firstly, the subject line said, "Activist Curtailed in the US..." not "Activists Curtailed in the US...?" there wasn't one single question mark in bryan's post, let alone a sentence that was a question that lacked a question mark due to typo.
instead, there was a comment, "if this is true...". bryan did not appear to be asking for anyone's help for anything, just distributing information.
then he mentioned that IMC-Israel is on a US server but now he wasn't so sure that was a good idea. in other words, he seemed inclined to believe that IMCisrael might be in trouble _because_ it was on a (fascistleaning?) US server.
thus far, there seems to be no evidence that MER was "suspended" for the reasons the mail implies, does there. is it a good idea to spread rumors around that suggest that the site is down b/c of pressure form the US authorities?
>it's not necessary to light into him to show that there were things he
>could have done that might have answered his own questions. joe obviously
>did that work.
joe didn't light into bryan. joe pointed out that mer.org wasn't even the right address. i don't know what bryan knows, but he must know ppl from indymedia who know just as much as joe does about how to tell if someone's still online or not. hell, i don't know as much as joe, a sysadmin for years, but _I_ know how to find out that kind of information. and _I_ knew before i had a job that required that i learn how.
>if he thought the post was so idiotic, why didn't he just
>ignore it?
why encourage the dissemination of FUD? at times like this? doug already asked that people stop forwarding unsubstantiated rumors.
>or tell bryan what to do? if he's going to do that work, then
>do it in like good faith rather than using it as a stick to beat bryan
>over the head with, which, as it was, makes it seem to me rather as if
there was no stick. it was simply a heads up. mer.org isn't even the right address, said joe, so why should i take this note seriously?
>he did the work just to have the stick. that's what gets me.
>i just think if you're going to have an open community like this, there
>are more important things for people to get pissed off and aggressive
>about.
i think it's pretty important that the left doesn't encourage the spread of fud--like the CNN is using old footage thing. it makes us look like freaked out idiots.
kelley