6:07 PM me: does CoS go after persons or organizations who have no interest in CoS?
Barrett: not usually
but I've criticized CoS
and have received messages from a CoS member in response
6:08 PM this doesn't mean anyone important knows who I am or cares
but it does mean that we must keep our anti-CoS members compartmentalized for now
6:09 PM particularly Captain Mudkip
of whom they are quite aware
me: his names on the workshop blog, for all to see
6:10 PM Barrett: oops
I do believe that Project PM has some members who do not want to be affiliated with an organization that is in turn affiliated with Anonymous. I do not know whether this is on principle or because they work in settings where they might be disadvantaged by affiliations with organizations engaged in controversy (even if the organization, as here, is the good guys).
So that's the issue as best I can frame it.
What is Scott's risk of having an unwanted connection imputed to him? I would say minimal, but not non-existent.
I will be glad to tell him that is my opinion, if you agree.
I'm in a relationship with Emma and she doesn't care, and Scott certainly knows that we all have other affiliations and history. I explained to Scott last summer that Anonymous isn't a formal group and that at any rate the people I know from it are from the ideological faction. They protest in front of Scientology churches and post anti-scientology material on the internet. Some percentage of them DDOS'd Scientology websites. Eisler and Hastings find the movement admirable and fascinating and so do a lot of others. Anyway, if Scott objects to any of the participants I've brought on he needs to tell me directly; all he's done so far is to point out that a participant has a tenuous connection to a self-proclaimed branch of a non-group that I publicly advocate in articles for mainstream outlets and which is popular among the sort of people we're working with, and I don't know what I could tell him that I haven't told him already. Having said that, if you get the sense that he is still concerned about this, perhaps you can reassure him? And if you think I've gauging this incorrectly do let me know.
Can someone tell me what this is about, I have forgotten everything. Is Shadow a real person or a *bot* whatever that is. Sorry, have the flu. But my dad is Tim Berners Lee so bow. x
No, the changes appear to be fine. I've also made changes to the other document on specs to remove the portion regarding a probationary period for bloggers as per our conversation with Campbell and the others.
So I see Shadow has made some modifications to the Initial Release Spec document Sundeep created.
I didn't notice any gross changes so I assume the adjustments were both minor and benign.
Since I was curious who this Shadow Wednesday was I did some quick Googling and came the conclusion that Shadow is associated with Quebec's branch of Anonymous.
Barrett, I take it I need not concern myself with the changes?