Doxxing Websites and cancel culture

[JLW]

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, right-wing influencers and at least one Trump administration official have actively encouraged people to scour the internet for remarks celebrating the killing and to expose those who have posted them online.

The widespread and fast-moving campaign of naming-and-shaming has already resulted in countless lost jobs, professional suspensions and internal investigations, exacerbating the already fraught tensions over the shooting that exist online.…

Among those personalities have been far-right agitators like Laura Loomer and Chaya Raichik, who runs a large account on X called Libs of TikTok. Since the shooting, they and dozens of other online influencers have taken it upon themselves to recruit ordinary Americans to turn in fellow citizens for making comments about Mr. Kirk that may be nasty or disparaging, but are likely protected by the First Amendment...


[However this form of doxxing is not limited to the rightwing but is part of the leftwing playbook as well]

Left-wing activists have used similar tactics in the past to draw attention to overtly racist or anti-gay remarks online, in an effort to bring public censure to the people posting them. Right-wing activists have pushed back hard against these efforts, branding them as examples of “cancel culture.”

Teams of digital sleuths, calling themselves “Sedition Hunters,” also played a large role in identifying rioters who took part in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But the people they focused on generally appeared to be involved in criminal activity rather than constitutionally protected speech, and the information they collected was often handed over to the traditional authorities for further possible use.

In February, after news outlets identified employees of Elon Musk’s government-slashing agency, the Department of Governmental Efficiency, Ed Martin, then serving as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, promised Mr. Musk in a letterthat his office would “pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/charlie-kirk-shooting-firings-celebration.html

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Personally I find this form of doxxing and cancel culture odious whether from the left or right. I think you should be able to speak your mind online without facing the threat of losing your job so long you are not engaging in any illegal activity. I think scouring the Internet to find individuals who post incendiary, controversial or odious comments to publicity humiliate them in another forum just stifles freedom of expression as well as creates even greater divisions.

Are you even safe in sites like this where you are supposedly anonymous?

This phenomena comes from both the left and right so in a perverse way it is nonpartisan.

Are you in for or against doxxing those that disagree with you or to score political points?

 

[Hellokitty]

Liberals set the standard, and now they want to cry foul when applied to them.

 

[Moonglow]

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, right-wing influencers and at least one Trump administration official have actively encouraged people to scour the internet for remarks celebrating the killing and to expose those who have posted them online.

The widespread and fast-moving campaign of naming-and-shaming has already resulted in countless lost jobs, professional suspensions and internal investigations, exacerbating the already fraught tensions over the shooting that exist online.…

Among those personalities have been far-right agitators like Laura Loomer and Chaya Raichik, who runs a large account on X called Libs of TikTok. Since the shooting, they and dozens of other online influencers have taken it upon themselves to recruit ordinary Americans to turn in fellow citizens for making comments about Mr. Kirk that may be nasty or disparaging, but are likely protected by the First Amendment...


[However this form of doxxing is not limited to the rightwing but is part of the leftwing playbook as well]

Left-wing activists have used similar tactics in the past to draw attention to overtly racist or anti-gay remarks online, in an effort to bring public censure to the people posting them. Right-wing activists have pushed back hard against these efforts, branding them as examples of “cancel culture.”

Teams of digital sleuths, calling themselves “Sedition Hunters,” also played a large role in identifying rioters who took part in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But the people they focused on generally appeared to be involved in criminal activity rather than constitutionally protected speech, and the information they collected was often handed over to the traditional authorities for further possible use.

In February, after news outlets identified employees of Elon Musk’s government-slashing agency, the Department of Governmental Efficiency, Ed Martin, then serving as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, promised Mr. Musk in a letterthat his office would “pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/charlie-kirk-shooting-firings-celebration.html

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Personally I find this form of doxxing and cancel culture odious whether from the left or right. I think you should be able to speak your mind online without facing the threat of losing your job so long you are not engaging in any illegal activity. I think scouring the Internet to find individuals who post incendiary, controversial or odious comments to publicity humiliate them in another forum just stifles freedom of expression as well as creates even greater divisions.

Are you even safe in sites like this where you are supposedly anonymous?

This phenomena comes from both the left and right so in a perverse way it is nonpartisan.

Are you in for or against doxxing those that disagree with you or to score political points?

If you are a nobody, you can say what yous likes with no consequences.

