This is dreadful. It seems more widespread than anything I've heard about in the US, but chillingly I fear the difference is only in degree, not kind. Plenty of Americans have been shamed and persecuted for holding "unacceptable" views, including views that were widely accepted not so long ago. Ideally articles like this will scare us away from wandering further down that path, but I'm not optimistic.
Doxxing / humanflesh search typically gets filtered by the great firewall because it promotes "activism", occasionally it's also weaponized. That said this isn't exactly a novel phenomenon, HK protestors has been doxxing police family for the last few months but of course that doesn't get much coverage here [1]. It's only remarkable in the sense that China (supposedly) isn't cracking down on it, implying state endorsement. I wonder if there's actual change in GFW policy, humanflesh doxxes usually get deleted after a period of time based on specific triggers (reach X critical shares, influence real life activity), is that not happening now or is this just business as usual?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3024762/hong-kong-privacy-watchdog-refers-600-cases-doxxing" rel="nofollow">https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...</a>
Likewise police in Hong Kong are also being Doxxed.
<a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3024762/hong-kong-privacy-watchdog-refers-600-cases-doxxing" rel="nofollow">https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...</a>