"Doxing" in 2025

[Glowie]

Dachsing, as in Dachshund.

Everyone loves a wiener dog:

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Chinese call it dinner

 

[3deadniggers]

This isn't the early 2000's anymore- the internet, and the United States in general now are infinitely shittier places now. Just forbit the use of anything that could be construed as dox or "personal information" (regardless as to how publicly available it might be) and focus discussion of lolcows and individuals of interest to gossip and shitposting. How you define and enforce that is outside my knowledge on how to enforce as I have never been a janny or website owner, but I would say it's a warranted discussion if Null is intent on making Lolcow LLC his lifetime career company.

I agree with a lot of your post. You can't post someone's address in a thread and expect anything good to come from it. Null is worried about legal terminology while threads like Boogie2988 have his dox in the opener and every 3rd post is wishing for his death. It doesn't matter how cute you get. If you post someone's address and have posters calling for blood you're going to look bad in the eyes of the law. You can't talk your way out of a cyber crime by using different slang for it.

The problem with any euphemism that Josh has proposed is that, to me, it comes off as exactly what it is: a euphemism. We don't want to be associated with the term "dox", so we're inventing some stupid new name for the same activity. It doesn't matter that the actual practice of "doxing" is just compiling public information--to outsiders it still looks bad, like we have something to hide. "Sunshining" and "unmasking" sound terrible to me for this reason. Besides, dox works as a verb or a noun, while these are only verbs; are we gonna ask if someone's mask-off is available somewhere? "Is Keffals out in the sun in his thread?"

"Documenting" is the right term. That's all it is. If someone has been documented on KF, we know what it means, and it doesn't come across like a euphemism for something illegal in Australia. It's a literal description of the activity.

Null fucked up hard making this post because it's now evident he wants to rebrand doxing to something else. Any lawyer with 2 working eyes can see this post and say "Your honour, this is Mr. Moon saying they should replace the word dox with unmasking. He is aware every use of unmasking really means doxxing and told his users to do this". There is no way around that so any language policing enforced from on high does nothing to change the situation. It makes it worse because then the admins look like they're trying to hide crimes through word play.

 

[line drying]

De-anonymize is good, unmasking is ironically hilarious, but I propose "Fong" - Fonging, to Fong, Fonged - as an alternative.

Back in the day, people used to refer to "fisking" an article to mean going through it to point out all the factual errors, lies, biases, distortions, etc. Particularly in reference to articles about the Middle East. In "honour" of the shit bag lying corrupt journalist Robert Fisk.

For this reason, I like "fonging", but I don't think it will catch on.

 

[Glowie]

Problem arises how to apply this this to old posts?

 

[Smar Mijou]

Also, any inch given to journoscum or tranny-jannies is a victory in their eyes. And Candoxx Owens doesn't make sense if we lose the meaning of the word.

It's not a direct replacement but "powerword" is a good word.

Nah, that one's already used when naming the Jew, or finding the "deadname" of a troon when they're doxxxxxxxxxxxxxed. Oh shit, I did it again.

 

[Manimal House]

"Your honour, this is Mr. Moon saying they should replace the word dox with unmasking. He is aware every use of unmasking really means doxxing and told his users to do this".

Defense attorney: "Your honor, the replacement of the word dox was implemented by Mr. Moon due to the definition change of the word dox. The new definition not only states that the act is used with the intent to threaten another person, it states that it is an act that has been forbidden by users on Mr. Moon's website since before the definition was changed, therefore forcing the users to no longer use the word."

I know semantics are retarded and people will see right through word use changes, but it still fucking works. It's how hiring managers get away with only hiring one type of group for a compnay prejudicially by calling it 'positive discrimintation' or 'affirmative action'.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Phonebooking sounds like murder by blunt paper bound object.
I like it.

Take it you've never been "interviewed" by the phone book then?
cops used to smack you around with it. Didn't leave a mark and hurt like fucking hell.

