Re:Pseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articles
by joemi on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @09:48PM
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I don't really care whether celebrities feel persecuted or not. (I believe there's too much cult of celebrity already, so I do not feel any more sympathy for them than I do for everyone else.) The danger I was referring to is the danger to _anyone_ and the reason behind an academic journal being created to allow regular academics to publish under pseudonyms.
1. There are lots of other cases where we would agree there’s some form of silencing going on, even as a group has many supporters and rich, famous spokespeople
2. In fact, taboo opinions seem to promote a culture of celebrity
3. Fame lets people avoid social repercussions, but that doesn’t mean those repercussions don’t exist for ordinary people
4. If you spend decades inventing a powerful decentralized network to allow unpopular voices to be heard, sometimes you end up with unpopular voices being heard
5. When the IDW claims they are threatened, harassed, and blacklisted, people should at least consider that they are referring to the actual well-known incidents of threats, harassment, and blacklisting against them rather than imagining this is code for “they demand to be universally liked”
6. The IDW probably still censor themselves
7. Nobody in this discussion seems to really understand how silencing works.