I'm trying to think of exceptions and there aren't many Even pseudonymous writers back when information traveled at the speed of horseback were usually outed surprisingly quickly (George Eliot came out after writing her very first book)
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Miles Taylor, former DHS chief of staff, outed himself a couple of years after the editorial. Who knows if he could have kept it secret longer, or if he’d have lasted that long with a weekly column? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/us/politics/miles-taylor-anonymous-trump.html …pic.twitter.com/9Ra28jEotT
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Replying to @avram @mssilverstein and
A one off piece is pretty easy to keep anonymous. It's when you continue operating under the pseudonym that the breadcrumbs eventually pile up even if you don't make mistakes.
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Replying to @sleeperjoebiden @avram and
Pretty crazy that the mainstream opinion is apparently "if your real name is outed, that's on you" and not "that's on the outers." We've become so anti-GamerGate that we've gone back around to just being GamerGate.
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Replying to @GabrielObray @sleeperjoebiden and
Yeah one of the things people noticed back when GG happened in 2014 is it drove a huge flood of traffic to a "free speech, total anonymity" haven, 8chan, which later became known for being the HQ for Qanon
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
It was already known previously for being a hotbed of child pornography, its main reason for existence as a "refuge" from 4chan in the first place Shockingly, when you promise to provide the strongest anonymity protections technologically possible, that's what you get
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
The chans grasped that the only way to maintain anonymity is to make it impossible to maintain identity. Even Q got identified
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Replying to @sleeperjoebiden @GabrielObray and
I see chan-style anonymity as something that it's at least *possible* to grant to everyone as a universal right ("A Tor client on every laptop!") It's just not a good thing that most people would want or benefit from
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
And as long as meatspace actually exists and we need to actually, you know, live and do stuff in the world rather than all discoursing constantly from our IV-and-catheter-equipped Posting Pods, it isn't actually total liberation It's an asymmetric tool for abuse
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All the chan anon posters have absolute power to use any online-linked tool at their disposal to fuck with anyone who *isn't* a 24/7 poster and *has to have* a real-life, trackable, persistent identity, be they an actual celebrity or just some rando who caught their attention
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
That's the grotesque irony of all this shit That chan boards are known for *being hotbeds of doxing* Same chuds who flip out at anyone knowing their primary email address think they have the constitutional right to post photos of streamers' houses
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
But anyway Pseudonymity as this absolute right, unlike anonymity, is just incoherent It's self-contradictory, it collapses as soon as you try to push it
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