I'm going to bring back the old ip2 thread term that was coined by @shawnphase

uhh "deets" has been in continued use since before this guy was in he's dads bag

 

[ferrari superamerica]

Firstly, just because something is legal, does not make it fine.
Secondly, people don't like having their privacy broken.
Thirdly, while Kiwi is good, we need to make a guide for cow how to deal with weens, swatting and having one's family ridiculed online.

 

[Canoodler]

Just call it 'niggering'. There, now no will be willing to steal the word and cause it to take on a bad connotation.

 

[Smithfield Ham]

I don't think there's much point in trying to find a new term. I think now that it's been going on long enough, lawmakers may catch up and things like posting addresses/phone numbers publicly without permission will become illegal. But that's just baseless speculation that could be absolutely wrong.

 

[Großmann]

Would this be something a word filter might be a good idea for?

Personally I like 411 myself.

Word filters would have the opposite effect. Remember how well some people took to “exceptional individual” or “onions/basedboy” on 4chan?

What about "Farming"

I think that using novel terms would enable journos and opponents to KF to twist the meaning for those who aren’t in the know. Something like “phonebooking,” where the meaning is evident, works better.

 

[Raven of the Burning God]

I like this. It’s on the nose and in video games, it has always meant to gather a bunch of something.

We want.... infarmation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv813f2Xtrg

 

[*Grunts Softly*]

detective work

 

[IrishGuy088]

I really like phonebooked or journo'd or some sort of bastardization of the word "journalist", as the journos are absolutely the worst and most hypocritical about this.

 

[Glowie]

Also, any inch given to journoscum or tranny-jannies is a victory in their eyes. And Candoxx Owens doesn't make sense if we lose the meaning of the word.

Null tried to get the point he could be sued at any point, prompting other shit for brain retards to follow script

 

[Maverick Vile]

I like phonebooking. Ideally, any replacement term should focus on the fact that corporations are allowed to buy and sell your data. It's always burned my ass that the ghouls that run everything are allowed to harvest your data to sell it to pajeets so they can call you at 3 in the morning and try to convince you your car's extended warranty expired, but someone posting your address on a gossip forum to confirm your identity is "harassment."

 

[NSA Intern]

Deanonymize has the best feel.

 

[New & Improved Username]

I really hate that another perfectly serviceable word has been ruined by faggots.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

This is gonna end up in an euphemism treadmill.

• Doxing now means harassment, let's use unmasking instead.
• Unmasking now means doxing, let's use infodumping instead.
• Infodumping now means unmasking, let's use receipts instead.

You get the point.

Edited to add that if we're gonna go along with this, I agree with @Fake Steve Franssen's suggestions. Archiving, researching and documenting sound much more neutral and natural than that list.

 

[mailfrawd]

My personal preference aside in regards to what vernacular we should adopt, I agree with several other members here that it has less to do with any specific term and is more with what could be interpreted as running afoul of the wave of new "anti-doxing" legislation that's been enacted across multiple US jurisdictions. As I understand it, Kiwifarms has always been a site that complies with US laws and regulations, so our users should make themselves aware of what's going on around the country. Here are some notable examples, and the list below continues to grow:

• California - California Penal Code 653.2 (PC)
• Illinois - Public Act 103-0439
• Washington - RCW 4.24.792 Unauthorized publication of personal identifying information. (Page 57+)
• Nevada - ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 296
• Nebraska - LEGISLATIVE BILL 227
• Colorado - SB22-171 (only applies to a "protected" class of people)
• Oklahoma - Bill 1643 (only applies to peace officers and elected officials, lol, rules for me, not for thee)
• Texas - Sec. 42.074 (why this is so close to the "Abuse of Corpse" legislation is something I'll leave for you to decide)
• Arizona - HB 2502
• Virginia - § 18.2-186.4. Use of a person's identity with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass; penalty
• Oregon - HB 4156 (expands the definition of stalking to include "doxing" - link)
• Utah - S.B. 227

Most of this legislation is relatively new (enacted within the last five years). As I'm sure everyone here is aware, Josh is not immune to frivolous lawsuits. Even though it's unlikely that he'll have a judgment against him, we all know that the process is the punishment.