Slashdot Genuflect

So, I've been tracking the hits for the "Google Spam Filtering Gone Bad" report. Up to this evening, it was about 500. Then it became one part of a collection of follow-up notes on Slashdot ("Slashback"). Below the fold (ie, you have to click through).

More than 500 hits in a few hours. It won't be ten thousand, but I guess it'll be 1500.

Thanks, you-know-who. I appreciate it.

Sigh. I really want to write to the management of Slashdot:

[begin fantasy]

C'mon guys, help me out!. For example, I spent hundreds of dollars, which was out of my own pocket, while unemployed, to go do DMCA testimony. Over the years, I've poured a huge amount of work into preserving net freedoms, at an enormous cost to myself.

Yet Michael Sims, who outright domain-hijacked Censorware Project's website, is being _de facto_ supported as a Slashdot "editor", and given the ability to rant and make personal attacks on the front page to hundreds of thousands of people. He's already been ruinously destructive, from the domain-theft to even breaking trust with sensitive legal material. It's no paranoia at all, it's already happened.

This is the real world here. It's not a trivial flame-war where we turn-off our computers, and go out for a beer later. People get sued. Even jailed!

RESPECT. It's the lack of respect, on many levels, which bothers me so much.

[end fantasy]

But if I sent that, I'd probably get in trouble. I've learned better.

This is why I've quit.

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