Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
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#2So the playbook is to denigrate SSC by conflating his (granted, self-imposed) deplatforming with Srinivasan and Lorenz’ Twitter spat.
Clever, likely effective, if not ethically and logically dubious.
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#3Not that the NYT has any business printing somebody's name who doesn't want it to be printed, but I kind of feel like he had been looking for an excuse to shut down the blog for a while - it had been a long time since any of his posts really felt inspired like they were even a year ago. This gives him an excuse to make a clean break.
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#4Watching people who hate cancel culture try to cancel the NYT is hilarious. Watching them try to cancel individual NYT writers is gross.
All because Scott Alexander retroactively decided his last name is private information and threw a tantrum.
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#5If you enjoy reading SSC and want to show some form of support, consider adding your signature to the petition[0].
It's a small thing to do and only takes a little time to complete.
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#6NYT can talk a big talk but... if your source wants to remain anonymous, why still expose them?
What a sorry excuse for journalism.
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#7>Alexander, whose role has been to help explain Silicon Valley to itself, was taken up as a mascot and a martyr in a struggle against the Times, which, in the tweets of Srinivasan, Graham, and others, was enlisted as a proxy for all of the gatekeepers—the arbiters of what it is and is not O.K. to say, and who is allowed, by virtue of their identity, to say it.
Oh, the irony! The same journalists who report primarily, nowadays, on who next to be canceled due to "problematic" views they may have had years or decades ago now feel that _they_ are having their journalistic freedoms called into question. As though that would not _necessarily_ follow.
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#8Wow, this is pretty juicy. I’m surprised that this hasn’t gotten more traction on HN considering the community, plus with Paul Graham / Sam Altman having already directly spoken out in support.
Does anyone have links to the Twitter threads mentioned in the articles? Twitter’s direct search querying is pretty terrible.
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#9Watching people who hate cancel culture try to cancel the NYT is hilarious. Watching them try to cancel individual NYT writers is gross. All because Scott Alexander retroactively decided his last name is private information and threw a tantrum.
Where is this canceling occurring?
I saw quite a few people here, as well as the two SSC subreddits, going out of their way to encourage polite outreach to the editor and to avoid antagonizing the actual author. So far as to discourage the naming of the author.
Not denying it may be happening, it just does not seem to jive with the majority response (in my bubble).
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#10A very drawn out low-spark attempt to whitewash the attempt by a NYT reporter to divulge (de-anonymize in their parlance) the person behind the blog by hiding behind speculation ('would the nyt really do that?') and semantics...
Journalism continues to go downhill and doesn't have a way to stop the trend.