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Still not a weblog, darnit By: Mark Morgan on 4/26/2000; 6:30 PM Oh, all right, once in a while I'll just point at something: The Free Network Project. I'll have some more comments later, but there is always a trade off. We have people on Voices of Unreason who choose to protect their privacy under pseudonyms, all for good reasons, and I respect that. In fact, from the very beginning I've been advocating Macrobytes to create a way to completely hide your e-mail so that your comments can remain private, and they are working on it. I take privacy seriously. The reason I use my name is because I want everyone to know that I am taking responsibility for what I write. If I write a criticism of Marilyn vos Savant or Roger Black or Tom Willis, they know who to come to when they object. In a completely decentralized, anonymous system, if you defame someone or libel someone or post false charges of child molestation about someone, where's the responsibility? Walter Cronkite couldn't go on national television and call the President a rapist; he had to take responsibility for what he said. I try to follow similar journalistic integrity. The other authors are not remaining anonymous to make anonymous attacks, but for other reasons. Around here we take integrity seriously. On the Free Network, where's the integrity framework? Art Bell chose to retire because of personal attacks on his character. What evil could be wrought behind the complete anonymity of the Free Network? Or am I just a naive defender of the old order, doomed to be washed under the bridge of the new?
RE: Still not a weblog, darnit By: Seth Dillingham on 4/26/2000; 7:46 PM
>In fact, from the very beginning I've been advocating Macrobytes to We're almost done with it, too. It'll be ready Thursday or Friday, I think. Seth
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