[redegg]

Property tax searches are a great way to DOX someone, btw.

[robinh]

DOX?

[mrfairladyz]

To find and release publicly personal information about someone -- name, address, phone number, and even SSN and credit card numbers -- in such away that they become identifiable to just about anyone online.

This was a hot topic a few months back when reddit had to deal with it: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/10/truth-lies-doxxing-inte...

[rmc]

Doxing is one of the forms of protected free speech that reddit bans.

[pc86]

Protected speech?

[ahi]

It's not actually illegal in the United States. As opposed to child porn that does not have 1st amendment protections.

[rmc]

It would not be legal (in general) in EU. Data Protection etc.

Yes, child porn is banned on reddit. But things that are protected free speech, but not child porn ("sexually suggestive images of minors") are also banned on reddit.

[rmc]

A term used to describe speech protected under the US Constitution / First Amendement, i.e. it's illegal for the government to ban this sort of speech (they can ban other sorts of speech). Reddit is based in USA, and learn close to the US legal definition of free speech (except in some cases).

[pc86]

Since Reddit isn't the federal government, I fail to see the issue with them deciding what forms of speech are and are not acceptable for their forum.

[robinh]

Thanks! And thanks to officemonkey, too! (But I can't reply to two comments with a single one, I think.)

[officemonkey]

DOX: Search for and compile records about a specific person in order to hack/prank/harass/thieve them.