Hi this is tutor Nick P and this is new vocabulary (4) Okay talk about to dox someone all right so what's the definition of this dox if somebody
is doxed the private information about them is publicly published as a form of punishment all right to understand
this I'm giving you a few other definitions as well so if there's
somebody who's often online who's publishing stuff online maybe a blogger
or just somebody in a chat room sometimes they will use what we call a
handle so a handle is not their real name maybe they call themselves I don't know
cherry 85 of course that's not their real name that would be their handle that's
what they use online maybe they don't want to put their real name online so if
we say handle an online nickname or the name you go by in a chatroom blog etc
that's that's a handle okay so if someone is doxed
whoever doxes them usually somebody might dox someone because they don't
like what somebody is saying online or they don't like their opinions and
they're actually usually trying to threaten them they're threatening them
that they will reveal their real information and maybe if there's some
other people online you know you never know if a crazy person may try to do
something to you or just cause you trouble or you might get hate mail or
who knows might scare the people so that's what really doxing is all right
let me give you a meme too so you understand meme what's a meme
we usually say Internet mean in this case a meme is anything such as a
video photo or comment that people pass around to each other on the Internet so
sometimes people create these memes and put them online sometimes they do it as
a joke or they do it for some other reason all right all right let me give
you an example but happened recently and it made the word dox even more famous
even the dox was around before this sometimes there might be other people
online like we call like an Internet troll I don't know if you've ever heard
of that they might work for I don't know maybe a political party or something
they have a job like that that it may be somebody criticizes a particular
politician or a party or something they don't like they hire someone to
criticize back or say no you are wrong you are stupid or bla bla bla bla bla
and sometimes maybe the Internet troll could have been someone who might
try to dox but uh let's look at this example is
this one that was more popular or a couple months ago CNN threatened to
dox a Reddit user who created a meme of Trump wrestling someone to the ground
with a CNN logo over his face yeah some CNN was not really happy about this
I guess the Reddit user now remember Reddit is another social network a
little bit like Facebook or Instagram so CNN threatened to dox a Reddit user who
created the meme and so he created a picture it might have been maybe a
number of years ago you know Trump did a lot of stunts when he was a TV personality
maybe wrestling someone to the ground so obviously it was some other person which was
probably meant as a joke but this iReddit user took that other person and put a
CNN face you know logo over their face as though Trump was wrestling CNN to the
ground and Trump actually found it and then sent it back out and CNN got angry
about this so they tried to find this Reddit user and CNN tried to dox him
saying that that if you don't like apologize or say it wrong or take down
but that we may dox you although I you got to be careful with this though because doxing
someone there's a number of laws in a number of states where it could be illegal
I've heard some commentators saying you know I don't know if this was a real
threat or an empty threat but if they went through with it
some commentators were saying maybe this Reddit user could have
sued CNN for a lot of money because you're not supposed to reveal somebody's
personal information you know in a mean way or as a punishment so CNN threatened
to dox a Reddit user who created a meme so that was it it was the video was the video of
Trump wrestling someone to the ground with a CNN logo on the face
so after this happened to be honest it kind of backfired on CNN because they they
did get this guy to apologize or at least it was an apology letter I don't
know if he really wrote it or not but uh and they said that you know they could
still dox him if they chose but a lot of people on the Internet really didn't
like that CNN did this and instead of just having one meme suddenly there was
like hundreds or maybe thousands of other memes just like this original guy
did where of Trump either fighting or beating they took scenes from movies and
had Trump be like you know the hero somebody you know fighting someone so it
kind of backfired on someone on CNN instead of just having one mean they had
hundreds of thousands so CNN could not possibly dox everybody and that's what
ended up happening this went on for about a week or two okay well anyway I
hope that you understand what this dox is we may hear more of this in the
future this is a new vocabulary okay thank you for your time