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Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by mikeyouse on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:00PM (#27912112)
In the abstract sure, but say you're the journalist in question and you discover that a professor at a major university thinks all "muslims are scum" -- is it worse taste to say "too bad about that" and do nothing or take just the barest of steps to ID her and make sure she doesn't have authority over any muslim students without them knowing about her mindset?
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Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by inkblotuniverse on Thursday July 22, 2021 @04:01AM (#27916557)
It's the manner of discovery that's in bad taste, abusing your position that comes with back-end disqus access.

There's a reason certain forms of evidence are inadmissible in court.

(The professor's also at fault for not anonymizing herself better, of course.)

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