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Anyway, they take PayPal. I sent ‘em $25 and highly recommend others do likewise.

HondaV65 on March 24, 2009 at 9:15 AM

The secret of maintaining civility on blog forums is not revealing real names; it is active moderation.

/Mr Lynn

Where are our resident shit spewing Canadian trolls? I know they’ll justify this, but I still want to see it on record.

csdeven on March 24, 2009 at 9:29 AM

At their jobs at the HRC.

Canadians – either fight for your privacy with words and legal documents now…or fight for it with guns and explosives later. This is crunch time.

- The Cat

Dunno … I’m thinking I’d like to see an end to all anonymity on the web.

I don’t go quite that far, as I think there are too many who would hunt you down to harass you–or worse–if you said something they didn’t agree with (read: prop 8 opponents in CA). But I do agree with the concept of not putting anything out there that you wouldn’t want everyone to know was said by you. I have occasionally googled myself to find comments I made 10 years ago on one board or another. Things never really go away.

The government official whose edict blocked the website probably needs to remain anonymous. I imagine that the judge’s quote wouldn’t have whatever intended effect he’s going for if it read “so controversial that career government worker Mr. Dudley Doof entered the website into the government computer network’s Net Nanny software”.

This way it seems like some kind of God blocked the website. At least in the mind of the typical Canadian that the judge is trying to convince.

On the other hand, many decent posters use the anonymity to protect themselves from retribution. We have some profs here at HA whose jobs would be at risk if it was known they posted at HA. Not because of anything shameful they’ve said here, but simply because this is a conservative site.

JadeNYU on March 24, 2009 at 9:27 AM

When identities are revealed, ACORN will probably organize bus tours for thugs who want to light their houses afire.

If that isn’t enough for you, go back and look at some of the videos of shrieking moonbats going after Michelle.

If you say something – you ought to be proud of what you said. When I worked at the White House with Bush 41 … We had a saying … “Don’t do anything in your private life that you would be embarrased to read on the front page of the Washington Post”. This became known as the “Washington Post Test”. Seems if more people lived by this credo – this would be a nicer world – and this nation wouldn’t be as polorized as it currently is.

HondaV65 on March 24, 2009 at 9:15 AM

Wow. Just wow.
If we lived by this credo, yes, it would be a nicer world… at least, to your face. Look, I’m all for people being respectful to each other and for honor and morals to be the law of the land. However, when the Government is the one dictating what the code of honor is, and which way your moral compass should point… then you are NOT living in a free society, but in an open air prison.
What needs to happen, is people like us need to spend less time posting crap on the Internet whining about Liberals this, and Liberals that. We need to get involved with our local politics, we need to have families and raise them with honor and morals, and we need to teach our children from an early age that we almost lost the essence of this country because WE got selfish and worked all the time instead of having families and being involved in OUR government. We DO NOT need the government telling us how to live, rather we need to BE our government.