"Lest this comes off as a diatribe against mistake theorists, I should clarify that, being one, I have absolutely no idea how else you can build a stable society, and I stopped following Naomi Wu after she posted Jason Koebler's address on the internet. That's doxxing, and doxxing is wrong."
I would ask whether you extend the same policy towards VICE and stop following them entirely after they knowingly put a source at risk? It seems to me that she faces far more danger than Koebler does as a result of that exchange.
"My inner conflict theorist asks: who should win here? Are they?"
Well you have people using MASSIVE capital and national resources to obliterate the safety of an almost entirely powerless person who they use for clicks on their website. And then you have that person responding in literally the only way they can.
So yeah, I feel like it's pretty clear who should win here. One party exploited the other first. One party is operating with massively more power. One party is not vulnerable to personal information posting (doxxing doesn't just include addresses and names!) from a harassment campaign. One party kept on working like normal, while the other suffered blacklisting.
People can make this a grand debate ideals from their ascetic judgment of the situation, but all they're doing is supporting the powerful corporation who exploited, endangered, doxxed, and blacklisted a vulnerable person in a foreign country who has no recourse.
I would ask whether you extend the same policy towards VICE and stop following them entirely after they knowingly put a source at risk? It seems to me that she faces far more danger than Koebler does as a result of that exchange.
"My inner conflict theorist asks: who should win here? Are they?"
Well you have people using MASSIVE capital and national resources to obliterate the safety of an almost entirely powerless person who they use for clicks on their website. And then you have that person responding in literally the only way they can.
So yeah, I feel like it's pretty clear who should win here. One party exploited the other first. One party is operating with massively more power. One party is not vulnerable to personal information posting (doxxing doesn't just include addresses and names!) from a harassment campaign. One party kept on working like normal, while the other suffered blacklisting.
People can make this a grand debate ideals from their ascetic judgment of the situation, but all they're doing is supporting the powerful corporation who exploited, endangered, doxxed, and blacklisted a vulnerable person in a foreign country who has no recourse.