Sheldon Rampton wrote:
Jesse Alter wrote:
The user RachelCorrie is using their user page to
show photos of Rachel
Corrie and links about her death. She died while playing chicken with an
Israeli bulldozer, in protest of the destruction of Palestinian
settlement. The user has made no contributions other than turning their
user page into a non-NPOV memorial to Rachel Corrie. I move that the
user be banned. If their IP can be matched to another user, I think that
the user should be warned against doing that in the future.
OK, then, while we're at it, I move that Jesse Alter be banned too. He
is using this listserv to make NPOV comments about the death of Rachel
Corrie ("died while playing chicken"). Granted, there's no rule
against POV on the listserv, but there's no rule against POV on a user
page either. If we're going to ban RachelCorrie over this, I think
it's only fair that we should ban Jesse too.
Ouch! You got me!
This is the same Jesse Alter who previously rose to
the defense of
Vera Cruz/Lir, right? Hmm....
Well, actually, I'd like to (posthumously) withdraw my objection to
Lir's banning. I've found through conversation with Lir that they ARE
posting as Susan Mason, and they are making personal attacks on people
and they're lacking a uhh...cooperative spirit.