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I'm not naive. I realize there are repercussions to it. It isn't unique in history, and I'm grateful people have and continue to do so.

When you're publishing things about the Mexican drug cartels, you have to expect that you're going to piss off the gangs. That's part and parcel with what you're doing. Unfortunately, it's sort of how progress is made; if you publish something and get jailed, beat up or even killed, that becomes part of your message. I'm not trying to sound flippant. It's reality. What passes for "anonymity" won't save you, and true anonymity makes it unlikely that what you publish can make a difference. Besides, did truly anonymous publishing ever really exist?

When it comes to getting your message out to make a difference (which I assume is the underlying point), fame and anonymity are opposite sides of the same coin. If you can't achieve one, you're best bet is to focus on the other.



The thesis of the linked article is "publishing with strong anonymity is impractical with current internet services".

You seem to be saying "getting yourself beaten, imprisoned, tortured, and killed is just part of exposing corruption, get over it".

I don't see that comment as particularly constructive.


I'm questioning the reason behind the need for strong anonymous publishing, as well as whether it ever really existed.


I don't agree that fame and anonymity are opposed to each other. Most famous writer´s names are just ´handles´ invented for some measure of anonymity.


>Most famous writer´s names are just ´handles´ invented for some measure of anonymity

Most? That is utterly untrue. I bet you'd be hard pressed to name any.

Besides, if you write under a pseudonym, and participate publicly under that pseudonym, you are no longer anonymous.


You probably think it is utterly untrue because you don't even realise that such well known names like Mark Twain, are, in fact, just handles.




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