Archive for September 7, 2010

“Credit” Where It Is Due?

by John Weckerle

Editor’s note/update: Gadabout-blogalot.com editor Chuck Ring has challenged us on our forensics in this article, stating that “you have used resources to mis-identify people who have nothing to do with the email address you are dogging.” We beg to differ, and offer the registration information as support:

East Mountain Tea Party Domain Registration Info

East Mountain Tea Party Domain Registration Info from GoDaddy whois; phone number redacted for privacy.

A few days ago, we published an article on the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan that was a response to an article on the East Mountain Tea Party web site, and had an exchange with someone calling themselves “East Mountain Tea Party.”  This person’s comment was also posted on the East Mountain Tea Party site under the name “teapartynm.”  We challenged the person to identify himself or herself, and thus far, there has been no such identification.  Neither is that person identified on the East Mountain Tea Party site; rather, the pseudonym “teapartynm” is used.

We fully support people’s right to state their opinions.  However, it’s important to realize that, while the Constitution may guarantee the right to do so, it doesn’t necessarily guarantee the right to do so anonymously, and given the rather controversial views expressed, we decided to do a little digging and see what we could find out.  Actually, we found out quite a bit, but we will for now stick to just trying to identify the person who posted the original article on the East Mountain Tea Party site and commented on ours.

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