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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @can @MacaesBruno @nytimes

      Not good! NYT lets Bansky have a pseudonym and I know people hired by/write for NYT using a pen name. Short of him being an immediate danger to other humans, no justification here to use his real name even if it wasn't a big secret because NYT will dominate google results.

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    3. wombot  👀‏ @colourmeamused_ 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @can @zeynep and

      YES! I learned this thanks to @luerverte because I put faith in fellow tech people pretending his name is not already public and I trusted them. I'm a fucking idiot. Never again.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @colourmeamused_ @can and

      No, it was not already public in the way NYT can make it! I have lived in these examples for more than a decade now; one NYT type article is make or break difference in visibility. You can go from meh, obscure to okay, have to change whole life because of it.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @colourmeamused_ and

      And having lived through this for a long time in the context of dissidents for whom preserving that friction (even if their identity was not secret secret) was essential to being able to function, I just don't see how this isn't obvious, whatever one thinks of the guy.

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    6. wombot  👀‏ @colourmeamused_ 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @can and

      He's no dissident and his identity is not anonymous, it took me 2m on Google with no background on who he is to find his full name. He wants an anon identity he can create one.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @colourmeamused_ @can and

      And I'm telling you until this, if you googled his real name, you did not get his blog quickly in Google. I'm going to stop arguing; I don't see how on earth "sleuthing from blog would out him" is relevant to what patients who don't already know the blog see on Google.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @can @colourmeamused_ and

      Googling him as a patient would did not turn up his blog quickly, I can confirm as I tried. The levels of publicness make a huge difference in life? I can totally confirm that. And I know NYT allows pen names widely. So which part is not true?

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @can @colourmeamused_ and

      Maybe your history? When I did it few days ago, I saw nothing. When I do it now, remotely suspect stuff (not even direct but hints that might get a sleuth going) isn't there till page seven. One NYT article would change all that. That kind of friction is a huge difference.

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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Jun 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @can and

          Before all this, normal patient that doesn't suspect blog would likely never encounter it. Very different than someone already reads his blog wants to find real name.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Jun 2020
          Replying to @luerverte @can and

          Oh, come on. That is exactly how the internet works. This is exactly the argument platforms use to disregard our right to privacy and level of visibility we are comfortable with.

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