Huffington Post Germany Doxxes Migration Opponents

[Ultimate Paragon]

http://www.huffingtonpost.de/2015/08/14/hass-kommentare-fremdenfeindlichkeit_n_7982786.html

https://archive.is/gADRu

Jesus Christ, Huff, this is something I'd expect from Gawker, not you!

[Sigmaleph]

Fucking hell. Remind me never to post a comment on HuffPo.

[lord gibbon]

Not to mention the harm this will do to the actual migrants. This is just gonna galvanize the opposition.

[mellenORL]

UP, since I don't speak or read German. I auto translated the page, but of course it's shite. I see a lot of talk about the negative comments, and it looks like the comment section uses Facebook to host their comment section. Can you find an accurate English translation showing where HuffPo DE is saying they will or where they have in fact doxxed, i.e., given out the real names and/or addresses etc. of these anti-immigrant commenters?

[Ultimate Paragon]

UP, since I don't speak or read German. I auto translated the page, but of course it's shite. I see a lot of talk about the negative comments, and it looks like the comment section uses Facebook to host their comment section. Can you find an accurate English translation showing where HuffPo DE is saying they will or where they have in fact doxxed, i.e., given out the real names and/or addresses etc. of these anti-immigrant commenters?

Sure.  Here's the most important bit:

Now, we can do what we Germans have been doing for too long — we can dismiss the haters as “crazy idiots” and just look the other way. For years, we failed to recognize and confront xenophobia and racism. But no more.

The Internet has become a violent mob who act contrary to the values of our Basic Law. It is time for us to defend democracy and confront the haters by revealing their faces and names. In so doing, we are simply exercising the same freedom of expression that they espouse.

[mellenORL]

So, the Facebook-hosted comments section links to the commenters' Facebook pages? A lot of comments sections around the web do that, but it's obvious and stated up front that your Facebook name and profile are used openly, and people can choose to not post or just watch their language accordingly. If this is a case where HuffPo DE suddenly toggled their comment section from a masked (users must make a HuffPo user name for posts and no links to FB profiles are available) to fully transparent Facebook hosted comments, yeah that's really very, very dickish of them. Chickenshit and lazy, too, I might add.

[niam2023]

Such a switch is utterly, utterly devious...

I love it.

Excuse me if I am not crying for neo-nazis. They actually pose a problem to refugees already battered by war. Hence making them identifiable is necessary.

[Ultimate Paragon]

Such a switch is utterly, utterly devious...

I love it.

Excuse me if I am not crying for neo-nazis. They actually pose a problem to refugees already battered by war. Hence making them identifiable is necessary.

Even assuming they're all neo-Nazis and the like, this isn't going to help.  All it does is feed into their persecution complexes.  Moreover, this might actually help them win sympathy, which is not desirable in any case.

[Sigmaleph]

Such a switch is utterly, utterly devious...

I love it.

Excuse me if I am not crying for neo-nazis. They actually pose a problem to refugees already battered by war. Hence making them identifiable is necessary.

It's not about neo-nazis. It's about HuffPo thinking that if they dislike your opinion enough they should point their readership at you and loudly proclaim "look, here's this week's designated evil people!".

There's never a need to "make someone identifiable" over their political opinions. Ever.