Is Doxing a Free Speech Issue?

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There are many, many cases reported of police essentially ignoring claims of harassment over the internet. The notable exception is a case where police pressed charges far beyond the pale when police of a town, in general, were the target of "threats".

 

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I don't think "many" counts toward a substantiated claim.

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It's not that I think you are wrong, it's just that I'll hold my opinion of the efficacy of police in cyber-crimes until I get a better picture than just your off-the-cuff opinion (no offense intended, but that is what you've put forth so far).

There is no way to judge such a thing without taking into account the media's effect on what news we read.

After a widely-publicized train crash, the news will be rife with every train crash in the worlds for several weeks. One might become alrmed at such a rash of crashes. But no, the apparent upsurge is simply an artifact of the news process.

Objectively - you don't know, and I don't know just how seriously they take cyber-crimes.

 

I know that they do not take it seriously enough. There are far too many stories of police ignoring online harassment.

But don't worry: as a white man, you'll probably never have to face it. So just ignore the problem.

 

Ad hom.

Pity. Invalidates everything you've said.

 

I don't believe an anti-bullying law has passed through congress: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...vist-named-worlds-ugliest-woman-a6690781.html

The film follows Ms Velasquez up until the moment her TED talk made her internationally famous and documents her fight to have the first federal anti-bullying bill passed by Congress.

 

The case posted by rpenner ( http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dennis_Markuze ) documents over 20 years of harassment from one individual. The victims would seem to be fairly high profile and articulate. While it is possible that an inarticulate non-entity like myself might receive more assistance I guess (without proof) that this is highly unlikely.

 

First, that wasn't an ad hominem. I was pointing out something relevant to your position.

Second, the fact that someone makes and ad hominem does not invalidate everything that they said. That is a fallacy.

I'm sorry that you don't like to think that police are victim to the systemic influences in the wider culture. I'm sorry that you don't like to think about the us-vs-them mentality that far too many police officers have. I'm glad that you won't be victim to a lot of it; at least you have that.