>And as an aside: I have to admit I had no clue what "doxxing" was either and had to look it up. I'll straight up admit that kind of jargon turned me off. Trying to communicate to the broader community using language specifci to your little enclave is just poor persuasion tactics.
Same here, but I'm thinking the "little enclave" is youtube. Several hundred videos have discussed doxing/doxxing in the past year, so it may be assumed to be common knowledge there among the more active vloggers. She makes youtube videos and she seems to be appealing solely to a youtube audience since it's a youtube specific issue (again, this is just a transcript).
I'm agreeing with you on most everything else. I don't particularly care for her legal approach here, but I don't think what she said should be ignored because of novel word usage either.
It wasn't the novel word usage, it was the writing style in general. I can generally recognize what reasoned, researched, well-thought-out arguments look like.
Usually they do not include whole paragraphs in capital letters, or multiple instances of words in caps for emotional affect. Perhaps less telling but still strange was the reference to a user 'ZOMGitscriss' - this, combined with the repeated 'doxx' usage, lends me to believe the writer has about the intellectual level of a script kiddie on irc, which I am extremely familiar with due to spending years wasting my life with people who say things like "oh dongues. i been doxxd by a fed. ZOMG"
Reading the whole article after I left my comment, and reading HN's subsequent comments, it became clear this was some kind of off the cuff rant about the consequences of the DMCA-related censors built into youtube, and a misunderstanding of their policy. In other words, I was right.
Same here, but I'm thinking the "little enclave" is youtube. Several hundred videos have discussed doxing/doxxing in the past year, so it may be assumed to be common knowledge there among the more active vloggers. She makes youtube videos and she seems to be appealing solely to a youtube audience since it's a youtube specific issue (again, this is just a transcript).
I'm agreeing with you on most everything else. I don't particularly care for her legal approach here, but I don't think what she said should be ignored because of novel word usage either.