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It's insane that this article outs one of the alleged victims based on other's account of what happened even though she herself declined to comment.

Women should be given the freedom to disclose these things on their own terms and this has been taken away from her.

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> Women should be given the freedom to disclose these things on their own terms

All people, not just women.

So this is to say that if a person involved in a crime refuses to comment on it, nobody should be allowed to? And as we are a society of innocent until proven guilty -- in cases where somebody is accused, should the media not be allowed to publish corroborating statements until the accused has had their say on their own terms?

I can certainly see an emotional argument for what you're saying, but logically I don't think this is very cogent.

Yes, I believe that journalists should not be basing their reporting on hearsay.

I think there's a logical argument to be made that if you have one victim who does not wish to speak publicly but multiple other women who will, you respect the privacy of that woman.

one of my first thoughts reading this article - aren't there journalistic standards around things like this?

Yeah I really don't get it. It's not like the accusations from the multiple women who would speak on the record weren't damning enough.

But the author decided to open the article with secondhand accounts of abuse towards a woman who did not want to speak about it.

It's very poor journalism.

But it's super trendy to report on sexual misconduct these days, and no news outlet is going to sacrifice clicks for victim freedoms.

It's not trendy it's a much needed discussion that is a long time overdue. Don't diminish it by labeling it as trendy.

much needed thing can be trendy.

Don't diminish it by labeling it trendy.

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