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by Brian_K_White 1277 days ago
If it's public it can be googled, and if it can be googled it's not obscure.

Argument is invalid.

This is absolutely not doxxing.

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So if I used publicly available information (property tax records, court records, vehicle registration records, whatever) to post Brian K. White's home address, it "wouldn't be doxxing"?

Pull the other one.

Correct.
Yeah, no.

Pretty much every platform (including Twitter) considers that to be doxxing.

You don't get to make up your own definitions for words.

Public data is public, but actions are a different story.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Uxwbo7bhebMnLrpn8

(For the bystanders: There is no other included letter or note, just this unsolicited package containing a bare, although apparently new and unused, surgical mask with no explaination and no known-to-me sender. The string was cut unwittingly while cutting open the envelope.)

This conversation: 12-18

Sent: 12-18

Origin: anonymous fulfillment service

https://branchwarehousing.com/

So you have uncovered some never-was-covered public data from my full-real-name-middle-initial-and-all handle, and proved that some people out there are willing to mis-use public data, and that you are one of them, and I am not.

Strange point to want to make.

I wonder if HN has any sort of official stance on that sort of action @dang ?