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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 23
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      Why the weird flex @nytimes? Why does telling whatever story require doxxing a blogger with legitimate reasons for being pseudonymous.https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deleting-the-blog/ …

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 23
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      If Scott’s account is accurate, and I have no reason to doubt it, this seems like a purely arbitrary act of random violence.

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        1. Marcello Herreshoff‏ @mherreshoff Jun 23
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          I trust Scott not to lie. I don't necessarily trust the reporter not to lie to Scott about his intentions.

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        2. Meng Weng Wong‏ @mengwong Jun 23
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          Devil's advocate: should journalists publish the real names of police officers allegedly overstepping their professional bounds? How are the situations different?

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        3. James Tinged Words‏ @nullary Jun 23
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          One of those people signed up to exercise public power with public accountability.

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        2. Adolf Richter Brill  🐮‏ @typhoonjim Jun 23
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          Is it, though? This seems like a cautionary tale about raising your online profile. Maybe best not to do it, and the destruction of SSC, as much as I personally hate that it happened, is just a necessary act of pseudonym maintenance.

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        3. Adolf Richter Brill  🐮‏ @typhoonjim Jun 23
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          There's a reason people drop online handles when things get too hot. Scott Alexander had a particularly coy pseudonym.

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        2. antimule‏ @antimule Jun 23
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          What do you think was a motive here? Ideological disagreement (Scott is heterodox and not always liberal) or that he is competition for readers?

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        1. Somatic Historian‏ @ScottParkCO Jun 23
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          https://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2020/06/a-blind-life.html …

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