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Samuel Henly is Eigenrobot

Eigenrobot, the pseudo-checkmark twitter user, is Samuel Henly. He is pseudonymous because this allows him or his friends to circulate rumors about other people, as identifying the origin of the rumors would require mentioning real names. He will say that realnaming him is "doxxing"; it is not . Doxxing is revealing a dossier of information about someone, not just their real name. Samuel had the audacity to say that anti-doxxing was a " sacred norm of the internet ". It wasn't and isn't. It certainly wasn't when the internet relentlessly ruined Jessi Slaughter 's life, which is world's worse than anything Samuel has had to deal with from revealing his real name. It wasn't sacred during the days of encyclopediadramatica, which was when Andrew Auernheimer  was in his heyday. This new definition of "doxxing" to mean just saying someone's real name is an exaggeration on the level of activists who want speech to be violence. It will