Again, if people want to argue that what he's done is so terrible that he deserves de-anonymization, that's totally different. That's not the NYT claim or position. Other than that, yeah, one's right to a pen name should not depend on quality of prior opsec.
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Zeynep, I’ve had death threats, I’ve had my homedir pastebinned, I’ve had people try to shut my company down, I’ve had people “report” me for child pornography, I’ve had my utilities turned off, and have been confronted in person with violence over things I’ve said online.
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I get what you’re saying, and the case I’m making is that I believe that up to the moment the NYT reporter told Scott Alexander about the article, a reasonable person could easily — after Google autocompleted his name, maybe — concluded S.A. wasn’t even a pseudonym.
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