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Originally Posted by BarryRX
Freedom is a messy thing. The web sites you describe pale in comparison to other sites that support pedophilia or are racist. Idiots like the nazi party have a website.
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I agree there are some extremely cruel and nasty web-sites out there. If they are confined to an audience of just a few people though they seem the equivalent say of what a few gossips at a local Villages' pool are saying about their neighbors. And, if they do say something of an actual libelous nature, the parties involved can take them to court. If you want to defend yourselves, you can try on Topix as well.
I got into a 5 year flaming war on Findlaw (2001-2006) with a man who needed my help to find appellate caselaw in his white collar crime defense. He would vigorously attack the Judges in his County on Findlaw as well and other people. I suppose these Judges just let this man blow of steam as no one took him seriously. In a rage, he started attacking me while pretending to be a friend in our e-mail exchanges as well as on his regular handle. I never figured out who this Mr. Hyde like persona was until he started bragging about playing me for a fool around 2005. I must have written thousands of complaints about Mr. Hyde to the Findlaw Sysop; hundreds to others as well like to my US Representative in Palm Harbor, FL and the police departments in both his County in Virginia and the Sheriff's Office in Pinellas County, Florida when I learned about this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde like duality in 2005. I had complained about this Mr. Hyde when I went in person down to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office to complain about various stuff including this Mr. Hyde on September 17, 2002. I also gave them copies of some of the nasty Findlaw messages of Mr. Hyde, they (Detectives Crandell and much later Det. Warner via phone) just said there was a First Amendment right of Free Speech and people say nastier things when they are not face-to-face. I gave them (Crandell) several hundred copies of documents (maybe 200?) I had had picked up in my victims/survivors rights' campaign as well from around 1990 onward. I had bigger fish to fry with these documents but my Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde kept knocking over my frying pan.
I do not believe getting all upset about the equivalent of some boy wrote on a bathroom wall in high school say about the girl who dumped him is all that useful. If there are broader issues involved, yes, get involved. I was on Findlaw for so long because very important issues were involved.
Topix though is one bathroom wall I am not going to even bother looking at. I am quite certain that the more dangerous web-sites are carefully monitored by the FBI, human rights' groups, the CIA if abroad, the NSA, and an alphabet of other organizations including the Southern Poverty Law Center.
http://www.splcenter.org/
On a lighter note, I have been playing FunTrivia Daily Private Tournaments. One of these Private Tournaments has some not-so-good players, so I can win often in that one. I won most of this week and started to get very nasty comments left by some man or woman named Tatty. I think he/she is just trash talking so I am off my game. It worked one day. But, now I am just going to ignore whatever baiting this gamer throws at me. This is not on the TOTV FunTrivia game
http://www.funtrivia.com/private/main.cfm?tid=101297 as there are some very knowledgeable and skillful players on the TOTV Private Tournament. The FunTrivia moderators are great at kicking off anyone who plays dirty but I guess they have no say in the Private Tournaments.