Tumblr screenshot of Christine Fair's doxxing page.
Posted on 10/09/2018 4:37:07 AM PDT by servo1969
The Georgetown University professor who called for the "miserable deaths" of GOP senators admitted Thursday to PJ Media that she runs a "doxxing" blog where she posts the names, phone numbers, and addresses of people who send her rude emails.
The blog -- "Sh_tMenSay" on Tumblr -- was launched by Professor Christine Fair in January 2017. First, she began by posting screenshots of the "hate mail" she was sent by Facebook and email, typically only including names and people's email addresses.
Tumblr screenshot of Christine Fair's doxxing page.
But as early as May 2017, Fair changed course. Instead of simply screenshotting the person's email or Facebook message, Fair appears to have subscribed to a service that would help her figure out where these people exactly live.
PJ Media reviewed hundreds of posts (yes, hundreds) on "ShitMenSay" and identified 11 accounts of full-on doxxing, for which home addresses, phone numbers, photos, aliases, and occasionally work phone numbers and other family members were made public.
"When will these male trolls learn?" she wrote on September 28.
"I do research for a living. Locating their residences (these folks live in a town in [redacted] near an elementary school on [redacted] St.), their wives, employers, etc. is mental sport for me," wrote Fair in one doxxing post.
"I will be notifying his current and past employer as well as his wife," she wrote on a separate doxxing post. (PJ Media is not linking or screenshotting any of these posts due to privacy concerns for the victims of her blog.)
While Fair justifies her doxxing by calling it "accountability" for "harassment," the emails that she received are garden-variety hate mail, and wouldn't in any case rise to an illegal level of harassment.
For example, one man was doxxed after he emailed: "I find it interesting that you refer to half the [men] in this country as a form of ape. Your (sic) a PHD right? I guess it must not be difficult to get a PHD."
He ended his brief missive with "HAHAHHAAHA GO TRUMP, I'M GLAD HE IRRITATES YOU." In turn, Fair posted his email, his home address, and his phone number, and contacted his employer. It is unclear if he is still employed; he was unreachable by phone and email.
PJ Media contacted the 11 people who were hardcore doxxed by Professor Fair. The vast majority of this hardcore doxxing came after she tweeted that GOP white senators "deserve miserable deaths" during the Brett Kavanaugh TV saga.
Except for two victims, none responded to PJ Media's requests for comment.
One man, K, said he was unaware he was doxxed. (To be fair, it is unclear how many people follow Fair's doxxing blog. It could easily have a handful of followers, or thousands.) "Why would she post my personal information? Is it to create an opening for someone ... to harass me? Is this the new way for people with extreme points of view to 'punish' and try to quiet those that disagree with them?" said K.
"Since when is the goal to damage or have some anonymous person damage a person that disagrees online? Muzzling free speech thru fear is not an American ideal. It does however, seem to be a new weapon to beat down conservative voices. Sad situation," K told PJ Media.
Another man, B, said he was doxxed within a day of sending Fair an email that contained his phone number in the signature line.
"Then I got 30 emails with the subject line 'ASSHAT' or something like that and some of the contents of those emails contained attachments with very disturbing images. Very gruesome. People."
"Were they dead or alive?" I asked B during a phone interview on Sunday.
"That I don't know. I only completely opened one email attachment, and was too afraid to open any others," B told PJ Media. Then B got a phone call from a man who said he knew where B lived, claiming that he was calling on behalf of Professor Fair.
Afraid for his safety, B was forced to temporarily move and change his phone number.
Fair -- for her part -- denies wrongdoing. Her blog is about "accountability," she maintains. She says she only posts the contact information for the people who "harrass" her, but claims she herself does not harass people back.
"I run my Tumblr blog. You can see only people who send me vile notes are doxxed," Fair emailed PJ Media last Thursday. She did not respond to follow-up inquiries.
According to a FIRE spokesman, Fair's actions thus far are protected by the First Amendment. But James Salby -- a manager at Acronis, a digital security firm -- said that the fallout of doxxing can be immense.
