The WikiLeaks Task Force tweeted on 6 Jan. 2017:
We are thinking of making an online database with all “verified” twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships.
There are a number of comments to this tweet, the ones containing “dox,” “doxx,” “doxing,” “creepy,” “evil,” etc. that should be ignored.
Ignored because intelligence agencies, news organizations, merchants, banks, etc. are all collecting and organizing that data and more.
Ignored because the public should not preemptively disarm itself.
If anything, the Wikileaks Task Force should start with “verified” Twitter accounts and expand outwards, rapidly.
The public should be able to rapidly find relationships of individuals nominated for office, who contribute money to candidates, who profit from contracts, who launder public money. The public should have the same advantages intelligence agencies enjoy today.
To the nay-sayers to the WikiLeaks Task Force proposal:
Why do you seek to prevent putting the public on a better footing vis-a-vis government?
Question to my readers: What do the nay-sayers gain from a disarmed public?