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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You guys just don't like him (fine!) but this is unprincipled and unjustified behavior by the NYT (especially since they don't do it to other people) and if they just get to do this, it's not good news for anyone who would like to have a pen name.
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