London -
The law is way too behind online realities. DOXing is the publishing of people’s personal details online. A recent case in the UK basically defines very dangerous issues and risks. This is breach of privacy, with clearly criminal hacking of info.
Sydney -
Reddit has removed two alt-right subreddits which were publishing a lot of private information. This is doxing, and it’s legally very questionable, as well as unethical.
Wikipedia, the online publicly-editable encyclopedia, has issued a restriction on editing to certain users over alleged harassment and violation of civility while editing the "Gamergate controversy" article.
It's has become notorious for women in the game industry to be targets of harassment by trolls, but one critic is turning the tables by reporting them to their mothers.
San Francisco -
The horrific misogynistic abuse of female figures within the video game industry has triggered debate over whether women are being accepted as equal partners in the sector.
#Gamergate is going viral. As a non-gamer, having not played a video game since GTA: Vice City, I was initially confused by the furor popping up everywhere from CNN to TIME to Digg. But it turns out that this nerd war has big ramifications for all.
