Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
by mrkurt on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:52PM
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I'm not sure how directly the cancelling is affiliated with SSC, but the #ghostnyt hashtag is a pretty good cancellation motion. The only thing that's really reached my bubble has been outrage and cancellation, though.
Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
by whatshisface on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:54PM
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"They tweeted something bad" -> "get them fired," is substantially different from, "the reporters working for this organization are dangerous," -> "don't talk to them." One is going on the offense, the other is defensive.
Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
by charia on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:07PM
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I'm fairly sure that #ghostnyt was a reaction to the NYTimes airing of the Tom Cotton op-ed. I don't doubt that some SSC fans latched onto it, but I'd be surprised if even a third of those using #ghostnyt were from SSC aligned people.
Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
by lkbm on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:28PM
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EDIT: Would work better if I spelled "NYT" correctly. Oops. Still looks like all SA tweets, though[1].
EDIT 2: Whoops, this was meant as a reply to charia's point.
This reply about Scott Alexander appears to be the first usage[0]: https://twitter.com/ChrisSt41125908/status/12755577894154649...
[0] https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2020-06-24%20since%3A20...
[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2020-06-24%20since%3A20...
I saw quite a few people here, as well as the two SSC subreddits, going out of their way to encourage polite outreach to the editor and to avoid antagonizing the actual author. So far as to discourage the naming of the author.
Not denying it may be happening, it just does not seem to jive with the majority response (in my bubble).