What always worries me is how accurate these dox are? What happens if they wrongly accuse someone? The internet is very unforgiving and it could literally ruin someone's life. They shouldn't be taking vigilante actions like this, especially endorsed by a company like Gawker. Although I disagree with the concept of these subreddits, this should be reported to the police - or worst case confront the users first. There seems to be little indication of this.
These people run multiple subreddits dedicated to ruining lives for sexual gratification and celebrity. I couldn't give less of a crap about what happens to them.
Read my post. My concerns are with the wrong people being doxed. As far as I'm aware, Doxing is not a precise art - there's a huge degree of guess work. Guess work tends not to be right 100% of the time.
I'm not a fan of Gawker either but as of right now there's no proof provided in the link you posted. While it's possible, it's still just something one guy posted on Reddit.
Agreed, hence why I put "apparently". Regardless of whether there's physical abuse, having your name wrongly sprawled all over the internet calling you a pervert could still ruin someone's life. To be honest, even if you share the same name there could be negative repercussions.
People are going as far as disabling their facebook accounts to keep their personal and professional life separate - at least you have a degree of control on facebook. There's no control over what people associate your name with on the internet.
The name of the company is Gawker. Ruining lives is how they make their money. Their most famous article is by an intern who went on a date with a guy and then publicly ruthlessly mocked him for having different (prosaic) hobbies from her.
Take a look here, someone has already apparently been attacked because of these: http://www.reddit.com/r/CreepSquad/comments/11b39y/modpost_l...
Gawker has proved time & time again that it is a vile, ruthless company, I really wish this is an internet-wide ban.