2600 Magazine says they didn't. They posted names and email addresses of DOGE employees.
My partner works for the government in a mid level management position. I'd be pissed if someone on X posted her name and email address in an article that borderline encouraged people to email her in a not so positive manner.
It seems that X deems names and email addresses to be personal info. I'm pretty sure this was in Twitters ToS pre-Musk as well.
Why does breaking X's ToS not warrant an account suspension? You can even sneeze loudly in some subreddits without falling afoul of inciting violence.
Perhaps this is a shift away from cancel culture? I don't see why that's a bad thing.
Why? Is there a law for this other than being able to request a FOIA?
Regardless of where the information came from, plastering personal information of random people on twitter is not okay.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250304001202/https://help.x.co...
What reason do we have to believe the ToS is being enforced fairly and not at the behest of the current regime?
Wait, so canceling the account is a shift away from cancel culture?
What the fuck is cancel culture even at this point?
The reason they are banned on X is because they annoyed emperor Elon, nothing to do with TOS violations.
``` You may not threaten to expose, incentivize others to expose, or publish or post other people's private information without their express authorization and permission, or share private media of individuals without their consent. ``` [https://web.archive.org/web/20250304001202/https://help.x.co...]
I'm going to assume that the employees didn't give the okay for their info to be posted so it's clearly a ToS violation. End of story.
The topic at hand seems a stretch compared to normal content from the 2600 crew and the background they come from, doxxing (anyone) (for whatever reason) on a social media account (irregardless of who runs it) doesn't seem like a good idea.
As for the why, 2600 says: "Our very first issue in 1984 contained a list of govt employees. This is the kind of thing we do."
To your point, publishing contact details for a good reason, giving people incentive to reach out to their voted representatives to demand legislative change, for example, sounds like a reasonable cause and should be encouraged.
What we saw that was a group of people saying "Here is a list of individuals and their details, without purpose, for the wider population to do with what they please, because we did it once in the past, in a completely different world and political landscape."
I see no valid reason as a grown-up to have a list of individuals published in one excel file for the sake of letting people know to do what they please. Others have posted here, personal lives should not be compromised with threats or other nefarious techniques because they hold employment from the general public.
Do you?
