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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?

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  1. Re: Police? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It was reddit obviously. When you side with #gamergate expect SJW asshole to dox you.

  2. Re: Police? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are you neckbeards STILL so butthurt about being called out for your misogyny? FFS, literally nobody else on the planet gives a crap whatsoever.

  3. Re:"popular forum" by dhasenan · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.