Why do all alternatives for "dox" sound lame and gay?

[The News Crews]

Every time I use them it feels like I'm using algospeak

 

[Storytime]

because they are lame and gay

 

[Haloperidol]

I actually like ‘phonebooking’ a lot, I’m lame and gay though.

 

[dick brain]

I like journalism because it draws attention to the fact that journalists do the exact same thing we do and puts the onus on them to try to argue otherwise.

Jism for short.

 

[DankSmoker]

I'm going to start calling it targeted harassment or saying they're on the rape list.

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

Because "dox" has been established lexicon for decades and when you put in effort to change any sort of vernacular it inevitably comes off as contrived and gay.
Imagine we all got together and decided we'd invent a new word for "lolcow" that we'd try to make each other use.

 

[Johnathan Readit]

I'm going to start calling it targeted harassment or saying they're on the rape list.

That'd be awkward when I'm trying to explain the difference between that and my actual rape list.

 

[Endless Torment]

Because it's retarded newspeak like unalive and the fact anyone thinks a court would entertain the notion that it isn't doxing because people here call it phonebooking now are fucking retarded,

 

[ConsentAccidentVictimNo98]

Oh you think going through a phonebook is lame and gay?

 

[PonderosaPete]

Since we don't use phone books anymore the word is free use.

 

[Nicholas Gur]

I think we should return to the root. It sounds even more threatening if you document someone.

 

[We Are The Witches]

Not really if you are "documenting" someone, AKA releasing their docs.

 

[Forever A Loner]

the future is lame and gay

 

[El Goblina]

dox -> documenting -> investigative journalism

but "phonebooking" is the best alternative, yes it's more awkward, but given the legal baggage that "dox" has picked up, "phonebooking" captures the mundanity of the average "dox"

 

[MoffAlbert]

It is. It's like when Youtubers try to side step saying rape by saying "S.A." instead. It's cringe, gay, and only sets the example that language can and will be policed in the future. No matter how "free" of a website you think you're on, goalposts are being moved. And it's sad.

 

[McMitch]

dox -> documenting -> investigative journalism

but "phonebooking" is the best alternative, yes it's more awkward, but given the legal baggage that "dox" has picked up, "phonebooking" captures the mundanity of the average "dox"

Which is entirely the point. The push currently is to associate “doxing” as something illegal and a separate course of action, even though it’s not, in the hopes that ignorant people in power will put pressure on those diametrically opposed to themselves. This is relatively easy to do, because the population at large was not involved in the etymological evolution of the word, as evident with the two-x “doxx.” “Phonebooking” was chosen to associate the act of de-anonymizing someone through his own failure to properly maintain anonymity with a concept that the general populous understands as legal.

 

[Kim]

Because they are doupleplus ungood, just like all newspeak.

 

[El Goblina]

the two-x “doxx.”

I refuse to accept the validity of the word "dox" with two Xs. https://stallman.org/doxing.html

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

this is a lame and gay website

 

[Le b0wski]

I feel like this post is just a trap to get people to admit to being lame and gay.