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So if I get this correct; this person wrote a program to gather information about individuals that may or may not be responsible for things related to the government agency and published that list with the intent that people who are angry about that should do what exactly? Contact them? Threat them? Stalk them? I see no other possible outcome of this action.

Either you:

1. Don't care

2. Use this information in a bad way, like harassing or stalking the individuals that are doing their job (I'm assuming).

I don't understand people who do this kind of things and also expect support and sympathy. You have none from me at least. It is great that Medium and Github removes such databases to protect individuals that probably are innocent.

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Sadly I think this is the new way of doing things. It gets more and more acceptable to crucify people using social media. But at the same time I don't agree with your conclusion that this makes it right for Medium and Github to remove this. They should keep out of the judging/censoring business. Steam is sadly the only good example of how it should be done at the moment.

Edit: Because really otherwise they should remove the information from LinkedIn (or make it non-searchable) which also makes it very easy to get and they don't do that.

Yes I agree with you that sadly this is the way people do stuff today. An allegation is more important than truth it seems sometimes.

That said, we must protect people that are having their information leaked with a nefarious intent. In Sweden for example, you can take this information find out their addresses and social security numbers since all of this is basically public information.

Github and Medium simply don't want their platforms to be used to harass and stalk people, which is a real problem that anyone with experience can attest to.

I support the people who do these things, as I think they should live in the same amount of fear as those that they unfairly persecute. They are all complicit in the acts of violence and oppression against innocent civilians. The capitalist system, especially in the USA is designed to oppress the poor and protect the rich. It does this through the use of agencies like ICE. Pretend it's not true, but the facts over the past century overwhelmingly speak for themselves.

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