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Im going to try to engage more with the actual totw and take a firm position against doxxing other anarchists.

The first reason being that anarchists doxxing anarchists does indeed happen due to disagreements and personal character dislike. These often get blown out of proportion and justified as fighting or deplatforming fascists.

Its too easy
Out of the myriad ways one could respond to people or opinions they don't like, it's all too easy to rush to deploying a cyber-weapon against them (also usually anonymously or pseudonymously) and let the chips fall where they may, because "fuck that guy". You can't be bothered to critically engage or even do your own dirty work, so you blast your anarchist rival's personal info online for everyone to see: actual neo-nazis, police and fbi, employers, creditors, insurance companies, abusive ex-partners, unfriendly neighbors, and other impressionable anarchists looking to feel powerful by using said information to 'fight evil'.

It's not DIY nor direct action
Personally, diy ethic is a big part of my anarchy. If you have the personal info of another anarchist you hate and it's some how to the point of needing to confront them physically, it is hard to justify to me a reason to put said personal info on the public internet when you can try taking things into your own hands? We are anarchists after all..

I feel like there used to be a harder line in the anarchist space against blowing people's real names, doxxing and the like on the internet. For the most part, it was very not cool to do these things 5 to 10 years ago, no matter how hated the target was (talking anarchist rivals here, not neo-nazis). At least among the people i was around. You might have hated Kevin Tucker with a passion, but you didn't give his info to the cops. What happened to bring about this transition to where we are today?

It does more harm than good
Instead of a back and forth that could even be edifying for more than just the aggrieved parties, people quit or are pushed out. Instead of personal growth and coming to some level of mutual understanding, we become further entrenched or double down in a more extreme direction than the initial conflict even called for. The modern call-outs and the doxxings are saying: we have the right answer, you don't, and you should be shut down forever - we don't want you to change or grow. It's one of the reasons why the anarchist space is contracting in vibrancy, numbers, diversity and even what we can imagine is possible at this point. Its similar to what is happening in queer scenes with cliquey power play call outs.

Doxxing other anarchists is weakness.

Ready to have my assumptions, language, and ideas challeneged in good faith.