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[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Last week, the previously unknown individual behind a popular neo-Nazi web comic known as Stonetoss was identified on Twitter/X by antifascist researchers from the Anonymous Comrades Collective. This was followed by a concentrated campaign by Twitter/X staff to suppress any post on the website that revealed the alleged name of Stonetoss— with journalists, researchers, and the antifascist collective themselves all being targeted with suspensions and account locks. The campaign was personally requested by Stonetoss to Twitter/X owner Elon Musk, who has been under fire as of late for positively engaging with and defending countless other neo-Nazi accounts as well.

I can see how this might violate some policy against doxxing individuals, but it's remarkable how consistently Elon Musk just happens to find himself defending neo-Nazis while silencing the left.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Right-wing cancel culture at its finest

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to have a policy against doxxing on online spaces. As long as it is enforced consistently.

I don’t use or follow the details of Twitter nonsense very closely so I have no idea if this is the case.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Not very surprising. I have no idea why their user base hasn’t left yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

When a consistent enforcement of a policy protects neo nazis the policy needs to get evaluated tho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Open to that discussion but doxxing can be dangerous for some people more than others. Overall I see more downside than upside on large platforms. If it is allowed, I would expect more innocents/good people to be harmed than neonazis. And as we can see here, there are plenty of other spaces for this type of information to be shared.

Of course, since Elon Musk decides their policies and we don’t, it’s a bit of a moot point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Absolutely any policy that protects people can protect neo nazis. If a platform wants someone gone for being a dickwad, they can just ban them (not that that's gonna happen to nazis on twitter). Questioning sensible rules because they happen to protect bad people sometimes is some dystopian shit. It's the same line of argument as wanting to ban e2e encryption to scan messages for csam.

Doxxing is a crime in some places, only selectively enforcing that would be quite the problem.