 

[JLW]

Liberals set the standard, and now they want to cry foul when applied to them.

So, you are now in favor of doxxing and cancel culture. Okay.

 

[Moonglow]

Liberals set the standard, and now they want to cry foul when applied to them.

Just like the MAGATs cry foul.

 

[JLW]

If you are a nobody, you can say what yous likes with no consequences.

You are a nobody until you get doxxed by a busybody who tells everybody which doxxing is discovered by a somebody in which case you will be relegated to a homebody.

 

[westwall]

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, right-wing influencers and at least one Trump administration official have actively encouraged people to scour the internet for remarks celebrating the killing and to expose those who have posted them online.

The widespread and fast-moving campaign of naming-and-shaming has already resulted in countless lost jobs, professional suspensions and internal investigations, exacerbating the already fraught tensions over the shooting that exist online.…

Among those personalities have been far-right agitators like Laura Loomer and Chaya Raichik, who runs a large account on X called Libs of TikTok. Since the shooting, they and dozens of other online influencers have taken it upon themselves to recruit ordinary Americans to turn in fellow citizens for making comments about Mr. Kirk that may be nasty or disparaging, but are likely protected by the First Amendment...


[However this form of doxxing is not limited to the rightwing but is part of the leftwing playbook as well]

Left-wing activists have used similar tactics in the past to draw attention to overtly racist or anti-gay remarks online, in an effort to bring public censure to the people posting them. Right-wing activists have pushed back hard against these efforts, branding them as examples of “cancel culture.”

Teams of digital sleuths, calling themselves “Sedition Hunters,” also played a large role in identifying rioters who took part in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But the people they focused on generally appeared to be involved in criminal activity rather than constitutionally protected speech, and the information they collected was often handed over to the traditional authorities for further possible use.

In February, after news outlets identified employees of Elon Musk’s government-slashing agency, the Department of Governmental Efficiency, Ed Martin, then serving as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, promised Mr. Musk in a letterthat his office would “pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/charlie-kirk-shooting-firings-celebration.html

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Personally I find this form of doxxing and cancel culture odious whether from the left or right. I think you should be able to speak your mind online without facing the threat of losing your job so long you are not engaging in any illegal activity. I think scouring the Internet to find individuals who post incendiary, controversial or odious comments to publicity humiliate them in another forum just stifles freedom of expression as well as creates even greater divisions.

Are you even safe in sites like this where you are supposedly anonymous?

This phenomena comes from both the left and right so in a perverse way it is nonpartisan.

Are you in for or against doxxing those that disagree with you or to score political points?

Good. You fuckers deserve to be doxxed. You are nothing but scum. We aren't playing nice anymore you stupid ****.

 

[westwall]

So, you are now in favor of doxxing and cancel culture. Okay.

Hey asshat, you fuckers have been doing it for years.

Now you get to experience it too.

Maybe next time don't act like a prick.

 

[JLW]

Good. You fuckers deserve to be doxxed. You are nothing but scum. We aren't playing nice anymore you stupid ****.

You off your meds again. The only scum I see are the likes of you and your ilk. You have enough atrocious posts that if you are ever doxxed you wouldn’t be able to walk around the block or rolled down the nursing home hallway without being scorned.

 

[JLW]

Hey asshat, you fuckers have been doing it for years.

Now you get to experience it too.

Maybe next time don't act like a prick.

So, you are now in favor of cancel culture. It figures, You MAGAs have always been hypocrites.

 

[westwall]

You off your meds again. The only scum I see are the likes of you and your ilk. You have enough atrocious posts that if you are ever doxxed you wouldn’t be able to walk around the block without being scorned.

Nah, yours is the side that has been doxxing for years, SWATTING people you don't like etc.

Now it's your turn to be afraid.

 

[JLW]

Nah, yours is the side that has been doxxing for years, SWATTING people you don't like etc.

Now it's your turn to be afraid.

Threatening again you old fart. Are you sitting in your wheelchair at the nursing home typing your garbage tough guy?

 

[westwall]

Threatening again you old fart. Are you sitting on your wheelchair at the nursing typing your garbage tough guy?

Nope, just stating facts. You hate it when your tactics are used against you.

Too. *******. Bad.

 

[JLW]

Nope, just stating facts. You hate it when your tactics are used against you.

Too. *******. Bad.

