doxing
- noun
- /ˈdɒksɪŋ/
- Offensive
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doxing
- Think of it like doxing; you expose your family.
- doxing and harassment
Originally I thought that doxing was illegal, right?
- Originally I thought that doxing was illegal, right?
- OK, it goes without saying doxing is bad.
Examples
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I think social media sites should also, you know, be very cognizant of letting people, I mean, they have policies against harassment, doxing, revenge porn.
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Didn't you just tweet that doxing is against Twitter rules and Elon blocked him, didn't ban him.
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OK, it goes without saying doxing is bad.
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Originally I thought that doxing was illegal, right?
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He's he's D platform folks who say that they're doxing him, which he's he's has a very expansive view of what doxing means.
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Melissa fails to mention her own very long history of serial stalking and harassment, including DOXing, publishing pics of people's families (including mine), calling people's employers attempting to get them fired, tweeting email addresses and phone numbers, and the list goes on.
Blog text (22) -
The act of doxing involves publishing private information online with the intent to harm someone.
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Revealing personal details without consent is a dangerous form of doxing that can lead to serious harassment.
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Many social media sites strictly prohibit doxing to safeguard the privacy of their users.
Antonyms
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Morphology
doxing = dox (transparent) = dox + ing
Formed productively from the verb 'dox' with the gerund/nominalizing '-ing', so the noun denotes the action of doxing.
Etymology
The word doxing comes from the internet word docs, which is short for 'documents', and from the idea of 'drop docs' where people posted someone’s papers or files online. So, doxing means publishing private information or 'documents' about a person on the internet to expose or harm them.