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It's Thursday, February 15th, 2018. From Slate, it's the GIST.

I'm Leon Nefak, filling in today from Mike Pasco.

So before the school shooting in Florida, the thing I couldn't stop thinking about was the

career of technology writer Quinn Norton. On Tuesday, it was announced that Norton was joining the

New York Times editorial board. Then she would serve as the paper's lead opinion writer on the power,

culture and consequences of technology. The hire was initially celebrated by many journalists

who knew Norton's work from wired, where she wrote about the hacker group anonymous and hacker

culture in general. After the Times announcement, people on Twitter started circulating pieces

that Quinn Norton had written in which she described a notorious neo-Nazi internet troll as her friend.

They also circulated an essay that she had written in which she referred to an actual Nazi,

like a member of the Nazi party as her personal patron saint of moral complexity.

It was also noted that Norton seemed to freely use a slur for gay people on Twitter during

heated debates, a practice that my colleague April Glazer described in a terrific slate piece

is a relic of Norton's time on hacker message boards, where the word was used differently.

As April wrote, Norton's use of the slur was an expression of her radical privileging of free

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