Letting retarded people win is retarded, but unfortunately dox is now a legal term. So the retards went crying to the government and the government actually listened. Accept your big Fell For It Again award and enjoy the word filter.
I don't know. I feel like "phonebooking" or "whitepaging", while they accurately convey what's going on and why it shouldn't be illegal (ie., all the information involved is obtainable through public sources already, so any effort to outlaw compiling it would be absurd), they're unique jargon that would be easy to throw on the euphemism treadmill. I prefer just using normal terms to describe what you're doing, since that's harder to turn into a scary phrase for a newspaper headline. "Deanonymizing" is probably my preferred term, because it conveys an intent that is legally innocent and morally neutral.
I agree people should use more restraint on it, collecting info purely to prove you can is kind of cringe, and sets an adverserial tone when the goal should be mirth. I only post things I find if they're funny, or add to the narrative of the cow in some significant way, there's no real reason to post what specific house they live in or whatever unless it's amusing they live in a shithole while bragging about living in a mansion like when Dick had an Opsec Accident. I think that should be left up to users though.
