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I did call the police when it happened, maybe they'll be able to do something but somehow I don't see this going anywhere.
Probably because it's not illegal.
Also probably because they mostly only protect certain income brackets and payors.
I don't know what world you're living in where it's legal to post a picture of someone's house and where they live, but in most places this is a crime, and it is a crime where I live.
Zillow does it all the time, even when properties aren't marketed. Also, Streisand effect.
If you keep making noise about this, you’re going to get the Streisand effect. It’s not a crime to post pictures of peoples houses where I live (USA).
Just move along.
Eh, I disagree with them on the "illegal most places" thing, but I don't know if I'd just ignore it. Like, okay, say they want to be pseudonymous. In their shoes, I'd probably:
See if I can get the relevant mods/admins to ban the user for doxxing. It's not illegal to do so, but many services do have policies against it. I doubt that this will be incredibly efficacious, since the user in question can probably just use a throwaway account to do this.
Delete my account, which I believe on the Threadiverse also deletes posts and comments. You can't really "wipe" stuff reliably that you've posted and commented on
someone can always be running an instance that is logging it. But it'll at least increase the barrier to someone reading them.
It's certainly not illegal in the US. Heck, Google Street View has images of most addresses online.
EDIT: Well, okay. There are forms in which it could be illegal, like if someone was, oh, trying to convince someone to kill a person and provided the images as part of that, where the act of trying to get someone to do so might be incitement or conspiracy or something. But it's not ordinarily illegal in-and-of-itself to post it.
the problem lies in the fact that they probably don't live where you live, and it might not be illegal there. and even if it is, you would still need to contact the local police in their jurisdiction, because anything federal is unlikely to spend any time on something like this.
for that matter, even getting local police to do something will be an uphill battle. cops don't enjoy actually doing their jobs.