attacks. Through 2021 and 2022, for
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  instance, six members of the drag queen streaming collective
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  Stream Queens were swatted alongside queer people.
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  Women are. Also at a greater.
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  Risk of doxing In a journal article written by Assistant
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  professor Stein Eckert and PhD candidate Jade Metzger Rifkin,
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  the academics share that quote. Women are more.
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  Likely to receive. Greater amounts of unwanted,
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  vitriolic and sexualized messages to be the.
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  Targets of. Cyber mobbing or brigading
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  revenge porn nude leaked messages and receive unwanted
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  sexualized items. This is especially concerning
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  because doxing often happens alongside other forms of online
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  harassment. With doxing and swatting
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  affecting countless streamers, it's become a significant.
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  Issue for Twitch. Amid mass employee redundancies
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  and creator boycotts, it's one of the major challenges the
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  platform faces, but probably the most directly threatening to
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  creator safety. As a result.
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  The platform has made a concerted effort to restrict
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  doxing. For instance, it is obvious in
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  Twitch's Community Guidelines that doxing and swatting are
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  prohibited on the platform. As the Community Guidelines read
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  quote, violence including doxing and swatting on Twitch is taken
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  seriously and is considered a 0 tolerance violation, and all
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  accounts associated with such activities on Twitch will be
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  indefinitely suspended. Beyond this, the platform has
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  even restricted sharing information that is.
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  Available via the public record last.
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  Year, according to Tube. Filter Twitch added a clause
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  that allows the. Platform to take action against
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  people it discovers. Have doxed or swatted.
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  Someone in real life or on another part of the Internet.
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  While Twitch has. Taken action in its community
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  guidelines, the platform hasn't really managed to stop streamers
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  from being doxed. Regulation has been difficult,
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  reaffirming how hard it is to control this type of online
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  harassment and prevent breaches of privacy online.
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  With this being the case, doxing is unfortunately becoming
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  common. Across other platforms.
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  One of the most recent examples of a creator getting doxed and
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  going extremely. Viral for it actually.
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  Went down on Instagram and X it all started in.
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  October of last year. When Sniper Wolf, whose real
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  name is Leah Shalish, seemingly doxed YouTube Jack's films for
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  contacts, Leah has become known for her reaction style videos on
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  the platform Jack had been. Critical of Leah's.
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  Reaction based content for months.
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  He made videos. Alleging she steals content
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  fails. To credit creators by.
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  Blocking their usernames and even went on to create a second
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  YouTube channel mocking Leah's content.
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  Things came to a head when Jack claims that Leah doxed him.
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  He shared a screenshot from her Instagram story.
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  Where she asked her followers if she should visit.
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  Jack mentioning saying that he lived just a few minutes from
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  her shoot location. Sniper Wolf just docks me on IG.
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  Creepy. Gross.
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  Violating, Jack wrote on X. What you do is.
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  Disgusting. You steal content and.
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  Stalk Youtubers. Leah also shared a video.
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  On her Instagram story. Outside Jack's.
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  Home. She later defended her behavior,
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  suggesting it was justified since Jack had consistently
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  posted about her on his YouTube channels characterizing.
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  It as obsessive behavior. Quote accusing me of doxing is
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  defamation. I've no idea how to.
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  Dox, Leah. Later wrote on her Instagram
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  story. He literally posted.
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  His address on Google and said I threatened him and.
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  Doxed him after countless calls to the platform.
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  Leah YouTube temporarily demonetized her content, meaning
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  the creator couldn't make money from videos uploaded.
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  To the Sniper wolf. Channel According to reporting
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  at the time, Leah's main channel appeared to be demonetized.
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  But her other? Channels remained unaffective.
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  As a result. YouTube's attempt to address the
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  situation were not well. Received.
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  By many. Users they took.
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  Issue with YouTube statement questioning why the platform
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  only temporarily demonetized Sniper Wolf while attributing
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  blame to both Leah and Jack for the situation.
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  These users believe that. Influencers like Leah receive
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  special treatment and favoritism because they bring significant
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  audiences to the platform, something that is seemingly
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  consistent across the social media landscape.
