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A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus

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Re: A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus

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Post by KittenInABox »

Are these people just largely early-20s to not-even-20 year olds? They say stupid, potentially heinous shit all the time. The correct punishment is usually just to call their legal guardians, professors, stuff like this to get them scolded and to issue public apologies as needed, and maybe they lose privileged positions like membership to social clubs or something like that.

I don't know about the letter, was it advocating for more violence or saying proceeds go to fund terrorism or something direct like this? At least that kind of response would make more sense... but if it's just a bad opinion with no actual causal relationship to terrorism I don't get it.

Re: A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus

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Post by EdwardDiego »

pauldenton wrote: post #6
ribs wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, this is like, incitement to get them killed, so: no. Even if they were murderers, instead of people who said stuff - and believe me, I hate what they said - you wouldn’t stick their faces on a truck and flirt with getting them killed.

I don't think anyone is going to get killed over this at Harvard

Because no-one would ever travel for some political violence?

Re: A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus

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Post by Racing0461 »

I fully support isreal defending themselves (both from a security perspective and a revenge perspective).

With that being said, i get what these people are also saying. Equating palistine with hamas is like blaming me for obama droning a wedding.

Were these student groups actually supporting hamas or did they just identify with the people of palistine?

Re: A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus

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Post by testfoobar »

KittenInABox wrote: post #11

Are these people just largely early-20s to not-even-20 year olds? They say stupid, potentially heinous shit all the time. The correct punishment is usually just to call their legal guardians, professors, stuff like this to get them scolded and to issue public apologies as needed, and maybe they lose privileged positions like membership to social clubs or something like that. I don't know about the letter, was it advo…

A scolding is mild. Harvard has a history of rescinding admissions of students sharing inflammatory comments. What should be done here?

https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/06/24...

Re: A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus

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Post by sudobash1 »

tannedNerd wrote: post #2

As much as I hate doxxing anonymous accounts, I’m kinda ok with this. You want to release heinous statements without a retraction you deserve real world consequences. The student groups that issued retractions should be spared but anyone who supports barbarism should be shunned and punished. Also don’t give me the bs that they posted they hate all civilian lives lost, they only posted that after the NYU student lost…

> ...displaying the names and faces of students allegedly affiliated with student groups that signed...

The article certainly makes it sound as though there is a definite possibility that the students who were doxxed did not actually sign anything. The accusation made by the doxxers is one that could lead to serious consequences, especially given the inflammatory nature of this.

Re: A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus

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Post by sneak »

jassyr wrote: post #7

>"Harvard Economics professor Jason Furman ’92 shared a similar statement on X, writing that he had been contacted by a student who had been doxxed despite no longer attending Harvard or affiliating with the co-signing group." Undeniable tragedy what happened, innocent lives lost and countless more will die in this war, but accusing and doxxing innocent people whose lives will be overturned seems like the wrong appro…

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Re: A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus

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Post by nl »

tannedNerd wrote: post #2

As much as I hate doxxing anonymous accounts, I’m kinda ok with this. You want to release heinous statements without a retraction you deserve real world consequences. The student groups that issued retractions should be spared but anyone who supports barbarism should be shunned and punished. Also don’t give me the bs that they posted they hate all civilian lives lost, they only posted that after the NYU student lost…

I can't disagree with this strongly enough.

The whole "well their side did something bad so that justifies this action in return" is exactly what caused this problem in the first place.

To continue it only invites escalation.

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Post by Frummy »

tannedNerd wrote: post #2

As much as I hate doxxing anonymous accounts, I’m kinda ok with this. You want to release heinous statements without a retraction you deserve real world consequences. The student groups that issued retractions should be spared but anyone who supports barbarism should be shunned and punished. Also don’t give me the bs that they posted they hate all civilian lives lost, they only posted that after the NYU student lost…

Regardless of the circumstance, intimidation tactics like these undermine free speech.

Re: A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus

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Post by krapp »

eli_gottlieb wrote: post #9
pauldenton wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think anyone is going to get killed over this at Harvard

Ok, but why should people who never received the statements some group signed with which they were affiliated be fired from their jobs? This is beyond a free speech issue. You can't ask people to always know everything happening and raise their hand for the right thing at the right time.

>Ok, but why should people who never received the statements some group signed with which they were affiliated be fired from their jobs?

Employers have the right to fire anyone for almost any reason in the US. That is a consequence of both freedom of speech and freedom of association.

Re: A 'Doxxing Truck' Displaying Students' Faces Comes to Harvard's Campus

#20

Post by Supermancho »

Statement here - no signatories showing. Twitter screenshot being passed around just shows a number of signatory organization names, although there has been a reference to a number of individuals that were signatories as well. Would be nice if the facts were clearer.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/10/psc-statement-...

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