Comments on: An Apology From Michael Crook

By: Crook is a loser

Crook is a loser — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:06:00 +0000

What a pathetic loser. I feel sorry for his mother. imagine spawning such a waste of life. No wonder his child was taken from him. That will be the best thing that happens to that child.

I pray that someday a crazed vietnam vet takes him out.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:05:00 +0000

Crook looks like those cavemen in the car insurance ads.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:06:00 +0000

hey anonymous, TH can fight his own fights. But let's clear a few things up.

1) I did not "pull a Flickr fight over."

2)I'm not comparing anything besides the language used.

My point, and TH understands this perfectly, is that "censorship" is a loaded term, used to elicit a specific type of reaction. Sometimes it's called for, and sometimes it isn't. I claim no moral equivalence, I was just pointing out TH's cleverness at using the term "censorship" anytime Flickr/Yahoo removes or hides his stuff, but he carefully describes & justifies his own removal of information without using the loaded term.

So let me summarize: I never claimed that what TH did was wrong, I was just pointing out how he never uses the term "censor" to describe his own conduct. To read any more into it than that is to presume things that I didn't write.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:32:00 +0000

seriously jakerome, if you're going to pull a flickr fight over to this arena, at least compare apples to apples.

Thomas Hawk is saying that he 'censored' someone to preserve others from being hurt (namely an innocent ex-wife and child). and you're comparing this to thomas' rant on NIPSA and his Michael Crook essay being torn down?

while I agree that Thomas seems to be frothing too hard about being NIPSA'd since it is in fact reversible and they've admitted it's not a perfect system (not so with what they did to his Michael Crook essay, which I agree with his position on): comparing censorship of something that can only cause harm to what TH is complaining about is making a mountain out of a molehill.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:29:00 +0000

I still think spammers are the most vile form of life on the Internet, far worse than this vermin. Oh yeah, and +1 to jakerome; doesn’t feel like censorship when it’s you at the controls, and neither Y! nor flickr are free speech services so you should give the crying about them a rest.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:06:00 +0000

TH knows what I’m talking about.

By: Syzygy

Syzygy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:15:00 +0000

He looks like he took a few jabs to the right eye eh?

By: Jason Coyne (gaijin42)

Jason Coyne (gaijin42) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:59:00 +0000

The reason his apology isn’t convincing is that it isn’t sincere. Check out the coverage of this story on boing boing. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/14/michael_crook_apolog.html

Also check out his youtube message http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWVJG7lr6UE

and his website advocating the formal removal of fair use rights

http://www.stopfairuse.info/

By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:56:00 +0000

What’s with the guy’s little Hitler mustache?

By: LeggNet

LeggNet — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:29:00 +0000

"...it's only censorship when it happens to you"

Censorship is the removal of information in an attempt to control free speech.

Thomas deleting a comment because it contained personal information that could lead to the harassment and/or possible endangerment of an innocent (albeit related) child is not censorship in my book.