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  Another notable example is when. Trisha Paytas was doxed on her
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  snark Reddit R slash Trishy. Land established in October
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  2021. The Trishi Land subreddit
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  started after Trisha's falling. Out with fellow creator.
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  Ethan Klein As I'm sure we all remember, Trisha and Ethan Co
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  hosted the frenemies. Podcast together before Trish
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  left the. Show in mid 2021 over an.
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  Alleged wage dispute while the subreddit started.
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  As most in our communities. Do with users posting?
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  News and speculation about Trisha and of course, the
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  occasional sarcastic joke and meme.
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  Trishi Land quickly descended into one of the.
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  Most abusive subreddit. On the platform throughout 2022,
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  Trishy Land engaged in vicious attacks against the creator,
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  which only got. Worse after she.
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  Got married and welcomed her first baby.
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  In a YouTube video discussing the subreddit and how it
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  ultimately was banned, Trisha reflected on some of the harmful
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  actions of the community. She said the community posted
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  incredibly personal information about herself and husband Moses
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  Hackman, including which hospital she was planning to
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  give birth at, her doctor's information, details about her
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  family members and payment records.
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  On her property taxes, Tricia. Also revealed that when she was
• 18:31
  undergoing fertility treatments, members of the subreddit called
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  clinics around her area telling the facilities not to take
• 18:39
  Tricia and Moses as patients. Now, Tricia.
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  Wasn't. The first nor the.
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  Last. Person to be doxxed on Reddit.
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  Another infamous example happened way back in 2014 during
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  what would become known as the Fappening.
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  We did touch on this event during our Reddit deep dive.
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  Earlier this year. But it was essentially when
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  Reddit users began and posting naked photos stolen from Apple
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  iCloud accounts. It was even believed that some
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  of these pictures may have constituted child pornography.
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  Although these pictures. Originally appeared on 4 Chan, a
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  subreddit. Called R slash the.
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  Fappening became the primary hub for sharing them.
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  Though the Fappening was not doxing in and of itself, some
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  users did go on to. Docs those associated with the
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  leak. Now.
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  With all of these. Examples in mind.
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  This leaves us with the. Question that I posed in the
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  intro is doxing sometimes warranted?
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  There is no denying that doxing is extremely dangerous,
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  invasive, and in some instances, illegal.
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  But many social media users can't help but wonder.
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  If it's acceptable, especially. When the person who is being
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  doxed did something wrong in the. 1st place of course.
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  No one really deserves to have their privacy.
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  Invaded or stripped, especially in a space as.
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  Volatile as social media When information is shared on
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  platforms like TikTok and Reddit, we have little control.
• 19:56
  Over who sees it? And how quickly it might spread
• 19:59
  with that context. Even if a.
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  Doctor doesn't intend for millions of people to see
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  someone's home address or their workplace.
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  It can easily happen, but when it comes to problematic people
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  and comments like the Nick Fuentes situation I mentioned in
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  the intro, some users can't help but think that.
• 20:16
  This tit for tat. Strategy isn't all bad.
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  Users across TikTok have already.
• 20:21
  Started poking fun at Nick's commentary.
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  After his address. Was leaked writing your.
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  House, our choice. In the comments, it's clear that
• 20:30
  many women view his Daxing as deserved, seeing it as a form of
• 20:34
  revenge for the celebration of efforts to control women's
• 20:36
  bodies in the United States. In fact, one TikTok.
• 20:40
  User wrote quote after. Going viral?
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  With the phrase your. Body My choice, Nick Fuentes
• 20:44
  found himself on the receiving end of the internet's Play
• 20:47
  stupid games, win stupid prizes, effect women dug.
• 20:51
  Up and shared his. Personal information on Twitter
• 20:53
  delivering a clear message. Your house, our choice.
• 20:57
  In a brilliant display of. Digital detective work they.
