hmm
@NRO has a piece out, specifically a NYT hit, has some good context around anonymity policy and its history at NYT
nothing new to SSC that I know of, but it names names like @CadeMetz, @puiwingtam, @CorbettNYThttps://www.nationalreview.com/news/what-a-nyt-reporters-doxxing-threat-says-about-the-papers-standards/ …
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also
@RT_com from earlier much lower quality welphttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1275495528906678272?s=19 …eigenrobot added,
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@CharlesFLehman at@FreeBeacon very good coverage and context, commentary from SSC and Scott Aaronson@nytimes SCOOPED and boy crazy how easy it was to just use a pseudonymhttps://freebeacon.com/media/well-known-blogger-shuts-down-site-for-fear-of-nyt-doxxing/ …6 replies 19 retweets 131 likesShow this thread -
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@CharlesFLehman is willing to take commentary from informed people, and I'll suspend "Don't Talk To Reporters" this once (but please be careful even so) Charles, I trust you will advise anyone who reaches out on downside risks.
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interesting note these are /alumni/ tho imagine things look different inside https://twitter.com/CharlesFLehman/status/1275529044017197061?s=19 …
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hmmmm this has been in the works for a while (I think? No idea how long it takes to write a story) curious anglehttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1275543764614987778?s=19 …
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Paul GrahamVerified account @paulgThe "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. pic.twitter.com/XexQVtnmLlShow this thread3 replies 0 retweets 42 likesShow this thread -
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@MarcHochstein and@CoinDesk come out swinging, using as a case study and discussing their own policies seems like this is congealing into a story about newspapers and pseudonymityhttps://www.coindesk.com/why-coindesk-respects-pseudonymity-a-stand-against-doxxing …3 replies 9 retweets 60 likesShow this thread -
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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 10https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1275550404508618752?s=19 …eigenrobot added,
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I dearly wish
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this is scotts fault imo. would have been better to just take the blog down temporarily and not say anything but making an Announcement Post meant people started rallying around it which naturally led to it appearing on orangesite and getting written about etc etc
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Complex sentiments but I think it was probably inevitable. :/
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