States crack down on doxxing, but there's still no federal law.
    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      Ask US Congress. They can’t be bothered to pass federal law.

      • FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social
        8·
        1 year ago

        You don’t need a federal law to sue someone. You can sue anybody for literally any reason.

        Doesn’t mean it will be successful of course, and if it’s frivolous, you’ll probably have to pay court costs and for the defense lawyers, but you can totally sue pretty much anybody for any reason at least in America.

        • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Sure, but it’s one thing to try to apply general law that might fit your situation and another thing to have specific law with it’s own standard that you can rely on.

      • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        1 year ago

        For real? Bruh privacy isn’t a thing in murica… So by law its allowed to basically leak all private Information? Someone should do that to your politicians, they’ll happily i make it illigal…

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Seems like a real mixed bag, leaning towards a negative because it requires a civil lawsuit. On one hand sure, good, you can sue harassers at the source. On the other hand how many nasty things like neo-nazi group membership are brought to light through doxxing and will also become illegal. and since it requires you bring suit, this will protect the people with more money/resources more often than not.