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If a person swats someone, that person should be charged, whether its just for wasting police time or potentially endangering the victim or whatever the charges may be, send the perp to prison! I don't think you can or should be able to take down a website for the actions of its users off of the website, though.
I'm on the fence about doxxing being illegal, especially as it usually only involves collating already publicly available material. I can certainly see the harm being done by the doxxer, but if all they are doing is revealing or collecting up information I don't know if that should be a crime, but I could be convinced.
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(Replying to PARENT post)
Kiwifarms specifically forbids doxxing, and the people targeted in your link were doxxed on a different website (doxbin). I am no fan of Kiwifarms, but it's important to keep facts straight when discussing it.
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(Replying to PARENT post)
Doxxing is a crime in some jurisdictions [1] and at least in the EU in some circumstances a violation of the GDPR so parties involved in it can be fined for that. On top of that come situations that are considered crimes across many jurisdiction (libel/defamation/insults). On top of that comes "swatting", which is a crime in even more jurisdictions [2]. What went on on Kiwifarms is going beyond the reasonable expectations on free speech - they not just enabled people to cross the thresholds of free speech, they facilitated actual legitimate crimes. [ETA:] And if that's not enough, they also kept on hosting actual terrorist manifestos [3]. Good riddance.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing#Legislation
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/cloudflare-kiwi-farms-...
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20190504114633/https://www.nzher...