Leftwing Newspaper Gone Too Far?

[Aractus]

If the information was already public, I'm amazed there wasn't a website dedicated to doing this already. In any case, this is information that shouldn't be public in the first place. There is no need for the general population to know who owns guns.

It either is or isn't public domain information. If it is then publishing it breaches no ethic codes, and breaches no public trust. If you have a problem with it being public information then the anger shouldn't be directed at the journalists who publish the information, but at the state for making the information "public" rather than "private". I still don't understand why people are getting worked up on this one I must admit.

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Again, this is one guy being hypocritical, so this isn't "leftist double standards".

I fail to see the hypocrisy - if he wasn't a hypocrite wouldn't he exclude himself from the list??

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NOW having said that, my problem isn't that government documents are public, THEY SHOULD BE, but the tactic of "outing" at that mass scale is what I object to.

100% Yes!

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I'm as far to the left as you can get in the US and I think that this person took it way the fuck too far. There is no justification for this mass-publishing of private information of any sort whatsoever.

That'd be because he didn't publish private information!

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Uhm..... am I the only one who thinks it's silly to complain about a newspaper publishing information that's already available to the public?

Nope that's my thinking too.