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Picking up what? A blogpost by Preston Byrne? A person you have never heard of until today? Let's take a look at his credentials: "Preston Byrne is a partner
by vb6sp6 5y ago
Picking up what? A blogpost by Preston Byrne? A person you have never heard of until today?
Let's take a look at his credentials:
"Preston Byrne is a partner in the New York office of Anderson Kill. A corporate lawyer with extensive experience working with cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies, Preston is a member of the firm's Technology, Media and Distributed Systems group as well as its Corporate and Commercial Litigation Group. Preston writes and speaks about, and is quoted widely by print media on, technology law matters."
So this blogpost is basically giant hn comment. Any media outlet that "picked this up" would be laughed at. He actually quotes himself at the bottom of the article lol
- tharne 5y agoDon't fall into the trap of credentialism. While the author may not be known outside of the Bitcoin world, he points to a whole slew of public social media posts that clearly show the Taliban usiing a service run by a large American tech company to do all sorts of things that would get most American users banned. Any decent journalism outfit should at least dig into that a little bit - perhaps reach out to Facebook and ask if they had noticed any of this. After all, this was the same company that didn't see anything unusual about American political ads being purchased in Rubles back in 2016.
- Koiwai 5y agoI suppose he meant the fact that whatsapp is used by taliban.
- tribeofone 5y agoMore impressive then some of the 'Journalist' that have articles posted here from Axios, Atlantic, NYT, etc who's only credentials are that they are warm bodies willing to shill for whoever will pay them most.