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For me, it's not that The Atlantic is held in disdain but that Schneier is held in high esteem.

No, it was not disdain. I like The Atlantic (indeed a little bit less after reading they manipulated Reddit)

But I read a zillion of posts daily and thought that the author was another opinionated journalist. If I had been more interested I would have clicked in the submission and read it after recognizing the Schneier signature.

Well, they were caught in a vote ring.

EDIT: All the Reddit ban is easy to find. here's some discussion on HN:

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108929) mattobrien submits the same article twice, deliberately evading the dupefilter. The article was written by someone called Matthew O'Brien. Most of his submissions are to the Atlantic.

Hmm. That's unfortunate. Their content is generally interesting - it's too bad they're willing to discredit it with manipulative social engineering.

That, and the Scientology advertisement scandal:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/01/1...