Wikileaks considering doxing every single verified Twitter - 2017 is gonna be so fucking awesome, guys

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Can you imagine the reaction from all our cows like Ali Rapp, Chelsea "5 Guys" Quinn and John Flynt who whined so much to get their check marks if their shit is made public

http://www.dailywire.com/news/12209/scary-wikileaks-considering-doxxing-all-verified-hank-berrien

SCARY: Wikileaks Considering Doxxing All Verified Twitter Users
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For those who think it’s all fun and games with Wikileaks revealing information to the public, consider this: Wikileaks is thinking of invading citizens’ privacy by creating an "online database" with the personal information of all verified Twitter users.

We are thinking of making an online database with all "verified" twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships.


— WikiLeaks Task Force (@WLTaskForce) January 6, 2017


Verified Twitter accounts display a blue icon to indicate that the person tweeting from the account is authentic.

Wikileaks has no conscience about those whom it might damage. As Gizmodo reported last July, Wikileaks published 19,252 emails from top US Democratic National Committee members, many of which included personal information about innocent donors including credit card, social security numbers, and passport numbers.

The Associated Press followed up in August, saying of Wikileaks:

But its spectacular mass-disclosures have also included the personal information of hundreds of people — including sick children, rape victims and mental health patients, The Associated Press has found. In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive family, financial or identity records posted to the web. In two particularly egregious cases, WikiLeaks named teenage rape victims. In a third case, the site published the name of a Saudi citizen arrested for being gay, an extraordinary move given that homosexuality can lead to social ostracism, a prison sentence or even death in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom.

Now Wikileaks is threatening ordinary citizens at-large.
 
What is the point of getting a verified Twitter anyway?

It used to be that only famous actors and public personalities could get the verified tag so you could separate the real accounts from all the parodies and fakes. Sometime last year though they changed the rules where anyone with enough followers or knows the right people within twitter can apply and get the sticker.

Now it's just a tag for "twitter-senpai noticed me". A ton of lolcows got themselves verified when the rules changed so they could stroke their egos.
 
If wikileaks went after Trump instead of Hillary the media would be telling us this is an "innovative new way to combat trolling and hold users accountable"
 
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