Columbia University has a doxxing problem
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Columbia University has a doxxing problem
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Re: Columbia University has a doxxing problem
#2It's not doxxing to call out people for their public actions. It's attribution.
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#3The doxxing campaign is deplorable and unacceptable on its own terms, of course.
However the article mischaracterizes the nature at least of the petitions that some of the students signed, making it out to be more harmless and innocuous than it actually was:
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine published an open letter on Monday demanding the University to “start verbally acknowledging Palestinian existence and humanity.”
Despite the odds against them, Palestinians launched a counter-offensive against their settler-colonial oppressor – which receives billions of US dollars annually in military aid and possesses one of the world’s most robust surveillance and security apparatuses. Any omission of this context – any rhetoric of “an unprovoked Palestinian attack” – is shamefully misleading.
Which is a nauseatingly stupid and insensitive thing to say right after 700+ civilians had just been butchered, and another 200+ dragged off into tunnels by a certain militant group (whom the type of people who sign such petitions like to affectionately refer to as "the Resistance") can make some kind of a political point. In my view.
None of which justifies the doxxing campaign. But there's no need to mince words about the nature of the petition campaigns that preceded it.
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#4It's not doxxing to call out people for their public actions. It's attribution.
it's retribution.
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#5It's not doxxing to call out people for their public actions. It's attribution.
The first example in the article concerns a student that was attributed as a signatory after a group they no longer attend signed on their behalf.
Call it attribution if you want but it's a pretty terrible job of it.
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#6It's not doxxing to call out people for their public actions. It's attribution.
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#7I haven't seen a shred of evidence that these protestors are violent, or that they harass members of campuses, as they are said to do. The unbelievably harsh response from the universities and the state, which included forced dispersion by the police, roof snipers at Indiana University, and threats to call in the national guard by the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at Columbia, has led me to feel incredibly depressed. I feel that we are reaching a schism in the history of the United States, where liberalism is dying and being replaced by... something else.
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#8If you participate in a public event you can’t really expect to keep that activity secret. (One could also argue that the fact you want to indicates you feel there is something wrong about your actions)
I wouldn’t really say this is doxing, since that usually refers to revealing a private online identity.
Re: Columbia University has a doxxing problem
#9It's not doxxing to call out people for their public actions. It's attribution.
The first example in the article concerns a student that was attributed as a signatory after a group they no longer attend signed on their behalf. Call it attribution if you want but it's a pretty terrible job of it.
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#10I haven't seen a shred of evidence that these protestors are violent, or that they harass members of campuses, as they are said to do. The unbelievably harsh response from the universities and the state, which included forced dispersion by the police, roof snipers at Indiana University, and threats to call in the national guard by the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at Columbia, has led me to feel incredibly depres…
Are you familiar with the 1960s? Somehow we survived that without “liberalism dying”.