A meme was posted to c/[email protected] with a partial picture of a driver’s licence. The Lemmy users in the comments proceeded to post all the identifying information they could get from the license, including gender, date of birth, and zip code of the person’s home. The meme is probably reposted and so this isn’t doxxing the Lemmy OP, but that’s what the users in the comments seem to think they’re doing.
Collecting and disseminating someone’s personal information is doxxing even if that information could be found anyway with enough time and knowledge.
Ehh, this is an upload of a document filled with personal info that was intentionally shared. Not a big deal imo, if Lemmings weren’t going to do it, someone else would have.
This argument falls flat because if nobody does it, then nobody does it. It’s not okay to do something wrong just because you believe it’s likely someone else will later.
Capitalism 101
“other people litter here, so I can too”
It would be very cool if Lemmy was better than places like 4chan
“someone” can do it on a corpo server ;)