YearOfTheCommieDesktop,

Seems like a real mixed bag, leaning towards a negative because it requires a civil lawsuit. On one hand sure, good, you can sue harassers at the source. On the other hand how many nasty things like neo-nazi group membership are brought to light through doxxing and will also become illegal. and since it requires you bring suit, this will protect the people with more money/resources more often than not.

keepcarrot,

Or people who just happen not to be in/around Illinois

library_napper,
@library_napper@monyet.cc avatar

Men, doxxing is a valid tactic to use against fascists

CookieJarObserver,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

How was that not possible before?

BrikoX,
@BrikoX@lemmy.zip avatar

Ask US Congress. They can’t be bothered to pass federal law.

CookieJarObserver,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

For real? Bruh privacy isn’t a thing in murica… So by law its allowed to basically leak all private Information? Someone should do that to your politicians, they’ll happily i make it illigal…

BrikoX,
@BrikoX@lemmy.zip avatar

John Oliver has a skit about it, where at the end he exposes some info about lawmakers.

FARTYSHARTBLAST,
@FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social avatar

You don't need a federal law to sue someone. You can sue anybody for literally any reason.

Doesn't mean it will be successful of course, and if it's frivolous, you'll probably have to pay court costs and for the defense lawyers, but you can totally sue pretty much anybody for any reason at least in America.

BrikoX,
@BrikoX@lemmy.zip avatar

Sure, but it’s one thing to try to apply general law that might fit your situation and another thing to have specific law with it’s own standard that you can rely on.

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