• An Original Thought@lemmy.mlOP
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    24 天前

    So there actually is a federal (felony) law against that, but not against sharing their names: 18 U.S. Code § 119. This is the most a website could legally get away with, at least for US Citizens. It may not apply to Ice List’s designer (Edit: Who is Irish and living in the Netherlands, which I believe is part of 14 Eyes), but I am not a lawyer.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/119

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        24 天前

        And you foresee absolutely nothing bad happening if all the public officers’ addresses were made public?

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          Crazy people could start killing legislators like last month

          Edit: What I mean is: Crazy people might start killing legislators, like it has already happened months ago.

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            Yeah, which sounds great, right?

            Unless you’re not on the receiving end.

            You had fun on January 6? Now imagine that, but with armed militias hunting and killing center- and left-wing judges, congressmen, senators, etc., etc.

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              I just reread my comment, I think I wrote in a way that could be misunderstood and I was unclear. I wanted to say, the thing that is already happening might happen more, not “please kill politicians”.

              I was just saying that crazy people already started killing left-wing legislators. I don’t think Trump getting shot would be good for the US or the world either.

              I’m against releasing addresses, I’m just mentioning that that kind of political violence is not a hypothetical, it’s already happening…