• 20:59
  Turn to the tables showing exactly what happens when you
• 21:03
  try to control others. Mess around and you're bound to
• 21:06
  find out. A Tik Toker named Kelsey shared
• 21:09
  a similar sentiment in a viral TikTok that has amassed almost
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  200,000 likes and 900,000 views at the time of recording.
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  This man is terrified. This man is so fucking scared
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  for his life right now and it makes me so happy.
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  What would you look at here? The consequences of your own
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  fucking actions. While many users agree with the
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  messaging within these. Tik Toks others have.
• 21:34
  Questioned whether the Internet takes their digital revenge too.
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  Far, especially when the. Offender didn't do anything
• 21:40
  illegal. Does a harmful post warrant your
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  private information being leaked?
• 21:45
  There are definitely divided opinions on that question, but
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  one thing Internet users seem to generate early agree on when it
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  comes to this particular case is that Nick.
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  Probably. Should have seen this coming.
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  That's largely because doxing has become increasingly common
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  over the years, prompting many users to be more careful about
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  what they post online. And with the recent US election
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  still fresh, many women and marginalized communities.
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  Are deeply concerned about what a.
• 22:10
  Second Trump term will bring. Given that Nick's content isn't
• 22:13
  necessarily illegal and platforms are often slow to
• 22:16
  deplatform problematic figures, it's somewhat understandable
• 22:20
  that some users consider doxing as the only.
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  Way to stop his. Harmful messaging Ultimately,
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  whether you believe Nick had it coming or not, this reaction
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  goes to show how normalized doxing has become since.
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  The rise of TikTok. Like X and Reddit, TikTok has
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  seen its fair share of doxing even before Nick.
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  Another notable example is when Tik.
• 22:40
  T.O.K users started. Doxing the United States Supreme
• 22:43
  Court justices after. The overturn of Roe V.
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  Wade in June 2022. At this point, I'm sure many of
• 22:50
  you have heard. Of Roe V Wade.
• 22:51
  Even if, like me, you aren't based in the United.
• 22:54
  States, but for those. Who are less familiar?
• 22:56
  the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn this ruling
• 22:59
  effectively removed the constitutional right to
• 23:02
  abortion, eliminating federal protections and leaving abortion
• 23:05
  laws up to the individual states.
• 23:07
  Unsurprisingly, people were angry leading some TikTok.
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  Users to dox the. Conservative justices who backed
• 23:13
  the majority opinion, according to reporting by Jules.
• 23:16
  Roscoe for Vice quote. Some of the.
• 23:18
  Video shared. Supposed credit.
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  Card information Other videos showed the home addresses of the
• 23:23
  five Republican appointed. Justices who voted to.
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  Overturn the decision. Those addresses do show up in
• 23:29
  public records databases tied to the justices.
• 23:33
  While TikTok attempted to suppress the content and.
• 23:35
  Delete the videos. Roscoe notes that other videos.
• 23:38
  Continue to pop up with the information quote recirculating
• 23:42
  through smaller and smaller accounts in the same format a.
• 23:45
  Slideshow of the Justices portraits with text over their
• 23:48
  faces. This example is particularly
• 23:51
  interesting because it indicates one reason for the normalization
• 23:55
  of doxing on the platform. Gen.
• 23:57
  Zed treats doxing as a. Form of protest.
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  A theme that is also clear when considering the reaction to Nick
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  Fuentes. Since 2020, we have watched as
• 24:06
  Gen. Zed has embraced political
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  activism and the pursuit of equality on social media.
• 24:11
  Through this. Gen.
• 24:12
  Zed has essentially changed what it means to be a celebrity.
• 24:15
  Fame is no longer just about glitz and glam.
• 24:18
  It's also about standing for change in progress with this
• 24:21
  shift, Genzet. Expects their favorite.
• 24:23
  Influencers and celebrities to take a stand on key issues and
• 24:27
  share their political endorsements.
• 24:28
  When they don't, the backlash can be intense.
• 24:32
  We all remember the response to Chapel Roads refusing to endorse
• 24:35
  Kamala Harris. Whether this perception is valid
• 24:38
  or not, it highlights the fusion of Internet culture, social
• 24:41
  media and politics. This, in turn, has made the
• 24:45
  digital space more. Powerful for political protest.
