Scott Alexander: "NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog"

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[–]Chipit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh man. This is fucking terrible. SSC was a fantastic blog, one of the few still worth reading. He had really interesting ideas and a diverse (in the good kind of intellectual way, not the skin color kind of way) commenter group.

Fucking journalist. Fucking New York Times. Is there anything they can't ruin? When will these fuckheads face justice?

[–]jamesK_3rd 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They do this a lot. Usually it's like where they destroy that kid from Iowa who raised beer money to give to children's cancer Center, and those they do it to typically have no ability or following to fight back.

They picked The wrong one this time. Even Russ Roberts of econtalk has sounded of about this