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Sydney real estate agency posts personal information of critics in response to online backlash over viral rental listing (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't doxing illegal now?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Basically nothing regarding digital abuse by corporations is illegal in Australia. Corporations can do whatever they want. There are basically zero privacy laws here. It's the wild west. We don't even have a legal right to free speech.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Silence, peasant!

You must be more compliant!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Apparently not, though the government did introduce a new bill earlier this month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

And this bill is going to ban doxing, right? Right??

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm still gobsmacked.

It's like some people have never heard of the Streisand effect, and want to do some sort of experiment to prove that it's valid....