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> If your position is "Well they should involve the courts first," no because no crime has been committed, unless you count the doxxing.
Doxxing is not illegal in the US. It may be a component of another crime, such as slander or incitement to violence. If the individual in question believes this organization has done either of those things, they are welcome to involve the law (as the other party is doing).
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> People often don't chose to be as they are. That's true but what does it have to do with the price of tea in China? The commenter raised a valid point that we may need to decide to compartmentalize for the sake of our own well being. This does not necessarily imply any measure of judgement against the other person.
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so they have resulted to crime, to combat a problem user?
Do you have proof they have resorted to crime? What crime? Be specific. You could perhaps suggest slander, incitement to violence, or invasion of privacy. High bar to satisfy a case for any of those three. Consider everything a private investigator could do IRL if one retained their services to track down an unknown individual; in general, none of those actions are considered criminal (though the spied-upon person wo…
It seems that every big project attracts that one persistent weirdo who comes by from time to time and posts silly stuff. I've noticed this pattern for a while now. I don't want to give names but I've at least seen some... bizarre issues on the LLVM tracker, for example.
Oh man, yeah there has been some absolute dogshit ones on LLVM. The Docker one has also seen some pretty freaky weirdos. It’s a bit sad, we’re all on the same OSS team in the end. I’ve never found it that difficult to keep it cut and dry on software repos, I don’t know why people don’t just save the venom for forums and social media like the good ol days.
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Doxxing is not illegal in the US. It may be a component of another crime, such as slander or incitement to violence. If the individual in question believes this organization has done either of those things, they are welcome to involve the law (as the other party is doing).
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Do you have some snippets of the text of the law you're thinking of that I can search to see what you mean?
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My apologies; I'm trying to follow you, but as best I can tell 15 USC 43 is "The principal office of the Commission shall be in the city of Washington, but it may meet and exercise all its powers at any other place. The Commission may, by one or more of its members, or by such examiners as it may designate, prosecute any inquiry necessary to its duties in any part of the United States." ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/…
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My apologies; I'm trying to follow you, but as best I can tell 15 USC 43 is "The principal office of the Commission shall be in the city of Washington, but it may meet and exercise all its powers at any other place. The Commission may, by one or more of its members, or by such examiners as it may designate, prosecute any inquiry necessary to its duties in any part of the United States." ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/…
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I have mixed feelings on calling him out by name. It sounds like the person is going through tough times. This obsessive behaviour doesn't describe someone who's living a happy, fulfilling life. The bug reports might be his flawed way to reach out and be part of the community. I'm not arguing for people to enable his negative behaviour. I just wish there was another solution than the nuclear option: this public warni…
The way out has always been there: said person just disengages. People like this refuse to use it.
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Your position is effectively “it’s not harassment when we harass someone, because we’re not the harassers”. Doxxing is an escalation intended to cause real harm in the real world.
> Doxxing is an escalation intended to cause real harm in the real world Correct. And is the necessary escalation when online-only tools have failed and the attacker will not relent (such as this circumstance, where the actor in question is taking active steps to bypass methods to down-sample their signal). I'm assuming most people holding a position in this conversation aren't absolutists (for example, they recogniz…
other tools are available (captcha, TLS fingerprinting, browser fingerprinting). if the moderator is not using these, its not a free permission for them to doxx someone.