Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
by whatshisface on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:57PM
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I'm confused, are you agreeing with Scott? Both of you have last names that are "easy to find," but neither of you are purposely making it easily available. You both believe that there is a difference between "technically can be found" and "is printed everywhere my pseudonym is." If I were to write your last name in this comment, I would be going against your implied wishes, where your implied wishes are visible because you didn't write it in your comment.
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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
by mrkurt on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:05PM
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Is the bar for doxing really that low now? My last name is not private. Nor is Scott Alexander's.
My implied wishes (and really, his wishes) aren't terribly important. If either of us do something newsworthy, it's not doxing to attach our name to the news.
Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
by ardy42 on Monday July 20, 2020 @10:59AM
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> Is the bar for doxing really that low now?
Also, if merely linking a real name to a pseudonymous online identity is doxing, then Alexander self-doxxed himself by republishing one of his SSC posts under his real name (while noting their origin) in book published by Springer.
An accurate definition of doxing would contain several components, a few of which would be: it's not doxing if you make the link yourself, and it's not doxing for a 3rd party to repeat the link you made (akin to the first sale doctrine).