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Comment by cairo_x | Hacker News Reader

There was no doxxing suggested. The original tweet says it all with it's last word: RELATIONSHIPS. Later tweets go on to explain what they mean by relationships (lines).

Scraping the bottom of the barrel with one lamely misinterpret tweet simply makes it clear who is desperate to discredit wikileaks by any means possible.

You can do better than this -- can't you?

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No they did not suggest doxxing, and yes the information they want to aggregate is public, but that is not the point. The point is that they want to build a tool which will primarily be used for doxxing by random internet users.

Also, discrediting WikiLeaks doesn't serve me personally – I've never said anything against them publicly until today, and I used to be an avid supporter.

However, if you read their support Twitter account they are doing a good enough job of discrediting themselves. Go read through their twitter account, it reads like Donald Trump's:

- https://twitter.com/WLTaskForce/status/817446026944643076 - https://twitter.com/WLTaskForce/status/817435562109968384 - https://twitter.com/WLTaskForce/status/817470461529427968

The only reason its read like Trump is that they both say the media is dishonest, which has been proven repeatedly all the way from dnc leaks about rigging against bernie.

Also public information and network of influences are all common strategies that were used for prevent sopa and other insane bills. So I dont really see the problem there.

How can internet users use a single vector between two twitter accounts to doxx someone!? HOW!? It's like you're -- I don't know -- deliberately misinterpreting the entire thing for some reason? Makes you more Trump-like than anything you can point to in those tweets.

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