Subject: go get 'em |
From: William Walshe <billywalshe@gmail.com> |
Date: 6/22/11, 16:52 |
This isn't an attempt to troll you. Any response to this e-mail will stay strictly off the record. Unlike John Lovegrove, I understand what that means. When I apologized to you, there was probably a need for a /sarcasm. I wouldn't make a sarcastic apology, that is below me. Believe it or not.
I've taken up the banner of the worst in internet "journalism," the epicenter of which is hacking and cyberactivism (much better term than hacktivism, amirite?). I don't expect you, of all people, to appreciate Chronicle.SU. It is a bunch of unresearched and poorly written garbage based only on absurd conjecture. This should make the skin of any serious journalist crawl. I'll admit that it's probably only funny in a kind of random hit-and-miss way. Yes, the the irony of spamming AnonNews wore off quickly. I really try to avoid tiresome irony in my writing, but gosh if the self-promoting Kilgore Trout bastard in the back of my mind didn't find that AnonNews shit endlessly entertaining. AnonNews was really more fun when it was more like /b/ and all the ideology trolls evoked a truly anarchic dialectic where everyone was proven miserably wrong. I miss the heated debate on what Anonymous really stood for. The natural evolution of thought progressed from abject idealism to provocative post-modern thought in a few months. It was truly amazing to participate and witness the "trolling" that went on when press release submission was open.
Nothing I ever wrote was intended to get at you, personally. The intention was really to make a statement about all the people who misrepresent you so unfairly. Anyway, I think you're at a much better capacity as an independent journalist, rather than as a spokesperson for a group that doesn't want to be called a group (Okay, you got me, I admit that this was possibly a parallel intention). But what do I know? As such, I will repeat my apology. Sorry for throwing you under the Anonymous bus. You do good work as a journalist and as an activist. I'm also sorry I tried to get you fired from a joke position in Ian Murphy's serious congressional campaign.
BTW, this is off the record. LOL. I'll use my scary government affiliation to force pastebin to delete it all if you don't follow my personal information control fiat. Obviously I am a government psy-op, as are you.
P.S. I can't follow you on twitter but th3j35t3r can. :( forever alone :(