All The Karens, A Sad Commentary On Doxxing

A brief history of doxxing.

Recording the misdeeds of others is an offspring of doxxing. Online vigilantism, or doxxing, evolved from hacker culture’s propensity for dumping identifying documents, aka, docs. You see where that’s going. Anyway, because hackers prize anonymity, the revelation of a person’s identity was considered the worst punishment imaginable.

Since those early days of doxxing, the objective has morphed. Revealing a person’s identity has become a mechanism for outing political extremists. The…