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by kristopolous 1948 days ago
Yes, I wrote an article about it over 10 years ago.

It made the front page of a number of social media sites like reddit. Then, nearly simultaneously they were all removed.

I didn't even post the article. It spilled there from I think a Google plus post.

My candor was apparently off.

I'm certainly not a psychologist. I meant no harm but clearly I did something wrong. There's probably tripwires to his condition I simply don't know. I might have crossed them. I never got an explanation but it's fine. Lesson learned: people with any kind of disease/disability should be added to things to stay away from writing about without the proper co-authors. Sorry about that, internet.

I voluntarily pulled it shortly after. I'm not going to hurt someone for imaginary internet points.

The interesting thing though was the implied coordination between the platforms. It may have been a coincidence, may have been real,

I wouldn't be surprised if somebody with administrative power from all the major ones are on some chat server together. There's certainly a spillover effects between them.

Honestly I haven't tried that kind of journalism in a while. Apparently I'm pretty good at, well at least the "making stuff popular" part.