> One paragraph after detailing why Scott requested his name to be kept out, the reporter complains about the online abuse he received, which could have easily

> One paragraph after detailing why Scott requested his name to be kept out, the reporter complains about the online abuse he received, which could have easily been prevented by not using real names. This is a false equivalence. Alexander is an author publishing under a pseudonym, plain and simple. Elena Ferrante was "unmasked" and while I'm sure she didn't appreciate it, it's not illegal or even particularly unethical. Somebody published a photo of Thomas Pynchon despite his best efforts to avoid it. Annoying sure but hardly a social crisis. Alexander has no more claim to anonymity than any of the above. If you publish long enough in a public forum to gain some amount of fame, it's unrealistic to expect your identity to be protected from all comers. Meanwhile, a group organized to dox a reporter. It doesn't really matter what the reporter wrote: organized doxxing is deliberate, malicious, anti-social and probably illegal.