This calls for the world’s tiniest violin.
I don't know if every state is like this, but in my state, all state employee salaries are public information that anyone can look up. Why should federal employees have their information hidden? They're supposed to work for us.
This whole concept of “doxxing” has spun way out of control.
Every house in the country used to get a giant paperback book every year with the name, address, and telephone number of everyone that lived in the community. This information has never been considered secret.
Doxxing specifically refers to unmasking a pseudonym. That’s it. If there’s no pseudonym, it’s not doxxing.
You could not do anything with that information nor did you know anything or could you reasonably find out anything about 99% of names in the book without effort, so this is just disingenous
The current regime decided lawlessness was beneficial to them. Cuts both ways. I suppose people should consider carefully whether signing bonuses and the chance to abuse marginalised people with impunity is worth it. I'm fine with people making it riskier to throw in with corrupt authoritarians for personal benefit.
How do you plan to make that risk real for them?
Alternative discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280864
142 comments right now. Go there instead.
If those employees didn't do anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about.
What do you plan to do to make them worry? Are you insulated from others?
Why would I want them to worry? Are you insinuating they did something wrong?
I'm sure this line works well with doxx'ing victims.
Public servants? It’s the line the government uses to justify dragnet mass surveillance.
No harm in knowing who is working for you.
> It’s the line the government uses to justify dragnet mass surveillance.
Agreed. But I don't see how that justifies your original comment.
The original comment is clearly an expression of schadenfreude.
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Do those doxxed victims have significant power over an average person?
With great power comes greater responsibilities
> If those employees didn't do anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about.
That's the line I responded to, in case you didn't read it.
That is the line govt uses/used to justify mass surveillance. OP is just flipping the table?
Yeah Spiderman is such an influence over real life.
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The whole epitome of this thread is that my enemies got doxx'd and so now I shall jump through dozens of logical hoops in order to justify it.
Oh, also, if you're not happy with this, you obviously must agree with everything they are doing.