Except that isn't what's happened here. What's been published in this case, to use your example, is akin to someone saying "If you use this particular format in john, you can identify 4chan users." Nobody who knows what they're talking about has ever considered anything like that egregious; what's egregious is the idiotic self-rolled crypto that these researchers have exposed by doing so.
> Do you or do you not think that it should be acceptable to use language like "d4mn j3ws" in an academic forum?
Of course it's not acceptable. It's not acceptable for any academic to disagree with me period. All those posters need to be rooted out, fired, and blacklisted.
Sorry if this sounds harsh, but you need to have a little more empathy for those aren't part of your "white boys club." Don't you think women and minorities need to know if their colleagues are posting their horribly sexist and racist thoughts online? Read the examples in the paper and then tell me that the colleagues of these people don't have a right to know.
Well, if you don't mind being harsh, I'll tell you this: In your woke-scolding, you are assuming the both the gender and race of the person who you are replying to; probably based on a single comment.