"Occasionally, doxxing is used by people who feel vulnerable and powerless to try to expose and hit back at people who are hiding behind secrecy and anonymity," he said.
"It is a crude weapon that can also harm innocent bystanders: family members, and people with similar names or appearances," he added. "The reason to take it seriously is that its use is growing. That's because it's effective and it's cheap and fairly simple to do."
Georgetown University spokesmen did not respond to requests for comment for this article. Fair is currently on paid research leave, and her Tumblr doxxing blog can only be viewed by those with Tumblr accounts who turn off safe-mode.
Note: The two victims have been identified in this article by an initial bearing no correlation to their actual name.
She is listed as an associate professor. It used to be an associate professor was a pre-tenure rank, and one was promoted to assistant professor when granted tenure. However, the correlation of professorial rank and tenure was decoupled a decade or so ago.
What is really strange is she apparently was once a mainstream foreign policy specialist, working for RAND corporation, the U.N., and various government organizations.
At some point she was radicalized a moonbat. Apparently by Trump’s election.
And in her case, it is actual threats.
Why hasn’t she been arrested?
Charge, try, convict and sentence her to the maximum punishment. Time for leftists to earn the consequences of their actions.
JoMa
Been there, done that.
It really isn't that new. It used to be you could look people up in the phone book. Some people had unlisted numbers.
You could always go down to the courthouse and pull public property records.
The difference is today you can do this in seconds on the Internet, and post it for all to see.
But in the past, few people had the interest to protest. Now many want to "make a difference".
The end game is this:
People have a right to protest in the public square.
People have a right to be safe and at peace in their homes.
A public protest against an individual in the public street in front of the individual's private home is a bridge too far. The First Amendment gives people the right to petition their GOVERNMENT for redress of grievances, not petition other INDIVIDUALS for redress of grievances. Ordinarily, issues between individuals are properly adjudicated in civil courts.
It is up to municipal governments and law enforcement to limit what can happen. They could make it harder to get access to the online information. They could crack down on un-permitted protests and trespassing.
If they do not, someone is going to take it upon themselves to defend themselves.
When the government refuses to protect its citizens, the citizens reserve the right to protect themselves.
Best approach — write emails designed to persuade, not to vent.
Or you can submit a venting email using a lib’s name and email address.
Turn the harpy loose on her own kind.
Oh my!
Better approach
Let the lunatics converse among themselves
Do not engage
No harm no foul
If they are trees falling in a forest of like minded bots, there is no sound
Why aren’t these sickos in jail?
No one should be able to give out your address, but you.
These freaks doing the “doxxing” aren’t trying to get you on a Christmas card list, they’re trying to invoke some form of danger into your life, or even moreso, into your families’ lives.
That’s their only end game.
They’re hoping their locator information is picked up by the one NUT out there who’s anger has driven them to the point of violence, or beyond. They’re biggest satisfaction would be to hear that someone at that address they “doxxed” was either harassed unmercifully, or injured, or even killed.
They should be charged with inciting a riot, and assault with a deadly weapon (in today’s environment).
That begs one question: How is it that people who live in the “hood” are never doxxed?
I am seriously starting to hate the name Christine. It is fallen into the pile of names that include Hillary and Monica.
If she does this to the wrong person they will track her down and take their revenge in person. That’s how I would handle it. She’s playing a dangerous game. I hope she understands that.
Hownis it legal to encourage harrassment of someone?
Destroy the life of the individual. Get them fired, banned, or killed.
Many employers will just bail if they start getting mail about someone. And that puts a permanent black mark on the persons name. No one wants to put their name or company at risk.
Another trick is to have someone make something up and have the SWAT team show up. In case you don’t know, many SWAT teams kill first and then try to figure out what is the real situation later. Rand Paul’s house is an example, but lucky for his family someone ran the address before assaulting the place.
I wonder what are the horrible things that are being sent to her - I’d like to see some examples.
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