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An extremely avoidable tragedy. I can't imagine why NYT wouldn't be flexible about this, they have countless articles about a wide variety of people (actors/performers, other authors with pen names, people with chosen names for a variety of personal reasons, etc) in which they respect the subject's wishes. It seems so arbitrary for them to refuse in this case.

There’s an unfortunate trend of journalists at large outlets gleefully throwing their weight around and being unnecessarily vicious in their treatment of smaller media entities and blogs they perceive as ideological opponents.

NBC was the main entity prodding Google to deplatform Zero Hedge and The Federalist. Similarly there was CNN’s threatened doxxing of meme makers that targeted the brand, and how unified large media were in supporting the internet-wide deplatforming of Alex Jones.

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