A little background in case you have missed the story.
On TikiTok, there is a site named “Libs of TikTok”. What the owner does is repost videos, from leftist, with little comments. Leftist are very upset their own words and actions are being shown for how radical they are. A WaPo reporter ’doxed’ the owner of Libs for TikTok at which point all hades broke loose.
Lorenz Justifies The Mean
What Does The Dox Say?
NY Post recaps the only story hotter than the mask mandate: “Taylor Lorenz slammed as ‘hypocrite’ for ‘doxxing’ ‘Libs of TikTok’ creator”
“Taylor Lorenz, the Washington Post’s internet culture beat reporter, is being accused of ‘doxxing’ the anonymous woman who operates the popular Twitter account ‘Libs of TikTok.’
“Lorenz, the former New York Times journalist who earlier this month broke down in tears on MSNBC while recounting ‘harassment’ she has experienced online, published an article on Tuesday revealing the identity of the social media user. ‘Doxxing’ is the term used to describe the act of posting the personal information of those who wish to remain anonymous.”
“Critics accused Lorenz of hypocrisy after it was claimed that she showed up at the home of the woman’s relatives to ask questions. ‘Which of my relatives did you enjoy harassing the most at their homes yesterday?’ read the caption attached to the photo of a woman who bears Lorenz’s likeness.”
“In a segment that aired April 1 on MSNBC’s Meet the Press Daily, Lorenz revealed that online harassment targeting her and her family caused her to experience ‘severe PTSD’ and contemplate suicide in the recent past. At the time, Lorenz, then a reporter for the New York Times, said she had endured a ‘smear campaign’ that had ‘destroyed her life.’”
What The Mean Means
Federalist: “Lorenz’s ‘reporting’ is similar to usual corporate media hit pieces on conservatives, with the obvious goal of chilling speech and intimidating anyone who dares to challenge the regime’s narrative, which apparently now includes private citizens. But Lorenz took it a step further by dabbling in the long-held anti-Semitic trope that ‘Jews control the media.’”
Jonah Goldberg: “The Lorenz piece feels like a very niche social media beat version of ‘Republicans pounce’ journalism. Not a moment of consideration is given to why people might object to what @libsoftiktok was exposing. The *only* story is how ‘the right’ responds.”
Good Humor About Bad Humans
Seth Mandel reax to WaPo doxxing an Orthodox Jew: “Democracy Dies in the Original German”
Frank Fleming: “They should put Taylor Lorenz on CNN+ where she could dox people all day and no one would know.”
So Are Unsupportive Retweets Now A Hate Crime?
Melissa Chen: “It’s curious why @libsoftiktok poses such a threat to the blue-check intelligentsia by simply signal boosting self-uploaded TikTok videos. Why? Because it is holding up a mirror to the absurdity of a certain kind of activism that is self-refuting to people with common sense.”
Eric Spencer: “When you show the world exactly what we’re saying, people get angry at us and even pass laws against our activities. Maybe the problem is what you’re saying and doing and you should stop saying and doing those things. Just a thought.”
More Than A Red Wave, THE Tide Is Turning
Christina Pushaw: “between this, the airplane mask mandate being dropped, and elon musk trying to buy twitter, the ossified regime has had a very rough week”
