Saturday, January 26, 2002

Don't know who these guys were, but the FBI has shut down RaiseTheFist.com in a raid of their offices, according to this kuro5hin article/discussion. This may be the first really over-the-top civil rights abuse in the new secret government scheme the current U.S. administration wants to foist on us (not that the last administration didn't share some of the same bad ideas). I'll try to do a little research to see if they were really up to anything nefarious, but from the pages i was able to find in Google's cache of their site, it looked like pretty normal (albeit loud and angry) progressive stuff. There's an effort to mirror raisethefist.com already underway... 3:19:56 PM comment(s)

Jonathan Delacour writes: "The editor of the Sydney Morning Herald might print articles or letters critical of the newspaper's stance on a given issue, but he doesn't have to devote space every day to a column whose sole purpose is to draw attention to real or imagined deficiencies in his business and personal behavior." Personal, no. Business, yes. Of course news media don't have to, but it used to be common for newspapers to have an ombudsman, with a column, whose job was exactly that: to be an independent in-house critic of the paper. Sadly, this practice has nearly disappeared (at least at papers here in the U.S.). More power to Dave for not exercising the power he has over the server that Winerlog sits on to block it. 2:24:54 PM comment(s)