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Funny you mention Wikipedia You said it was “named after a pedophile”, that is wrong >>The word panopticon derives from the Greek word for "all seeing" – pano

• firefax 5mo ago
  >Interesting that you named your HN account after a famous homophobe. that guy is no longer with the project and does brave now iirc (it's super interesting to us that two different people took such a wild leap btw)
  • spelledwrong 5mo ago
    >>that guy is no longer with the project and does brave now iirc Foucault is dead. >>(it's super interesting to us that two different people took such a wild leap btw) It's super interesting to me that you expected people to make the wild leap from “named after a pedophile” to a project that wasn't even named after a person. You chose to communicate poorly to make a point and are now complaining when the point turned out to not even be true. You could have said 'Panopticlick' and people would have known what you were talking about. Instead, you left the name out and instead pointed out the rename and the “fact” that it was previously named after a pedophile. The obvious implication is that it was renamed to cover this up. The smug tone of your follow-up leads met to the conclusion that you had some “fun” trivia from a class you took one time, and you prioritised showing that off over clear communication (while falsely implying some kind of cover-up of wrongdoing by the EFF).