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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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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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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One of those people signed up to exercise public power with public accountability.
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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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There's a reason people drop online handles when things get too hot. Scott Alexander had a particularly coy pseudonym.
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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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