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Truck doxxer maybe won't be arrested, but a defamation/libel civil case is likely. Especially with now CEOs calling for blacklisting. Ones reputation can be totally destroyed being falsely accused.

Emotions are high right now, but destroying more innocent lives isn't the answer.

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Being 100% factually accurate in your statements is an airtight defense against libel in the USA.

I think you missed the part about a student no longer attending Harvard nor being part of the organization.

Great! If you read the article instead of trying to incite a flame war you would know that they have already doxxed people falsely, and so your statement doesn’t apply at all.

It’s also an anonymous source to a student newspaper. I wouldn’t exactly hold them to the highest editorial standard. They just they confirmed they saw emails which anyone could have sent. Did they look at the message headers or request IPs from the provider.

> It’s also an anonymous source to a student newspaper. I wouldn’t exactly hold them to the highest editorial standard.

It’s the Harvard Crimson, not Boondook High Weekly. I would be incredibly surprised if their editors are not graduating and entering the countries top newspapers every year.

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