Doxxing

Doxxing is a crime in Malaysia, except for when it targets the LGTBQ community thumbnail
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Doxxing is a crime in Malaysia, except for when it targets the LGTBQ community

A couple of days ago, a tweet about a Malaysian transgender man peforming the Umrah in Saudi Arabia went viral, with the person who wrote it condemning the man’s actions as an insult to Islam.  The tweet thread included a picture of the man, who is known as ‘Ayid’ on social media, as well as…

Doxxing on campus: How BDS tensions at Harvard became personal thumbnail
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Doxxing on campus: How BDS tensions at Harvard became personal

(RNS) — Cyber harassment is illegal across most of the United States and explicitly banned on page 50 of the Harvard College handbook. But despite its prohibition, an anonymous Instagram profile recently “doxxed” Harvard students and faculty — revealed contacts and other personal information online to promote harassment — in apparent retribution for their positions…