All four of them gave totally different explanations, disagreeing about whether the reporter I dealt with was just following the rules, was flagrantly violating the rules, was unaffected by any rules, or what. I got emails from no fewer than four New York Times journalists expressing sympathy and offering to explain their paper's standards in case that helped my cause. So many people cancelled their subscription that the Times' exasperated customer service agents started pre-empting callers with "Is this about that blog thing?" A friend of a friend reports her grandmother in Slovakia heard a story about me on Slovak-language radio. I had, not to mince words about it, a really weird year.ĥ13,000 people read my blog post complaining about the New York Times ' attempt to dox me (for comparison, there are 366,000 people in Iceland). I accidentally sent about three hundred emails to each of five thousand people in the process of trying to put my blog back up. I lost a five-digit sum in advertising and Patreon fees. I wanted to avoid losing my day job, but ended up quitting so they wouldn't be affected by the fallout. I wanted to protect my anonymity, but I Streisand-Effected myself, and a bunch of trolls went around posting my real name everywhere they could find. I wanted to protect my privacy, but I ended up with articles about me in New Yorker, Reason, and The Daily Beast.
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