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It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. I think what they're trying to do is meme into existence, this idea that what they call dioxing doesn't work, like identifying people

like this doesn't have any kind of effect anymore. And they're trying to use this as evidence of that.

It seems strange in combination with the idea that it's somehow a

grave offense to identify someone and line them up with their persona, right?

It seems kind of contradictory, but I think that all of it should be understood as trying to

deter this kind of reporting.

Why is it important that people are identified?

I mean, it's not important that

everyone is identified it's not important that like I'm not you know opposed to

online anonymity in principle it the question is more when someone is using their

pseudonymity or anonymity in particular ways, when someone is operating what's becoming an important cultural institution

with political goals, then I think it's a question of whether there's a public interest in knowing who's doing that and why.

Right?

And you know, I was working on this for a really long time and there were a couple of times really where I put it aside because you know it was kind of like well because of me asking myself the kinds of questions you've just asked me you know but really I mean that when I saw him in a duplicitous way directing hostile attention at

events in his own community stuff like that you start to get into questions of

public safety, right?

And so, like, I did think very carefully

about the public interest rationale for this.

And, you know, a publisher with a six-figure turnover

that's rehabilitating these racists and

and conducting a series of community events around the in-person events around the

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