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“Ex-Mormons responded in droves to dump their contact lists of current Mormons. By the end of the first day his ad target list had grown from 30 to 397”

So now people get doxxed by friends and family. Imagine someone pretending to do this to influence someone in one direction, but then using it for any other reason. Who can say none of their friends would be tricked?

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Not saying that any of this was the right response for them to take but many of these people were recently mormon and therefor had the working that the mormon church uses still fresh in their minds.

The mormon church constantly asks its members to tell the missionaries their non-mormon friends names, phone numbers, and addresses so missionaries can visit and try to convert them. While we see things from the technology side, the mormon church has done the sneaker-net version of the same thing for a very long time.

In my observation, ex-Mormons are particularly vindictive, even by normal Christian atheist standards.

Similar to how current Mormons are?

Maybe? It might also depend on whether or not they are from Utah/Southern Idaho, because the California mormons I know are pretty laid back. In any event defining one's identity in terms of a negation observably warps one's outlook, and I've never seen it be positive.

Mormons obviously believe some pretty strange things, but they also tend to live pretty admirable lives, with a strong focus on community, family, charitable giving, and more.

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