The legal exposure they're opening up is irresponsible to the business, aside from the betrayal of trust to their readership. All of us developers here know how

The legal exposure they're opening up is irresponsible to the business, aside from the betrayal of trust to their readership. All of us developers here know how easy of a workaround this is even without making mods to a SaaS app that they have no control over. Just convert all old legacy comments to new faux accounts. The SaaS provider can do this with a script, or the newspaper could just do this all my hand in an admin UI. None of this makes sense. It's pure laziness.