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by adeaver 4691 days ago
In the age of the Internet will that actually work though? It would be be that hard to find the names.
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I believe there can be a significant difference between "Jennifer Hepler, Employee, BioWare" and "Jennifer Hepler, Writer of this specific character you hate on this specific game, BioWare".
The internet allows for a fairly "shotgun" approach when it comes to abuse. But, maybe it would be beneficial to spread the abuse out instead of allowing it to focus.

Though, there is still doxxing. You can't rule out that that information is in some way discoverable regardless.

You'd be surprised how difficult information is to get when it's not explicitly presented. The belief that the "information age" is inherently informative is a false assumption. Plenty of companies have staff directories but they don't explain the roles of each individual member. Jennifer Hepler can be presented as a creative member of Bioware working on something in some capacity.