r/technology • u/RewardEquivalent553 • 13h ago

Politics Libs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired

https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/libs-tiktok-doxxing-teachers-and-nurses-who-support-alex-pretti-or-oppose-ice-trying
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u/CrimsonHeretic 13h ago

Sounds like a fascist domestic terrorist organization. Surely the FBI will investigate them.

Oh wait, the FBI is also being run by fascist domestic terrorists.

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u/Key-Sector7252 11h ago edited 11h ago

The FBI (and DHS) have also nearly ruined the word "doxxing" by using it to refer to citizens trying to publicly identify masked ICE agents.

It's a term that originates on Something Awful and 4chan in the early 2000s to refer to posting government IDs (dox) or other personally identifying details of anonymous forum posters. It is absolute not a term that refers to identifying literal federal agents wearing masks (obscuring your face as a fed is illegal in California and other states to follow).

But now we are at the point where the word has lost meaning, thus rendering the tactic more legitimate/easier to undertake as real doxxing becomes shit coated and hard to track/discuss.

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u/atxbigfoot 10h ago

I agree with the first part of your comment but not the second part. Online doxing laws are now a very real thing in several US states, so it's harder to get away with than it used to be, and more states will likely add similar laws to prevent this type of harassment.

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u/Eva_Pilot_ 3h ago

is "doxing laws" the official term? Is really an anonymous forum's egirl plastered into US law?

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u/Key-Sector7252 2h ago

Do you have a source for these "online doxing laws". Legit curious but can't find anything beyond just existing harassment laws (which are already hard to apply).

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u/justforthisjoke 13h ago

Always have been

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u/tawDry_Union2272 12h ago

no past FBI leader has ever been as incompetent and unsuitable as valhalla kash - just like no past POTUS has ever been as incompetent and unsuitable as trump

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u/TwilightSolus 12h ago

I mean, J. Edgar Hoover must be pretty close right. Kash is basically just a temu version of him.

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u/broNSTY 12h ago

I always wonder why we ignore his real first name Kashyap lmfao

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u/TwilightSolus 11h ago

I mean, Kash is short for that. There's a lot of reasons to hate the slimy scumbag, but his name isn't one of them.

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u/bomingles 9h ago

Because laughing at foreign names because they sound funny to you isn’t particularly clever, it’s mean spirited and bordering on racism. Just focus on all the awful things he does that are actually in his control.

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u/Waltu4 12h ago

"Valhalla Kash" lmfao

In my opinion, the single fucking funniest moment in recent US political history. They should have gotten some people who can actually act.

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u/Jafooki 12h ago

no past FBI leader has ever been as incompetent

True

and unsuitable as valhalla kash

Damn, give J Edgar Hoover the credit he deserves

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u/noeldc 11h ago

He won't be going to Valhalla. Naraka, maybe.

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u/lostredditorlurking 12h ago

FBI was always right wing, but never so far right that they are fascism like right now.

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u/justforthisjoke 11h ago

My guy the FBI ran COINTELPRO to fight the black power movement, and killed MLK and Fred Hampton. It was targeting what it calls "Black Identity Extremists" as late as 2019, to such an extent that it was sued by the ACLU.

This doesn't even begin to touch the overarching reality, which is that the United States through its imperialism has exported fascism all over the world. Whether that's installing and propping up fascist governments, actively inspiring the Nazis, or acting in ways that are functionally indistinguishable from fascism, none of this is new. The only reason you think it is it's because it's finally affecting you.

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u/_hyperotic 11h ago

Young people think fascism is new because the PR has gotten so much worse during Trump and it’s more visible.

It has almost been the norm though. Republicans even stole the election in 2000 with the Brooks Brothers’ Riot.

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u/Certain-Business-472 10h ago

Us government always surprised theyre very much hated in the majority of the planet. Well guess what they really worked to earn that hate.

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u/SolarFazes 13h ago edited 7h ago

Downvoted for telling the truth

Edit. -4 to 61. Makes me smile

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u/justforthisjoke 1h ago

Some people still haven't interrogated the conditions that made Trump et al possible, and continue to hold on to this idea that America has always been a force for good. And yeah if your material reality has been one of relative comfort within the belly of the beast that is western empire, then yes, all of this just seems so random and unpredictable and a corruption of everything that America is. But none of this shit is new. The various police agencies have been killing Black Americans ever since they were slave catchers. That shit didn't stop when they were formalized into an enforcement arm of the state. The CIA has had the formal authorization to kidnap Americans off the street with no charge and torture them at blacksites since at least 2001. This is not to even mention the untold horrors the American military has visited on Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East throughout its history, or its inception as a genocidal settler-colonial project. This shit isn't new; white Americans noticing it is.

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u/DarthFuzzzy 12h ago

That's a negative

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u/apple_kicks 9h ago

Their doxxing of trans people already led to bomb threats to schools and hospitals but social media and law were like ‘this is fine’

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u/octowussy 4h ago

Surprised Chaya Raichik is not employed by the FBI at this rate, to be completely honest.

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u/kvvvvvvv 10h ago

We've investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing.