Comments on: An Apology From Michael Crook

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:41:55 +0000

so what if that is what he did. any perv trolling the net looking for little girls needs to have their lives ruined…. Chris Hanson and Dateline NBC do it all the time

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?