• 24:48
  Than ever before, there's no denying the positive.
• 24:51
  Side of the. Politicization of online spaces
• 24:55
  With TikTok democratizing fame and influence and political
• 24:58
  commentary becoming more common, the platform has given
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  historically marginalized a chance to challenge racial
• 25:04
  hegemony and oppressive societal systems that are tough to break
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  down. Doxing in some cases has become
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  a powerful. Tool to flip.
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  The balance of power and privilege on its head.
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  But it's also a slippery slope. Beyond the risk of
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  misidentification and the spread of inaccurate details.
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  There's a larger. Issue with doxing and the no
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  nuance culture that's taken root on TikTok.
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  Consider. A typical TikTok.
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  Comment section While comments are often funnier than the
• 25:32
  content itself, they can also veer into problematic and
• 25:36
  defensive territory, whether it's the anonymity.
• 25:39
  Or sheer volume of. Users on the platform people
• 25:41
  often don't assume the. Original poster will.
• 25:44
  See their harsh comments. The conversation around this no
• 25:47
  nuance culture came to a head last year when a creator named
• 25:51
  Michelle went viral after saying kindness and consideration for
• 25:54
  others. Are part of a.
• 25:56
  Broader social contract while most viewers saw Michelle's
• 25:59
  message as a simple reminder of a fundamental aspect of human
• 26:03
  interaction that we owe everyone a sense of decency and kindness
• 26:06
  at face value, some users took. Issue with her video.
• 26:10
  They claimed the Creator was advocating for compassion
• 26:13
  towards individuals. Who are?
• 26:14
  Racist and sexist, while others felt that her message attacked
• 26:18
  neurodivergent. People who have difficulty
• 26:20
  interpreting social cues. Michelle later took to the
• 26:23
  platform to clarify her original.
• 26:25
  Video noting that she was not trying to excuse harmful
• 26:27
  behavior, instead it. Was a call for.
• 26:29
  Everyone to approach people. With a base level.
• 26:32
  Of empathy and kindness. What we can take?
• 26:34
  Away from this exchange. Is how TikTok.
• 26:37
  Users seem to prioritize the impact and the outcome of their
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  behavior online, even if it means sidelining values like
• 26:44
  politeness, kindness, and common decency.
• 26:47
  For many, the ends justify the means, even if it means
• 26:51
  bulldozing through these principles, while this isn't.
• 26:53
  Strictly related to. Doxing it.
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  Shows how the crusade. For moral superiority underpins
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  culture on TikTok and how we communicate to one another on
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  the app more often than not. This sort of discourse.
• 27:05
  Champions social justice and equality while aiming to amplify
• 27:08
  the voices of marginalized communities.
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  But that isn't. Always the case, especially.
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  When the moralizing voices come from all.
• 27:16
  Right circles, so when? Doxing becomes an option.
• 27:19
  With real lives. Families and mental well-being
• 27:22
  at stake, Tik Tok's relentless moral crusade can quickly
• 27:26
  backfire. Leah Kim, writing for Junkie,
• 27:28
  highlights an instance where the rush to doxing on TikTok may
• 27:32
  have been slightly premature in April.
• 27:34
  Of last year creator. Jacqui la Bonita.
• 27:37
  Posted a video. Captioned Watch my confidence.
• 27:39
  Disappear after these. Random girls make fun of me for
• 27:42
  taking pics. The video shows Jackie.
• 27:45
  Posing for. Photos at a baseball.
• 27:46
  Game while 2 girls behind her flip off the camera and laugh
• 27:50
  Soon TikTok sluice found the girls names, accounts and even
• 27:54
  where they worked where the mounting pressure led to them
• 27:56
  to. Issue an apology to the creator.
• 27:59
  In her article Kim. Questions whether the girls
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  deserve to be doxed. And harassed by thousands of
• 28:04
  social media users for basically photo bombing in a rude way.
• 28:09
  Quote. We probably all have our moments
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  of rudeness in public, yet we don't have that moment broadcast
• 28:14
  to millions of people who find out where we work and try to
• 28:17
  destroy our lives. On the other hand.
