one thing (to play devil's advocate for a second) that stands out to me as a possible shred of evidence to show that @honeyscribe, etc. are NOT written by @kushed, but are indeed separate individuals from another account...

I think you're misunderstanding the post. I'm not claiming that @kushed wrote any of these posts. The purpose of this was to highlight the fact that these two accounts are being operated by the same person, but pretending to be two different people. They were deceiving readers/curators and being upvoted by the same whales. The data that I presented here was in fact accurate - as both @honeyscribe and @kushed admitted.

Now, the problem isn't that this user is anonymous. I couldn't care less about anonymity. The problem was the deciet and the collusive voting. @kushed knew that these accounts were the same person posting essentially the same type of posts every day, but he (and his friends) were upvoting these posts - knowing that they were the same person. Once it was publicly exposed that these two accounts were the same person and were taking in rewards from the same whales every day, they finally admitted it.

However, they're now claiming that it was a safety issue and that her identity is at risk because of what I did - which is preposterous. There is not one shred of her personal information presented here. The only information that I have about her was information publicly provided by @kushed in RocketChat about her being a professional blogger. There was no "safety" risk from either myself or @bacchist. In fact, the person who informed us about her non-Steemit identity and was questioning her about her identity, and then passing that information along to us, is one of the people commenting on her post in support of her.

I never insisted on verification because it was never the issue at hand. I was looking at links between the multiple sock accounts and the whales upvoting them. They are numerous. This was only one piece of the puzzle. In the coming days, you'll get a more complete picture about who these socks are...and about previous socks that people identified several weeks back. I'm confident that the data collected will paint a pretty clear picture of the culprits, including the ones mentioned in this post and who are now claiming innocence. This was never just about @honeyscribe, @perspective, and @kushed - but they are certainly involved in the deceit and collusion, admittedly.