Worse, given the degree of sycophancy in the population, there's always a risk of any viral meme resulting in what happened with King Henry II of England saying "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"[0] (the priest, Thomas Becket, was killed).
[0] or whatever it was in the original, which might have been Latin or Anglo-Norman but even if it had been Early Middle English, that's pretty much incomprehensible to modern speakers, as it looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_and_the_Nightingale
And you know what? Calling for someone's murder can already be a crime, if it's a plausible threat, that's not what doxxing is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
What meaning are people expected to infer, when a rich and powerful man publishes someone's name and address without other context? "This person is great"? "I am here"? The absence of context is going to be interpreted as every possible context, including as a call to action.
> Sen. Floyd Prozanski, a Eugene Democrat and prosecutor, said it’s already a crime to threaten serious physical harm and alarm to others through the state’s harassment statute or to incessantly harass a person by calling them, as laid out in the state’s telephonic harassment law. What Senate Bill 1121 does is make it a crime for the person who encourages others to do that harm through doxxing, Prozanski said.
IMO doxxing is a TOS issue for platforms to manage, not something that requires legislation. Because again, putting aside the historical interpretation of Becket's murder, it didn't involve doxxing, and what it did involve would already be criminal today.
tl;dr The solution to lax moderation by incompetent and greedy companies is not to shift the burden onto the taxpayer and over-burdened legal system, with a callous disregard for existing law.
You may be surprised by my thinking. I'm expecting famine in the US in 2 years, if too many people are purged for saying "no" to Trump.
I have no idea if too many people will get purged. Everything's a bit crazy now.
> IMO doxxing is a TOS issue for platforms to manage, not something that requires legislation.
Musk owns the platform. What stops him?