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by xvokcarts 129 days ago
Why were you trying to dox the archive owner?
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This is misrepresentative of the situation, and an unloaded version of the question being asked here is answered within the article itself.
How is it misrepresentative of the situation?
Because none of the names are real and they were all already posted publicly previously. This is covered in the article.
We don't know that none of the names are real. And even if they aren't, the article is still showcasing his failed attempt at doxing the owner of archive.today and providing a starting point for anyone else wanting to try.

> they were all already posted publicly previously

Doxing very often consists of nothing more than collecting data from a bunch of public sources

> Doxing very often consists of nothing more than collecting data from a bunch of public sources

I simply don't agree that this looks like doxing. No addresses or even any private information were reported. It's just a Google using WhoIs data and, in one case, the person said, in a public forum, that archive.is is "my website." Why would they have said that if they were worried about people finding out who it belongs to?

If they'd have stumbled upon an address to a private residence and reported that, sure, that would look like doxing. I just don't see it here.

Call it what you will, this activity is hardly defensible.
Is it only doxxing if the organisation is digital only? Should we have no right to know who controls a large media organisation?
Whether you have a right to know, according to your personal value system, is orthogonal to whether it's doxing.
Rights don’t emanate from one’s subjective personal beliefs. Sure, there are “natural rights” espoused by political philosophers, but in the real world, rights are enshrined in constitutions and codified in laws that we are all subject to.
Again, irrelevant to the question of whether it's doxing.
It's absolutely relevant. Some activities break the law; others don't. Why should we care about and assign a negative appellation like "doxxing" to lawful investigative activity?
Whether you care about somebody getting doxed is orthogonal to whether they've been doxed. Whether you care or not is entirely up to you, it has no relevance.
This kills the organisation