How ‘Doxxing’ Became a Mainstream Tool in the Culture Wars<br />SAN FRANCISCO — Riding a motorized pony and strumming a cigar box ukulele, Dana Cory<br />led a singalong to the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.”<br />“You’re a Nazi and you’re fired, it’s your fault,” she sang.<br />You’re a Nazi and you’re fired, it’s your fault.”<br />“All together now!” Ms. Cory, 48, shouted to a cheering crowd in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood on Saturday.<br />“Originally it was little black-hat hacker crews who were at war with each other — they would take docs, like documents, from a competing group<br />and then claim they had ‘dox’ on them,” said Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University who wrote a book about the hacker vigilante group Anonymous.<br />“If isolation and shame is the driver for people joining these types of groups, doxxing certainly isn’t the answer.”<br />In short, once someone is labeled a Nazi on the internet, that person stays a Nazi on the internet.<br />“For a long time it was only a certain quarter of people on the internet who would be willing to do this,” Ms. Coleman said.
