PSA: Sharing that information was almost certainly a GDPR violation in the EU. It may also have been a criminal offense under German law (§126a StGB).
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Please gtfo with those nasty facts. This is Lemmy.
I strongly doubt they were banned for posting a police report.
Devil's advocate:
You can either protect everyone's privacy, or you can protect no one's.
Doxxing is a privacy issue. It's not "okay if it's someone you don't like". I'm sure if the tables were reversed and people on the right had doxxed a bunch of left-leaning people, the left would be up-in-arms about it, demanding that it be removed and for the people who posted it to be suspended. But because they're far-right, it's suddenly okay?
I hate the far-right, don't get me wrong. But get off the high-horse. Companies can either protect everyone from doxxing, or they can protect no one from doxxing. There's no in-between just because the people being doxxed are people you find repugnant.
The problem playing devil's advocate is you're defending the devil. Running to the all or nothing edge is simply an attempt to end the discussion. "If Nazis can't have privacy, nobody can." There is an in-between, and conveniently it's called moderation.
Are we equally of the opinion that hate speech should not be moderated? Are threats without action to be defended unilaterally? It's not important what the answers are, it's that there is a world in between absolutist ideals. There are alternatives. We can discuss them.
Companies are also capable of navigating this space, and should be responsible for doing so if they are entitled to their platform. The idea that their hands are tied to all or nothing is ignorant if not apologist. If the best you can do with 10's of millions of dollars is helplessness, perhaps you deserve all the criticism. The devil needs better attorneys.
Moderation and discussion are 100% the way to go. For companies to decide who they can and cant dox though seems hard. We all have something about us that others don't agree with and someone could justify you being doxed. Nazis went through the Nuremberg trials to decide their levels of Nazism and there aren't many that agree with the results. I'm not saying it's right to protect Nazi's (most deserve a punch in the fafe) but when anyone can label anyone else as a nazi, policing this is difficult.
stop using their happy little fascist platform
I knew bluesky was absolutely fucked when I check it once and it was literally giving billionaires screen time over regular users to simp for trump. X is full fash , bluesky is fash lite
Fuck bluesky.
Anyone using it over Mastodon to protest twitter is a moron.
Obay but can I use mastodon in a way that let's me choke on corporate dick? Because choking on corporate dick is kind of my favorite thing. Whole reason inhere.
I thought Mastodon was dead tbh
like when you looked into it you didn't find much you were interested in, or like the people you were interested in have left that way of interacting with the fediverse? between the threadiverse and the microblog portion of the fediverse, we are by far engaging with the less popular and populous way of interacting with the fediverse
Back to LinkedIn with you!
There's a really fucked up reason why I couldn't make a linked in account if I wanted to.
elaborate
It really is.
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