Bob Schroeck Wrote:I'm just concerned about one thing. Some of the people there seem to be taking it rather personally that I'm not vanishing into the outer darkness, wailing and gnashing my teeth like a good little ban-ee ought to, but am instead sitting on the edge of that outer darkness watching what they're doing. Unlike them, my entire life is in the open on the web, from my wife's name to my employer. I'm just worried that one of them might decide to attack me a bit more directly than by saying nasty things in ATT.
While I can't say that such a thing can't happen, I'll point out that it's substantially easier to attack somebody online than it is to attack him offline.
And online attacks rarely have long-term consequences. (Remember back in 2006, when somebody decided to smear my good name online? It didn't take, despite the police getting involved.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012