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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Got permanently banned on Political Memes by JonsJava, for doxxing republican politicians.

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If the image was actually a 7zip file with personal data from politicians, I have to ask: what the hell where you expecting while posting it on a meme community? It's not a meme, it's not funny and depending on the laws might be a crime. Even if it's not, it's completely out of place in a meme community and can generate a lot of trouble to the admins.

You did this to yourself mate.

Of course, this applies only if the image was an actual file containing what you said, otherwise it's a power tripping bastard alright.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Even if the image hadn't been, the post contained the entirety of what the image was supposed to, which included not only names and addresses, but also the SSNs of the doxxed persons.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ydi. Not the purpose of that comm

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

YDI, not what a meme community is for, and potentially illegal.

[–] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 months ago

Honestly you're lucky that you weren't instance banned.

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Too many times, I expect my moderation to end up here. Many times, I wonder if I was wrong.

I'm not regarding this.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Bruh, what the fuck? YDI

I've definitely been scanning the news lately, and totally expecting to see something like, "And he released his manifesto to a little-known social forum called Lemmy..." about one of you guys.

If I were a new up and coming law enforcment agent, I'd totally be checking out Lemmy. lol

If you wanna go extreme and shit, cool, but do it somewhere else, please. Lemmy ain't a safe place for you to be doxxing people. If dbzer0 gets shut down because of people like you doing shit like this, imma be pissed.

What the fuck were you thinking and what was your end goal here?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The truly extreme action of releasing publicly available information

(Also we already had one but he was a mod of an community with like ten subscribers and apparently didn't do anything cool here)

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The truly extreme action of releasing publicly available information

So if it's so publicly available, then no reason to post it on Lemmy. Also, someone mentioned the post had Social Security numbers. I don't care what Lemmy says or how much Lemmy hates people, I'll always think posting people's info like that is uncool.

Doxxing is never cool, friend. And can get dbzer0 into some uncomfortable legal noise.

When you gonna post your manifesto, friend?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No one cares about your concern trolling, fascist.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Are you implying that I'm a fascist because I think doxxing social security numbers is bad for a Lemmy instance? That's a strange take.

Also, it looks like most people are downvoting OP's post and agreeing that he deserved it. Are they fascist too?!

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

This absolute goober just calls everyone they disagree with fascist, they do it multiple times per day.

I wouldn't worry too much about what they have to say.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago

Like pretty much every other person, I'm gonna say YDI.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is the image actually a 7z archive? I don't believe it is, and at first glance I thought that was the joke because the current administration considers possession of Vance memes a reason to do bad things to people. If that's the case, then whatever the opposite of YDI is.