You have no facts just hyperventilating. I made a point that doxxing and cancel culture is bad and you disagree. You love it. So stop bitching about the left. You are all for it now. Who ever said you MAGAs had any principles?

 

[Concerned American]

The widespread and fast-moving campaign of naming-and-shaming

If you are guilty of these acts, you need to be named and shamed. Isn't that the MO of the democrat party. What did Maxine Waters say? Quite a departure from Charlie Kirk's respectful debates, eh?

 

[Moonglow]

You are a nobody until you get doxxed by a busybody who tells everybody which doxxing is discovered by a somebody in which case you will be relegated to a homebody.

I am sure I will get raided with an illegal shipment of MyLax.

 

[drudge X]

So, you are now in favor of doxxing and cancel culture. Okay.

I believe in revenge and payback. I am disappointed that Trump isn’t going far enough with his policies.

 

[westwall]

I believe in revenge and payback. I am disappointed that Trump isn’t going far enough with his policies.

Me too. Charlie Kirk was a far better person than I.

 

[ThisIsMe]

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, right-wing influencers and at least one Trump administration official have actively encouraged people to scour the internet for remarks celebrating the killing and to expose those who have posted them online.

The widespread and fast-moving campaign of naming-and-shaming has already resulted in countless lost jobs, professional suspensions and internal investigations, exacerbating the already fraught tensions over the shooting that exist online.…

Among those personalities have been far-right agitators like Laura Loomer and Chaya Raichik, who runs a large account on X called Libs of TikTok. Since the shooting, they and dozens of other online influencers have taken it upon themselves to recruit ordinary Americans to turn in fellow citizens for making comments about Mr. Kirk that may be nasty or disparaging, but are likely protected by the First Amendment...


[However this form of doxxing is not limited to the rightwing but is part of the leftwing playbook as well]

Left-wing activists have used similar tactics in the past to draw attention to overtly racist or anti-gay remarks online, in an effort to bring public censure to the people posting them. Right-wing activists have pushed back hard against these efforts, branding them as examples of “cancel culture.”

Teams of digital sleuths, calling themselves “Sedition Hunters,” also played a large role in identifying rioters who took part in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But the people they focused on generally appeared to be involved in criminal activity rather than constitutionally protected speech, and the information they collected was often handed over to the traditional authorities for further possible use.

In February, after news outlets identified employees of Elon Musk’s government-slashing agency, the Department of Governmental Efficiency, Ed Martin, then serving as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, promised Mr. Musk in a letterthat his office would “pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/charlie-kirk-shooting-firings-celebration.html

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Personally I find this form of doxxing and cancel culture odious whether from the left or right. I think you should be able to speak your mind online without facing the threat of losing your job so long you are not engaging in any illegal activity. I think scouring the Internet to find individuals who post incendiary, controversial or odious comments to publicity humiliate them in another forum just stifles freedom of expression as well as creates even greater divisions.

Are you even safe in sites like this where you are supposedly anonymous?

This phenomena comes from both the left and right so in a perverse way it is nonpartisan.

Are you in for or against doxxing those that disagree with you or to score political points?

I think its not the responsibility of ordinary citizens to be snitching on others, however, were kind of past that right? I mean, we will always refer back to the realtor lady who got fired because the restaurant doxxed her. I argued fervently that it was wrong for the restaurant to dox her, not defending what she did, but arguing that the restaurant was wrong for doxxing her. I was shot down by many people saying it was the restaurants right to do this, she was in a public place so she had no expectation of privacy, and her speech had consequences.

Now, normally id say that these doxxing people were wrong, but, these people are celebrating, and rubbing it in the face of people who are mourning and trying to honor kirk. The leftys should be respectful of at least that. Let me ask you, do you think someone with that kind of character should be teaching your kids, operating on you in an ER, defending you in a legal case, preparing your food?

Celebrating, dancing, and cheering someone's death is a particularly grievous thing. These people are gleeful of kirks death, joyful even, and they are openly posting these things online, and some of them are even calling for more killings. Again, do you want these people around your kids, or your food? Servicing the brakes on your car?

 

[martybegan]

So, you are now in favor of doxxing and cancel culture. Okay.

You ***** started it. Also we are only doing it for people threatening violence and mocking death.

You guys did it when people used the wrong pronouns or said "a man can't be a woman"