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Names and addresses can absolutely be used to stalk and harass people, and there are password reset flows that involve physically mailing secrets to people. Perhaps almost no one cared about phone books, but if you thought about the differences between phone books and a website for a moment, you'd see that these are different technologies that have different implications, and that it is entirely reasonable for people to have a different reaction.

You've chosen some arbitrary amount of information where you begin to care and become interested, and decided everyone with a different cutoff is an absolutist you don't need to listen to. But it's really just that your situation permits you to leak that information without fear, and you haven't deigned to imagine that other people are in a different situation.

I'd encourage you to rethink this perspective.



Names and addresses are already public information in the US. It's not that big of a deal.




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