Hogewash! isn’t an anonymous blog. When I started blogging in 2011, I had a discussion with the late Mrs. Hoge about whether the blog should be anonymous. I wasn’t looking for controversy, but I didn’t want her involuntarily sucked into any unpleasantness that might come along. She thought that I should blog using my real name. She even suggest the blog’s name, one that’s pretty hard for me to use anonymously, and she never expressed any regret for her advice.
If you click on the DMCA Contact tab in the menu, you can find my home address and cell phone number. I’m undoxable.
I do have some noms de cyber—for example, I’m @JohnnyAtsign on Twitter—but the vast bulk of my Internet scribblings are openly tagged with my real name.
OTOH, I understand not everyone can safely be as open as I can, so I allow anonymous comments here so long as they don’t involve the use of someone else’s identity and meet the other requirements laid out in The Fine Print.
The recent doxxing of @libsoftiktok by Taylor Lorenz and WaPo was pure cyberthuggery, and the flat out lying about having posted their victim’s personal information is shameful.
But I doubt they feel any shame. Oh, I’m sure they’re displeased with being ratioed on Twitter when they tried to first defend and then deny the doxxing. Discomfort, yes. Shame, no. Next, they’ll move on to claiming that they’re the victims and go on to more thuggery.
Democracy Dies in Derpness™
This Taylor Lorenz is a female version of Bill Schmalfeldt case in point read the email she sent.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1516468103982596101
The very same tactics and self-righteous ignorance. The same misunderstanding of journalistic principles. You are spot on,.
As Glenn Reynolds wrote in a recent op-ed for the New York Post (from memory so this probably isn’t an exact quote): “If democracy dies in darkness, it wasn’t an accident: it was murder.”
I used to be pretty careless about how I presented myself online. Then I learned that there’s an entire side of the political aisle that thinks it’s funny to set their pedophile domestic terrorists against you. I used to consider the Kimberlin/leftism connection as just an aberration, so didn’t hold it against the whole left. Then, well, the last few years happened. Things are pretty clear now.
I consider myself neither right nor left, but I know which side is more likely to use vile tactics against me out of sheer convenience (or maybe joy). FAR more likely. Which is why Kimberlin picked the left to side with.
I use my real name, and always have. Now that I’m retired, I can’t be canceled, and I can’t lose my job due to what I write.
Stacey Matthews began blogging as Sister Toldjah, and there were people who didn’t like her views, and did a lot of research to dox her, so, when she realized that she was about to be unmasked, she unmasked herself. Several other conservative bloggers use pseudonyms, but their real identities are well known.