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by Xelynega 1275 days ago
Lol.

1) ok than what is the difference between doxxing and sending my friend an address on Google. According to you the public availability of the information isn't the difference, so I'm curious where it is or if you consider that case "doxxing" as well.

2) The public mapping is the opposite of what your imagining. There's a public map of "addresses"->"names" for houses but that's irrelevant because we're talking about getting the home address for a given person.

3) I'm literally responding to a comment that used that example so I don't know why it set you off here.

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>ok than what is the difference between doxxing and sending my friend an address on Google.

"What's the difference between a public post and a private message?"

>According to you the public availability of the information isn't the difference, so I'm curious where it is or if you consider that case "doxxing" as well.

It's almost like words have meaning and definitions: "Doxxing is the act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the internet." [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing

>The public mapping is the opposite of what your imagining. There's a public map of "addresses"->"names" for houses but that's irrelevant because we're talking about getting the home address for a given person.

This is wrong. You can search by last name in county CADs to get property addresses. As in, you can go "names"->"addresses" as well. Property ownership is public information.

>I'm literally responding to a comment that used that example so I don't know why it set you off here.

You literally didn't know the definition of doxxing.