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[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world -5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but you really can't dox people even if it seems like the moral thing to do. It wasn't any decision made outside the company, it was made by reddit because it was walking a fine line with their policies.

I'm going entirely off theory but there is a likely chance the people who got hired to be a minion had no idea the parameters of the job. I've gone thru the government job listings and they will tell you only so much about the position. What is required to qualify for the job, what tasks will be done in the job but beyond that, they aren't going to tell you what the grand scheme of the position is. So to me, if any of that is true, then they are trying to post the identities of people who may be appalled by what their job is but don't have the means to step down without having other income already lined up.

I'm not saying anything about what musk is doing is right. I'm just saying, there should be action taken to prevent the identities of people being posted on the internet for all to see.

Dont forget, reddit has literally falsely identifyied an innocent man who committed suicide as being the Boston bomber. Creating an absolute hell for the grieving family who thought their son was missing only to find out he committed suicide before the boston bombing happened. They only found out from the reddit manhunt to dox an innocent person.

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I was under the impression it was six people that were DOGE henchmen. They absolutely knew what the job was so I don't know what you're on about. Their names should absolutely be public knowledge.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

No shit. Yeah you're prolly right then.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And frankly, in any case, posting someone's name online in correlation to a public job isn't doxxing.

Too many people have gone 'posting anything online about anyone is doxxing!' which is just stupid.

If you work for the government, then yes, your name is (unless you're doing some classified shit) is public. So is/was your salary.

Don't want your shit public, don't work for the public. Very simple.

[–] CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Can confirm. Am public employee. My shit is public.