Because you investigated it, and there's a huge difference between "in some randos' blogs" and "in the NYT"
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Replying to @GabrielObray @NotoriousAapje and
I absolutely did not investigate it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
I'd assumed his name actually was "Scott Alexander" right up until someone online called him "Scott Siskind" by accident
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
I am first learning his last name now, even after reading some Astral Codex Ten where he no longer hides it.
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Replying to @GabrielObray @NotoriousAapje and
Okay, good for you, do you want a prize for ignorance or something
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
The point is it was never that easy to find unless you had a weird obsession with knowing it.
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Replying to @GabrielObray @arthur_affect and
Except that's not true. Some people had to have seen the initial leak. They'd tell other people and it would spread from there. Information spreads like water, just because you didn't encounter this particular stream doesn't mean no one did.
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Replying to @Zendervai @GabrielObray and
and the bit where it literally wasn't a leak bu this name
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Replying to @davidgerard @Zendervai and
Because everyone deserves the right to write anonymously. That's the key point being debated here, and if the vital bit of personal information doesnt count as a leak, literally nothing does.
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Replying to @GabrielObray @davidgerard and
Nah, they don't, it's an extremely conditional right
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It's literally not a legal right at all, it's not at all an unconditional right in the ethics codes of any professional media org, and the Extremely Online nerds who tried to MAKE it an unconditional right ended up backed into obvious horrific contradictions
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
It's how back in 2012 Reddit ended up censoring links to countless mainstream news stories about the "doxing" (real name reveal) of the admin of r/Jailbait and r/Creepshots
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
Censoring like mad in the name of "anti-censorship" He had an absolute right to post scraped Facebook photos of 14-year-old girls in swimsuits anonymously Anyone breaking that anonymity had to have their speech suppressed
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