[ZebusJesus]

This is how it is done, the hacker ‘Martha Root’ dressed as the pink power ranger and hacked white supremacist dating sites, stole their data, took down their sites and then proceeded to DOX members by making a map with members locations and information around the world.

[thefz]

While no one likes racists:

A crime against someone you disagree with is still a crime.

A crime against someone you despise is still a crime.

A crime against someone who commits a crime is still a crime.

So good intent, very, very bad execution, IMO.

[immibis]

Here we see an example of the law-and-order personality type, where the most important thing is to follow the law.

[tcfhgj]

A act against someone random may be a crime. The same against someone committing a crime, may not be a crime.

[ThrowawayR2]

You do understand that if their side does the same, you won't have any kind of moral high ground to stand on because you have already condoned stooping to their level?

[King-Aaron]

"Their side" absolutely does this continuously, and is one of the reasons early facebook allowed people to use pseudonyms etc.

Only one side of the political spectrum routinely resorts to malicious/vexatious behaviour as their modus operandi.

[subdude]

I think the side that isn’t full of white supremacists would have the moral high ground by default.

[ceejayoz]

Do you imagine white supremacists don't currently dox people?

[mc3301]

something something, "If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them," something something

[Terr_]

> won't have any kind of moral high ground

You're exaggerating. Yes, it gives up the "doxxing not OK", but there will often remain a large moral difference between "Alice was accurately doxxed as KKK/Nazi" versus "Bob was accurately doxxed as $X."

There are very few $X which are both worse, plausible, and "the other side."

We also need to ask who is going to care or be convinced. Orwell's The Party does not care about ethical or moral consistency, only power.

[vekntksijdhric]

right, because being a anti-white supremacists is the same as being a white supremacist....

[clydethefrog]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515191

[immibis]

When Batman corners the Joker it's good. When the Joker corners Batman it's bad.

[croes]

Define doing the same?

Exposing racism? Where is the moral problem?

This isn’t exposing people for being white but for being supremacists.

If they also expose something of the same kund of wrong I see no problem, everything I wouldn’t call doing the same.

That’s like comparing police arresting people with criminals kidnapping people, both do kind of the same: imprison people.

[protocolture]

Weird moral equivocation. Nazis declare themselves enemies of mankind. They otherise themselves with their beliefs. It should be legal to stone them in the streets as non humans.

If "Their Side" did the same to innocent people who hadn't declared they are everyone's enemies its a completely different scenario.

[BigTTYGothGF]

What do you mean "if"? I've had multiple friends driven off the internet by right-wing doxxers.

[strbean]

How dare the US government, which executes people, tell me that I don't get to murder at will? Where is their moral high ground? /s