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Slate Star Codex update: NYT still at it, reopening on hold

• hartator 6y ago
  Some context? [Edit] > NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog Ref: https://slatestarcodex.com/ https://slatestarcodex.com/
  • eindiran 6y ago
    There were a few recent threads that provide some additional context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23913340 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23913340
• w0de02 6y ago
  I’m not particularly impressed by Alexander refusing to put ‘skin in the game’ when it comes to his public and only perfunctorily anonymous writings. This all seems very petulant.
  • aneeshm 6y ago
    What's your name?
  • prepend 6y ago
    This is a curious comment as skin in the game doesn’t mean entire body in the game. I think Scott Alexander exhibits skin in the game through the risk that he has with the site in general.
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• badRNG 6y ago
  I'm sure I am opening myself up for some "whataboutism" criticism, but there does seem to be a discrepancy between the respect this site shows for Brian Krebs and the support shown for SSC in the face of NYT intentionally planning to doxx Scott.
• iron0013 6y ago
  He’s really milking it, isn’t he
  • kemonocode 6y ago
    His blog, his rules. Regardless on the merit of his claims (at this point everybody knows who he is and if anything he'd be bringing more attention to his RL identity by continuing to pull these stunts) it's still appalling that the NYT insists on applying that double standard of protecting identities only when they please.