• 28:20
  We've also probably. Faced moments of rudeness from
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  other people and yearned for some kind of.
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  Justice, she writes. Ultimately, it feels like.
• 28:27
  Doxing has become a rather acceptable form of punishment
• 28:30
  for those who end up in the court of public opinion.
• 28:34
  The fact that the. Definition of doxing has also
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  expanded. Has helped this along.
• 28:39
  In a piece for The Atlantic, Caitlin Tiffany notes.
• 28:42
  How quote the word? Doxing wants to find a category
• 28:45
  of behaviors. Now it expresses an emotion, in
• 28:48
  other words. Whoever feels like they.
• 28:50
  Have been doxed, can claim the phenomenon.
• 28:52
  Through the article, she. Discusses a number of different
• 28:55
  incidents where. Creators or public figures?
• 28:57
  Have been doxed, noting how the term itself has been quote.
• 29:00
  Used to describe. So many different situations
• 29:04
  with varying degrees of sincerity and fairness.
• 29:06
  As a result, the. Original utility and definition
• 29:09
  of the term has diminished quote some people.
• 29:12
  Deploy the word. Doxing to refer to any.
• 29:14
  Breach of trust whether? Or not.
• 29:16
  It results in the dispersal of personally identifying
• 29:19
  information, Tiffany explains. In fandom spaces, doxing can
• 29:23
  refer to actions that do little more than make the practices of
• 29:26
  that fandom visible to a wider audience.
• 29:28
  I was once accused of doxing Harry Styles fans by tweeting
• 29:32
  out screenshots of a conversation that happened in a
• 29:35
  public Discord channel in which everybody participating was
• 29:39
  using a pseudonym quote. Therefore, as the definition of
• 29:42
  doxing becomes. Blurred the ethical.
• 29:44
  Concerns around it seem less consequential.
• 29:47
  On top of that, there's a definite sense of power in
• 29:50
  numbers, something that is amplified by the mob mentality
• 29:53
  that runs rampant on TikTok, with the algorithm tailoring
• 29:57
  content to users. It's easy to.
• 29:59
  Fall into an information bubble and become trapped by
• 30:02
  confirmation bias sometimes. This bias leaves us eager to dox
• 30:06
  creators. And average users, even when
• 30:08
  such a punishment far outweighs the offense.
• 30:11
  To circle back to the. Question at the top.
• 30:13
  Of the episode is it? Ever OK to dock someone?
• 30:16
  The expert opinions are mixed. As we've explored the.
• 30:20
  Consequences of doxing someone can be significant and life
• 30:23
  altering. When information is put out
• 30:25
  there in the online space, there's no telling.
• 30:28
  How viral it could go? With concerns around who might
• 30:30
  see it and what that they might choose to do with that
• 30:33
  information. On the flip side, some
• 30:36
  researchers like ethics and information technology scholar
• 30:39
  David M Douglas. Argue that.
• 30:41
  Doxing may be justified in cases of deception where the only.
• 30:45
  Way to show this deceit. And reveal the truth is to share
• 30:48
  information that is in the interest of the public.
• 30:51
  That being said, the ethics around the doxing that we
• 30:55
  typically see on social media rarely fall into this framework.
• 30:59
  And they're murky at best. What used to be a severe near
• 31:02
  breach of privacy. That occurred in rare and
• 31:04
  extreme circumstances, now feels almost commonplace.
• 31:09
  And while the trend won't vanish overnight, the debate over when,
• 31:12
  if ever, Daxing is justified. Will likely follow everyday.
• 31:17
  Social media users and. Creators for years.
• 31:20
  To come infinite. Scroll is a podcast.
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  Produced, presented and Co written by me Lauren Meissner
• 31:26
  for Centennial World. This episode was researched.
• 31:29
  And written by Annabelle Ben David.
• 31:30
  Editing is by Danny Fennec. Thank you so much for listening.
• 31:34
  I love you guys and I will talk to you next week.
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  Bye.