• An Original Thought@lemmy.mlOP
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    5 hours ago

    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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        7 hours ago

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

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          if all the public officers’ addresses were made public?

          if they don’t want to receive what’s coming to them, they can always quit

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          7 hours ago

          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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            7 hours ago

            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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              7 hours ago

              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…