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Illegibility As Defense - by Sammy Cottrell

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Sunlight Considered Harmful

Illegibility As Defense Sunlight Considered Harmful Sammy Cottrell May 11, 2026 2 Share Epistemic status: Probably 80% right, not sure which 80% A lot of communities are defended not through existing legal systems, or public systems of assigning guilt and responsibility, but through informal, private whisper networks—even, sometimes, when dealing with actual criminal behavior. Those networks tally up accusations—if someone has, say, an abusive pattern of behavior, eventually their victims will talk to their friends, and their friends will talk to others, and if these incidents become common kn

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