They also said that in the past day or so (upon becoming aware of the contents of the post), they asked Ben to delay his publication of this post by one week so that they could gather their evidence and show it to Ben before he publishes it (to avoid having him publish false information). However, he refused to do so.
This is really weird to me. These allegations have been circling for over a year, and presumably Nonlinear has known about this piece for months now. Why do they still need to get their evidence together? And even if they do—just due to extraneous circumstances—why do they feel so entitled to the piece being held for a week, when they have had ample time to collect their side of the story.
To be clear I only informed them about my planned writeup on Friday.
(The rest of the time lots of other people involved were v afraid of retaliation and intimidation and I wanted to respect that while gathering evidence. I believe if I hadn’t made that commitment to people then I wouldn’t have gotten the evidence.)
This is really weird to me. These allegations have been circling for over a year, and presumably Nonlinear has known about this piece for months now. Why do they still need to get their evidence together? And even if they do—just due to extraneous circumstances—why do they feel so entitled to the piece being held for a week, when they have had ample time to collect their side of the story.
To be clear I only informed them about my planned writeup on Friday.
(The rest of the time lots of other people involved were v afraid of retaliation and intimidation and I wanted to respect that while gathering evidence. I believe if I hadn’t made that commitment to people then I wouldn’t have gotten the evidence.)
Thanks—more sympathetic to the ask in that case, though I don’t think you were obliged to wait.