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I was just wondering the same thing.
Exposing the wealthy is pretty standard journalism
HN now has a massive boner for billionaires, everybody imagining they’ll become one someday. It’s pretty sad
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The NYTimes infamously doxxed Slate Star Codex[1], despite him basically begging them not to because it would upend his psychiatry practice, back in 2020 for no reason other than because they could. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416
One of their journalists also doxxed Naomi Wu, intruding on her personal life, making her lose her income, and possibly getting her in trouble with Chinese authorities: https://x.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1209815150376574976 The journalist themselves is a real piece of work: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/463503-sarah-jeong-out-at... Kinda goes to show you the kind of people who write these stories. Ethics haven'…
Btw I don't know how closely you follow Naomi Wu, but take that with grain of salt.
(def. not defending bad journalists)
Naomi has huge youtube and she is very public figure in Shenzhen.
She has very weird opinion on Chinese government, she acts to like it but on the other hand with her sexual orientation (which was public knowledge, plastered all over reddit, twitter etc. way before any articles) and her admitting to bypass Chinese firewall etc. which is illegal.
Kinda weird, to do this, when you're public person.
And weirdest of all, she has/had Uyghur girlfriend and she basically said, that because of us (US/EU people) boycotting China for Xinjiang concentration camps for Uyghurs, nobody in Shenzen wants to hire Uyghur people, so WE are to blame.
I don't know if she really meant it, or she'd post it to twitter to suck Chinese government, you know what.
Imho, with grain of salt too, I think she was partially managed by Chinese agency way before any articles, and they got angry because she was unable to steer the article to "China great, West is bad".
Because I have experience what Chinese agencies are willing to pay for mediocre influencers in my small EU country (10mil. people) just to visit China and make videos how they're "great". And they have 1/10 following of what Naomi has.
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#603Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exposing the wealthy is pretty standard journalism
And if this guy isn't Satoshi? And if he comes to harm as a result of someone believing the NYT?
Come now, don't be absurd. The NYTimes has hard hitting evidence to back up their accusation, like "He shifted in his seat when asked about this."
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#604Satoshi supported big blocks in his writings and empowered the pro-big block Gavin when he disappeared. Adam is a well known supporter of small blocks, ultimately the "winning" side of the debate. They are not the same person.
Did you miss the part where Satoshi came to Adam's rescue, to thwart big blocks? https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/6EC9DDF352DC4838AE9B088AB37...
it was probably not the real Satoshi, but a scammer. they are pretty common in there.
https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/55D1C81D.4070402@olivere.de...
https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/1c295af4831b1a0f6fc85dc6dab...
Re: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
#605Simple question for anyone who’s familiar with this world of journalism: how does the author and the NYTimes cope with the fact that making such claims paint a huge target on the person they claim to have “unmasked”? Satoshi’s wallets are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and there have been kidnappings/torture/murders for much less than that. Do they just not care about the ethical implications? And really, for…
Are you implying there is an inherent right for public figures to hide their wealth, “for security reasons”? WTF?
Most people think that, otherwise tax filings would be public (like they are in some places iirc).
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Well given they have hunreds of millions of dollars to protect themselves with, it seems like it would be a good time to start using it.
Satoshi cannot spend his fortune. If he did, it would be visible on the blockchain and bitcoin's price would collapse.
That’s not how you use that kind of wealth. You take loans with the fortune as collateral… come on that’s pretty basic stuff
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Case studies are done with consent, typically. That’s pretty different.
In principle, anonymized case studies do not require consent and historically, they were often published without. Without personally identifiable information, this is and always has been 100% legal. But in modern practice, many journals acknowledge that making a case fully anonymous in the age of the internet might not even be possible without taking away everything noteworthy, so they require some form of consent no…
It’s been known since at least the 90s that it’s really hard to fully anonymize patient records. You can’t be certain but you can infer probabilities from very little information.
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Then the person who harmed him will be prosecuted. And life will go on. The NY Times isn’t calling for violence.
Consider the following hypothetical: you have a safe in your home with a substantial sum of money in it, and you consider its presence, the location and contents private knowledge. However, someone uses publicly available information to infer the rough location and contents of your safe and makes it public. You are robbed shortly after. What percentage of responsibility lies with that person?
Alternatively, you don't even have that money, the journalists hallucinated the whole thing, so when the home invader breaks in and starts torturing you, there's literally nothing you can do to save yourself as they cut off pieces of you little by little.
But don't worry, they'll definitely solve this crime, because the clearance rate for impersonal crimes that don't involve family, friends or business associates is famously high. ...oh wait.
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Why should journalism engage in the implied pro-active censorship here? With that reasoning you could censor everything, including the Epstein files. You only need to find some "critical reason", usually being safety concern or "but but but the children". So I disagree with that rationale. How far would you want censorship to go? Having said that, I am not particularly interested in the "who is mystery man" debate si…
> Why should journalism engage in the implied pro-active censorship here? Because in this particular case it endangers subject's life.
Lol you guys are really in a cult aren’t you? You’re implying that journalists should never out people that are too wealthy? Do you not see the massive red flag here?