Possibly naive question: if Non-Linear have material that undeniably rebuts these accusations and they only need to sort it out/organize for presentation, why not publish it in a disorganized/scrambled format, sort it out later and then publish clean/sorted out version? In this way, they will at least show that they’re not scheming anything and are honest about why they asked Ben to delay the post.
I don’t know, but I know that negotiating confidentiality is a major part that often takes a lot of calendar time. They might have emails or text chats from people that they would like to share, but they first need to get permission to share, or at least provide adequate warning. This can definitely take a few days in my experience.
It might simply take a lot of time to track it all down. If there was one big Google Doc with all of the relevant information in a disorganized/scrambled format (and it didn’t have other information, such as someone’s social security number), then it might make sense to share the messy information and organize it later. But what is more likely is that there are tidbits of information scattered across dozens of email threads, chat groups, slack channels, Google Calendars, etc., and that merely copying and pasting a bunch of stuff into a messy Google Doc would take many, many hours.
That’s an interesting idea, but presenting information badly is a good way of ensuring people tune out when you present your final version.
I wonder about versions of this scheme where someone holds an unorganised version in escrow to be released alongside the organised version?
However, I’m not really sure if that would work either. Suppose you might have relevant texts where it isn’t clear whether they contain confidential information or not. Like in some cases, you may actually need to have a discussion about what is okay to share and what is not. Just quickly dumping a bunch of information out there is an easy way to accidentally do further harm.
Disclaimer: Previously interned at Nonlinear. This comment previously said that I didn’t have knowledge of what information Nonlinear is yet to release, but then I just realised that I actually do know a few things.
Possibly naive question: if Non-Linear have material that undeniably rebuts these accusations and they only need to sort it out/organize for presentation, why not publish it in a disorganized/scrambled format, sort it out later and then publish clean/sorted out version? In this way, they will at least show that they’re not scheming anything and are honest about why they asked Ben to delay the post.
What am I missing?
I don’t know, but I know that negotiating confidentiality is a major part that often takes a lot of calendar time. They might have emails or text chats from people that they would like to share, but they first need to get permission to share, or at least provide adequate warning. This can definitely take a few days in my experience.
Makes sense, thanks
It might simply take a lot of time to track it all down. If there was one big Google Doc with all of the relevant information in a disorganized/scrambled format (and it didn’t have other information, such as someone’s social security number), then it might make sense to share the messy information and organize it later. But what is more likely is that there are tidbits of information scattered across dozens of email threads, chat groups, slack channels, Google Calendars, etc., and that merely copying and pasting a bunch of stuff into a messy Google Doc would take many, many hours.
That’s an interesting idea, but presenting information badly is a good way of ensuring people tune out when you present your final version.
I wonder about versions of this scheme where someone holds an unorganised version in escrow to be released alongside the organised version?
However, I’m not really sure if that would work either. Suppose you might have relevant texts where it isn’t clear whether they contain confidential information or not. Like in some cases, you may actually need to have a discussion about what is okay to share and what is not. Just quickly dumping a bunch of information out there is an easy way to accidentally do further harm.
Disclaimer: Previously interned at Nonlinear. This comment previously said that I didn’t have knowledge of what information Nonlinear is yet to release, but then I just realised that I actually do know a few things.