Journalists have to exercise judgment about how much to reveal all the time. When there's compelling public interest in the info - publish it. When the only effect of the revelation is harm to a person's privacy - STFU. Saying "the individual involved is a nobody and wishes to remain anonymous" is transparent enough when the person is really a nobody.
It's a "the enemy of my enemy is getting doxxed and doxxing is a problem in general" situation. If the guy was doing marketing and actually revealed his own ID - then the initial report was inaccurate. But in general the media is guilty of revealing too much about the enemies of the status quo and revealing too little about the status quo, so that's the point that matters to me, not this particular guy.
Journalists have to exercise judgment about how much to reveal all the time. When there's compelling public interest in the info - publish it. When the only effect of the revelation is harm to a person's privacy - STFU. Saying "the individual involved is a nobody and wishes to remain anonymous" is transparent enough when the person is really a nobody.
This dude's a marketing professional who used social media to move the market significantly in his favor by influencing thousands of people.
I guess I don't see why his background and identity aren't relevant here. Seems weird to me for leftists to want to protect that guy in particular.
It's a "the enemy of my enemy is getting doxxed and doxxing is a problem in general" situation. If the guy was doing marketing and actually revealed his own ID - then the initial report was inaccurate. But in general the media is guilty of revealing too much about the enemies of the status quo and revealing too little about the status quo, so that's the point that matters to me, not this particular guy.