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SamusOverCloud posted...

Okay but what exactly is doxxing here

obviously if someone deliberately finds you offsite and harasses you or shares personal and identifiable information about you yes absolutely doxxing

The part I struggle with is say my name is samusovercloud right. I share my selfie in the CE selfie chat. Then someone shares that somewhere else. That's NOT doxxing. I put my picture there publicly.

Matchabuu you post selfies. If you also make your other social media accounts with the same username and someone finds them and you have naughty pics or something then they get posted elsewhere for example how is that doxxing. Its absolutely nothing that you didnt already publicly display. This is just an example not real ofc

It's also pretty sad when people use the same username across platforms theb get all upset when people find them. Theres countless cases on gamefaqs alone about that.

Oh hey I better make my reddit account with pics and identifiable info and all my subbed fetish subreddits the exact same fucking name as my gamefaqs account
Soooo stupid you get what you get there I mean

This.

Woke culture and cancel culture are trivializing what doxxing really means.

If you argue with someone online and go find out their real life identity, that's doxxing.
If you argue with someone online and contact them in real life, that's doxxing.
If you call the SWAT or cops on someone you argued with online that is NOT doxxing, that's far worse, I don't know if there's a name for it, but it might as well be tentative murder.

But if you post your pic or something stupid online, out there for everyone to see, and people make fun of it, that's not doxxing. If Johhny B posts his pic and someone makes a topic saying "Johnny B's pants are too tight in this pic, LMAO", that is not doxxing. It would only be doxxing if the caption said "Johnny B is actually James Smith, he lives in 1243 street address, zip code 111111, and his email is [email protected]".