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It’s not specifically far-right thing. The left are snitching and doxing people for the last decade if not longer.

Not sure if you have read whole comment before posting this...

Yes it was common from every corner before. However now, it is encouraged from the governments. That means any laws that could help from cyber- or any other form of bullying will disappear. No matter how one think it was weak in practice, freedom of expression is going disappear completely.

Eh. Here we had some leftists in previous government. They had fancy idea to make hate speech an administrative offense. Because apparently penal offense process was too complex so they couldn’t trial as many people for online comments as they wished.

On top of that, they tried to change defamation law to include not only factually wrong information, but also make it a libel if the person felt like it was offensive.

Thankfully neither of above passed. Especially since we have a different crop of lunatics now who would be happy to abuse above laws…

The tactic become normalized amongst the extremes of both sides. “ 5% of the wizards casting 85% of the spells.”

PyCon was the turning point. I used to have accounts under my real name in Slashdot etc. before then.

TBF the individual at the center of it did suffer consequences. They were fired and struggled to find employment after the fact, and PyCon updated their attendee rules to include a clause on public shaming.

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