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So, does the law require this doxxing and brigading harassment or is this something that you're doing for fun?
He did it under his real name. His Github username is his real name, with middle initial. He also links from said Github to his .com, which is also his real name. There is no doxxing here, nor is saying I wish someone hadn't done the thing they did harassment.
I won't defend the tone of the article though. I find the photoshopped mugshot and name-calling distasteful.
There's a difference between your information being publicly available and people taking your information and spreading it around amongst people that hate the person calling them a traitor and other shit.
It's stochastic terrorism, if they make 10,000 people hate the guy then the chances of somebody doing something to him goes up.
Get fucking real
You are dangerously naive if you don't understand how mobs work.