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"An eye for an eye, and pretty soon the whole world is blind." — Mohandas K. Gandhi
But that's not the real problem.
Alison pointed out the real problem: Double standards.
Krimpet had posted Jeremy's dox, thereby setting the precedent that doing so is an acceptable practice in the WikiCulture.
Elsewhere, there are those who want to make it a hanging offense to call someone by their real name (even just their real first name) instead of their WP avatar name.
But when those same "hanging judges" engage in the self-same conduct that they propose to declare sufficient cause for summary Bill of Attainder (that's the term of art in Law for banning or ostracism), then you have a serious problem. The officials want to excuse and shrug off their own practice of "naming names" whilst using that as an excuse for invoking the cyberspace death penalty.
Given that civilized nations abandoned Bill of Attainder more than two centuries ago, it seems a bit problematic for WikiCulture to be teaching that practice to impressionable 21st Century youth today. It's one thing to teach young people about hoary and anachronistic political practices that have long since been tossed on the rubbish heap of history. It's another thing to teach impressionable youth to gleefully adopt those toxic and corrosive practices in this day and age.
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Krimpet quits?, Deletes everything in userspace
