Anti-Trump professor posts ICE dox database to GitHub, gets banned

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Twitter and other online platforms are shutting down efforts to reveal the names of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees following the backlash against the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Developer Sam Lavigne, who claims to be an adjunct professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, created a database on GitHub that revealed the names of more than 1,500 ICE agents -- with the data scraped from the LinkedIn business networking site.

In a now-deleted Medium post, Lavigne justified the database, saying, “As ICE continues to ramp up its inhumane surveillance and detention efforts, I believe it’s important to document what’s happening, and by whom, in any way we can.”

But the blogging platform suspended the post detailing the information on the grounds of "doxxing" – the intentional publication of personal information -- Lavigne told the Verge.

GitHub explained in a statement why it removed the information about ICE agents.

“We removed the project because it violates our community guidelines,” a GitHub spokesperson said. “In general, we have policies against use of GitHub for doxxing and harassment, and violating a third party’s privacy.”

Twitter also began cracking down on accounts that tweeted information about ICE employees. Russel Neiss, a coder, created an account that automatically revealed information from the database, BuzzFeed reported. The database is reportedly now being circulated in a form of publicly accessible Google document.

Lavigne told the Verge that though he thinks the "doxxing" concerns raised by the database he created are valid, he believes “the information is already out there, and if people want to embark on individual campaigns of harassment, then they’re going to be doing that no matter what.”

Fox News reached out to New York University asking for a comment.

The effort to identify ICE employees coincided with Tuesday's harassment of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who was forced to leave a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., after socialist activists surrounded her and yelled “Shame!” and other comments.

President Donald Trump was also subject to protests on Tuesday. On his way to House Speaker Paul Ryan's office, a congressional intern yelled, "Mr. President, F--k you!" across the Capitol Rotunda.

He then faced several members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), who gathered outside Trump’s meeting with Republican lawmakers who tried to come up with a legislative solution to the controversial family separation policy at the border. After Trump left the meeting, the Democratic officials heckled him and held signs.

 

[mindlessobserver]

What is it with college professors and :autism:?

The vast majority of college professors, particularly in the liberal arts, entered the university at age 18, and never left. They spent their formative adult years being taught by good communists while living off the donations of productive members of the Alumni associations and federal grants. They never got to grow up and experience an adult world, or form adult relationships. Instead their social group is picked from the same sheltered children sucking on the institutional tit of the University.

The end result is they are invariably far left, entitled, have no idea how society actually works as they never had to be a part of it, and are in general horrendously malformed human beings. No longer children but not quite adults either. I would pity them if they were not causing so much damage to society.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

I've seen this line before, elsewhere, but it bears repeating:

"They're gonna hate the new rules they're pushing."

 

[Medicated]

The only reason it strikes me as being so odd is because usually they at least try to paint a thin veneer over the top of it to present it as information that's being leaked to shed light on government malfeasance. Even Collateral Murder--for all the shit-mess it left in its wake and for being solely responsible for saddling us with that jack-wagon Chelsea Manning-- was at least presented in a way that made you go, "Alright, maybe there's a couple things here we should probably talk about."

This is just straight-up painting a target on the back of everyone on the list, though. Not just from from normal crazies or protestors, but any of the gang members or smugglers who'd be keenly interested in getting their hands on an ICE agent's home address. That's what's making me tilt my head at this one. I just can't see their "We're doing the right thing" angle this time.

I agree, this is very unusual. Wikileaks is usually about spreading information that the public has a right to know about. Government documents, investigation transcripts, meeting minutes.

Just posting info on people who are just working for the government for a paycheck doesn't seem like something "the public has a right to know about" it's just about harassing government workers who are merely hired to carry out the Governments policies and laws. If they quit due to death threats, they'll hire someone else.

Congratulations you just caused someone to quit their job that feeds their family, to be replaced by someone else, well done fighting the man, morons.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Well this will make sure the only people who join ICE are really, really anti-illegal immigration, to the point that they're willing to risk their safety over it. Do you think these people will be more or less sympathetic to those crossing the border?

 

[GnomeofDoc]

I mean we can pull a Philippines and hand out free guns as long as you kill drug dealers. Make everyone ICE and then no one is ICE.

But really. Technically it’s public info on LinkedIn but still really shitty and really hypocritical since the same shit was going on under Obama and Mr.HamerandSickleDidNuffen Did Nuffen. It’s fine when we do it but when they do it I am going to give everyone the front desk secretaries name.

 

[Herbert Hoover]

I don’t see how someone can decide to risk a government worker’s life in an admistration that would probably be hardest on you if you were to get someone killed over what you released

 

[Marvin]

Wikileaks not so much, but the professor who was directly responsible for creating this list would be held liable to an extent.

Not in America.

 

[polonium]

This is just straight-up painting a target on the back of everyone on the list, though.

Didn't they already do this once when they published the list of CIA agents including underacted names a few years ago?

 

[AnOminous]

Didn't they already do this once when they published the list of CIA agents including underacted names a few years ago?

That was actually worse. This was just trawling LinkedIn. I just find it funny the very same people who screech about "doxing" have no problem doing it themselves while claiming the high ground.

 

[Shugo]

That was actually worse. This was just trawling LinkedIn. I just find it funny the very same people who screech about "doxing" have no problem doing it themselves while claiming the high ground.

Yeah, those were actual government cables that included the names of US service members and informants working around the world, including the Middle East, right?

I find it funny people are stupid enough to dox themselves on a dumb website like LinkedIn. Do employers really look at someone's linkedin profile to see their self-reported work history or something? I don't understand the point of such a website.

 

[polonium]

I don't understand the point of such a website.

I always considered it to be facebook for people who wear suits to work.

I have a linkedin but only because I'm looking for a new job since the industry I work in is facing a downturn in new work, and the company I specifically work for are on the ropes financially due to mismanagement and letting their assets decay, and I wanna get out. When you look at job postings from a certain company, it highlights all the people you know who work there (and all the people you know who know people who work there) so you can prime yourself for weaselling in by the back door and getting a recommendation.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Why doesn't he have a thread on him yet? Surely with stunts like this and thumbs-upping a Soviet monument, he's done threadworthy things. He can go alongside Kevin Allred and Neck Man, surely.

 

[Metaphysics]

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Plans are currently underway by several anti-fascist action groups to build a database of known alt-right members, containing all available information. This would be based on the work of Sam Lavigne, who bravely revealed the LinkedIn information of thousands of ICE agents in 2018, allowing them to be targeted for direct action nationally. The database would be accessible globally and protected via redundancy from ever being deleted. You can bet that any and all TERF’s will also be in that database.

Websites claiming they're going to be targeting more people with this guys work. I imagine this could maybe be used against even kiwi users one day if data were to ever leak.