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Why CoinDesk Respects Pseudonymity: A Stand Against Doxxing

The "Y Combinator crowd?" What does he even mean? The partners? The alumni? Hacker News users? Though in all 3 cases I'd guess this mysterious "overlap" is the same: We've read some of Scott's essays and thought they were well-written. Boy is this going to be a boring article.

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and

come out swinging, using as a case study and discussing their own policies seems like this is congealing into a story about newspapers and pseudonymity

coindesk.com

If you’re going to reveal someone’s personal information without their consent, you better have a damn good reason to do it, writes our executive editor.

meanwhile from a reporter at

@NBCNews

we have this Take expect this will be the mainline press response: drawing circles around SSC and right folks the Outgroup is Bad, news at 10

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Ben Collins

@oneunderscore__

A lot of people spending their whole lives on YouTube and reactionary blogs complaining about clickbait are doing it for precisely the same reasons they purport to complain about.

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I dearly wish

had not written their dumb piece.

meanwhile, local freelance bluecheck maintains remarkable beginner mindset with respect to Journalism And Its Consequences this is the kind of naive perspective I crave from people with bylines

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Matthew Zeitlin

@MattZeitlin

Replying to @Jess_Riedel and @CharlesFLehman

I guess they have a very jaundiced view of the times, such that stuff that’s completely within their normal realm of debate can, with the right framing, be presented as beyond the pale. I’m curious what stuff (I imagine it has to do with either feminism or IQ) they think it is

just imagine a world without the

@nytimes

! I've never unironically promoted a hash before but per

@balajis

, fuck it, #ghostnyt

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Christina Asquith

@ChristinaAsquit

Replying to @paulg

The @nyt staff publishes 100s of stories a day- under incredible deadline pressure- from @ the world. No doubt mistakes get made. But b4 you cancel, imagine your lives without a free press. NYT has set up systems for readers to engage and set the record straight. Don't give up

other news:

is putting together a letter to NYT. If you fit these criteria and are able to safely sign given your personal circumstances, please consider dropping him a DM twitter.com/Scholars_Stage

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meanwhile, in the case of

@davidshor

: news about internal dynamics of a journalist listserv I post to add color re internal dynamics of one journo social space, and extremely not to Own the Libs, please and thank you. This is not a time or place for that nymag.com/intelligencer/