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That’s a trick question. The answer is “absolutely nothing”, but an anonymous blogger at Law Is Cool thinks otherwise. Why would he think that? (I assume the blogger is male. My apologies if that’s not the case.) Let’s try to follow his convoluted train of thought, such as it is.
Yesterday’s announcement at Law Is Cool that no further items about the pending kangaroo court proceedings against Mark Steyn will be posted was prefaced by bizarre allegations that Steyn supporters had hacked the site.
The administrator of this site informed us today that, based on posting patterns, content, and [lack of] use of validated accounts, he has reason to believe that someone is impersonating this site. He has theories as to what end, but to us that really is immaterial.
Earlier this week this site was hacked. Certain plug-ins were uninstalled (spam filters), comment features changed, and passwords altered. We reappropriated the site from the domain server and reset everything.
Here’s where the Diocese of San Joaquin gets dragged in.
Perhaps this was done in perceived retaliation for problems on other sites supporting Steyn.
The word “problems” links to a page at Surrounded, the blog of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin, where is told the sad tale of how Classical Anglican News Net (CaNNet) was destroyed last November by a malicious hacker who wiped out CaNNet's server and off-site backups. (The story is also told here and here, and I added my two cents’ worth here.)
So, does the anonymous Law Is Cool essayist really believe that someone from the Diocese of San Joaquin hacked his site last week because the diocese supports Mark Steyn and wanted to retaliate against Law Is Cool’s anti-Steyn bluster posturing argumentation? That seems a stretch, given that Mr Steyn’s name has never been mentioned at Surrounded.
Nevertheless, the anonymous Law Is Cool blogger and like-minded anti-Steyn Muslim law students are intent on shutting up Mark Steyn and others who insist on freely exercising their rights of free speech. San Joaquin is now in their cross hairs.
The Diocese of San Joaquin should hire a lawyer ASAP to defend themselves against a complaint about to be lodged with the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
h/t: Free Mark Steyn
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Classical Anglican News Net (CaNNet) was destroyed last November by a malicious hacker who wiped out CaNNet’s server and off-site backups.
That’s a good trick. How’d he nuke the off-sites? Sheer brain power?
mojo,
Beats me. Read the whole story here.
This keeps getting more and more bizarre.
For what it is worth my bet is that the lawiscool people shut down their comments on Steyn related posts and were astonished when trackbacks - mostly unflattering - kept appearing on the site.
Being baby lawyers the immediately over-reached to the implausible conclusion that they had been hacked.
If only they knew that the combined tech skills of Mark, Kathie and myself are pretty much at the “cut and paste” level they might have looked at less sinister explanations a bit more closely.
Liberal MP Keith Martin acts to defend freedom of speech…
I add my voice to the choruses of “Bravo!” rising from the Canadian blogosphere.
MP Keith Martin (Lib - Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca) has launched a private members’ motion to repeal the section of the Canadian Human Rights Act that empower…
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