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They previously agreed, but of course that was when it was them and not someone they dislike. If it's someone they don't like, then fair game.

"Doxxing, stalking, trying to hurt people's loved ones, threatening them, it's not OK in any situation. People on here who want to constantly stoke these politicized outrage campaigns want to dismiss it, but it shouldn't be dismissed. Has very real consequences." @taylorlorenz

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That’s right — all doxxing is always bad. There is no good or evil, except doxxing. I think it was Benjamin Washington Paine who famously said, “Sir, I may not agree with how you keep convincing your followers to call bomb threats into my hospitals + libraries & blow up my town’s electricity substations, simply because they don’t like someone else’s speech, but I will defend to the death your right to do so without anyone ever exposing your identity.”

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