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by vezzy-fnord 3950 days ago
They're not just being called assholes, they're having all personal and financial details dumped in the process. There's a difference.

We've generally determined that sexual practices, as long as they're consensual and do not involve harm to anyone outside the participants themselves, should not be subject to persecution. This includes incest, as much as it may disgust you. A lot of people are disgusted by coprophagia, that doesn't mean we should publicly shame people for having sexual tastes that aren't to our fancy. It is as arbitrary as shaming people for musical preferences.

Domestic violence is a wholly separate problem altogether. There's nothing that doxing will do to solve it.

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The incest I was talking about was wrt the Family Values discussions in the 80's in which there was some discussion of molestation being a family issue that should not be handled by the courts. Admittedly this was a fringe view, but still discussed.

I agree that financial data being dumped is over the top.