Re:Slate Star Codex must remain anonymous
by davidgerard on Sunday June 28, 2020 @07:08AM
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I'm not even involved with this SSC takedown thing, and I got a call from the NYT on Friday asking about it, as an expert on the rationalists and on neoreaction.
Scott and his fans have absolutely turned it into a story now and attracted 100% of the NYT's attention. Doxing the journalist will do that.
Scott did not doxx the journalist. He encouraged people to send polite and appropriate feedback to NYT editors-- so it makes sense that this is getting their attention.
Re:Slate Star Codex must remain anonymous
by davidgerard on Sunday June 28, 2020 @07:33AM
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His fans absolutely did, this is a thing that happened.
(I also submit that this was absolutely predictable, unless you assume there are zero overenthusiastic fans of a popular site. Putting a call to action was going to lead to this result, even with a "please be polite" disclaimer.)
There's been one person doxed in the course of all this, and it's the journalist, not Scott.
Why would Scott delete everything and put a lynch pin on something that is really minor for the NYT to do in the scheme of things if he is really worried about thing Y?