I never quite understood this. Several posts with DOXing stay up and are never removed. Isn't it hard for mods to see when a user is trying to damage someone's reputation with baseless accusations and when it's actually information to built up a scam accusation case? But even if it's the later, why should a forum indexed by search engines and well ranked in terms of SEO allow that? Is bitcointalk.org encouraging mob justice? Is the forum Satoshi created for discussion about bitcoin to take place in endorsing taking conflicts about an e-currency into real life, perhaps even with violence and life ruining tactics (that could even target the false person)? I'm sure you realize allowing such a thing can be abused by people with very, very bad intentions.

This forum should have a zero tolerance policy against this. Besides, it's even against google's policy to allow such a thing. 8chan was briefly de-listed from google for not following it. If Theymos cares about ad revenue and the future of this forum he should really consider this.

Because these forums don't care about doxxing, unless it's posting Theymos' dox.

A dox is just an aggregation of publicly available information and as such not a violation of any rights. Theymos said in the past that he is strongly against e.g. the release of social security numbers and will go against that.

It doesn't say that in the article. Clearly it says:


The actual answer is that they were removed for hosting CP:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3gs638/censorship_8chan_removed_from_google_search/

I don't know of any website that was delisted from Google for simply hosting dox.


It doesn't say that either. What you should have linked is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten

Google will remove pages that contain certain personal info like SSN's. They will not take down a dox that is just a persons name, phone number, dob and address. Trust me many people have tried.

Personally I think doxing is a last resort, and that the threat of doxing someone is usually worse than the actual act. Typically if you let the person know that you have their dox that will stop the problem right there and you won't need to post the dox unless the problem continues. I don't think it should be outright "banned", but I certainly do not like that people are doxxing others over small personal matters. Thats totally not cool and not even effective at all. You should try to resolve the situation in other ways before resorting to doxxing.

Isn't Google more flexible with forums/social media and other sites based on user generated content? The most that will happen is that they'll stop linking to the particular thread where the defamation, hate speech, or impersonation is happening.

I think the risk of being permanently de-listed from Google is very low. It's not a factor that should influence any decision or change in forum policy here.

I don't know why it's allowed to release someone's personal information on the forum (though Badbear and Theymos have criticized this). Even members threaten other members out here like personal threats to their life and that's as well considered 'freedom of speech'. If this way someone is harmed in their personal life, it won't be a good thing for this forum. Doxing should be banned IMO.

Thanks for your input Cobra. We don't get a chance to hear from you that often so I believe that your presence highlights the importance of the issue.