Comment by jahaja
6 years ago
Do you guys really feel that you're on the right side of history by harassing an investigative journalist?
6 years ago
Do you guys really feel that you're on the right side of history by harassing an investigative journalist?
Yes. Doxxing people whose only crime is producing good but complex content for the world to enjoy is cyberbullying. If bullies are on the right side of history I have no interest in the metric.
Doxxing, what? What do you think journalism is? It's very common for controversial authors with a very wide reach to be "revealed" and investigated? How do you know that this is "cyber bullying" after just reading one side of the story?
People seem have lost all sense of objectivity due to some sort of idolatry.
Scott is widely known for his impeccable mental honesty, even-handedness, and general niceness. There's a strong prior that what he says is, to the best of his knowledge, both true and presented in such a way as to reflect reality.
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Well, now this 'controversial' author has been silenced; given that it reduced the number of places with better writing than the NYT, I would bet it will be permanent. Is that what you wanted?
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In short: yes.
To expand: nobody here is harassing the journalist. The journalist harassed the blogger. The commenters are providing polite, critical feedback.
How can you possibly know this?
The doubt you are trying to introduce is exactly the doubt that Scott Alexander has about his well being once exposed to the readership of the NYT (or anyone else in the world who catches a whiff of it).
If you think the journalist should enjoy being able to do what they want without an Internet mob, then why wouldn't you think the same way about Scott?
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Harassing?
Investigative?
> Harassing?
What do you expect to happen when this kind of crowd ("rationalists") calls or mail-spam a journalist that's "attacking" their idol?
> Investigative?
Ok, just journalist then, does it matter?