Charle Podle is making things up. I did *not* make my name public. EntmootsOfTrolls did, shortly before he theartened to give my identity to Islamic extremists. (Groups that at the time and now, were infamous for murdering those that they disagreed with.)
Mr Natural Health didn't threaten to give me up to Islamists; he coldly told me that he himself was a Nazi, and that he lived near me. That's the same as sending an e-mail to a black in the south that you are a member of the KKK. Its called an implicit threat, and the local police departments take such threats seriously, even if certain Wiki-En members do not.
I am not about to sit back and wait for anyone else to do the same. In the past, it was considered wrong for Wikipedia users to "out" people and put such private information out for others to read. But now that it has happened to me twice, you'd think that people would stop such behaviour? No, instead, Charles wrote falsehoods about me, and ignores the point. I wonder how he would react if someone was bothering one of his friends or loved ones? Oh wait, that's different. As long as it is someone else who is outed and who feels threatened, that's Ok?
No. Its morally wrong when it happens to anyone. It is also a violation of every norm of Wikipedia etiquette, which this list seems to have suddenly forgotten about. It is also probably illegal.
The fact that not a single person here seems to care scares the hell out of me. If it can be done to one person, it can be done to any of us. (Just ask some of the many well-documented victims of the Internet Scientology wars, who have been threatened, stalked, and whose lives have been damaged by maniancs from the Church of Scientology.) This isn't a theoretical issue; its real.
Robert (RK)
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