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Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing?
An anonymous reader writes: I've been doxxed on a popular forum, by one of the moderators no less. The forum owner doesn't care, the hosting company doesn't care. I'm getting bombarded by email and social media, even via GitHub. How does a person recover from this? I don't want to create a whole new identity or shut down all my web sites, social media etc. Can't really change my real name either, at least not without an incredible amount of hassle. The police don't care, and since the forum owner is on the other side of the world it's unlikely there could be any legal consequences, and even if they were they would probably only draw more attention to me. I've tried to clean up Google's search results about me. How do I fix this? What does a fix even look like?
The police don't care,
If you want to get the police to do anything in this world, don't contact them yourself, have your lawyer contact them.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Start Here. Unfortunately there's really not much you can do if the webmaster doesn't care other than maybe try to go over their head somewhere in that chain.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
That's the only real solution. All of those people who are hassling you now, will be hassling somebody else in the future. I hope that the "popular forum" you mention isn't something that's vital to your life; if it isn't then abandon it. If it is, it's a more interesting question.
If you need to continue to participate in that forum, I would suggest you just be yourself. Say what you believe, and don't get too fussy about it.
I've heard from a lot of women who participate in public fora that this kind of abuse is not just commonplace, it's ubiquitous. You might also think of the 34,000,000 people doxxed last month. It's just a common thing, it's going to happen to everybody sooner or later.
I love Mondays. On a Monday, anything is possible.
Probably Something Awful. They have a forum dedicated to "doxxing" people, mostly "for fun," sometimes because they don't meet the crazy standards of the left-wing SJWs that run that site. Really all you need to know about Something Awful was that it became so toxic that 4-chan was created to escape it.
Wait a couple of weeks for the internet's ADHD to kick in and everyone to move on to something else. Problem solved.
Get a google voice number. Then follow the instructions on google voice to change the voice mail on your real phone to use google voice instead. Start blocking numbers. A block on google voice plays the not in service tone to anyone you have blocked.
In the future, pass out your google voice number. Then you'll not only be able to trivially block voice mail but the entire call itself.
Yep, Zoe Quinn originally was a helldump poster (their doxing board) over at SA.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
OP here. The host us in the US but doesn't take much interest. They ignore TOS violations like the prohibition on hacking and copyright infringement. It's Bluehost, FWIW.
What steps have you taken with Bluehost? As someone who works there, I'm pretty sure we don't ignore TOS violations...
She posted on a board on which people called out others' bad behavior online. Doxxing was against that board's rules. Calling for online-only raids on other sites was against their rules, as I recall. That was around 2004, so it's hardly representative of her current behavior.
Do at least a modicum of research before repeating lies, please.
Said board also bragged about harassing people, including proudly announcing they had one "confirmed kill" -- they were mentioned in someone's suicide note, which they took as a badge of honor. And Zoe Quinn bragged about being part of that community -- until she decided to start playing the Feminist Victim card.
But remember, poor widdle Zoe Quinn is an innocent pure princess and you should give her patreon funbux, plz. And ignore that nasty man she admitted to raping 5 times, he's just a mean old jilted ex.
Oh and definitely ignore that time Zoe and her friend, DailyKOS Intern Margaret Pless swatted a free speech lawyer who had the wrong politics. Remember: Zoe Quinn is a feminist and a girl -- ON THE INTERNET -- which means she's an innocent victim and should be coddled no matter how vile she acts. I mean, pure and innocent. Not vile. Girls can't be vile, that would be as if they were human beings and capable of fallibility -- or responsible for their own actions.
And besides, that Cernovich guy's a conservative, he probably has bad thoughts that make it ok to try to have him killed by the police.
Posting as AC because when you talk about Zoe Quinn, her psychotic supporters (who are currently busy defending Sarah Nyberg, a self admitted pedophile and child pornography trafficker) tend to doxx you, swatt you, and send dead animals to your house. Then act like they never did nuthin' but by god you're evil so you did deserve what they didn't do, and besides, didn't you know white men are the cause of all the evil in the world?