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Re: Side Note Beth's site is down
I don't know this person, but I believe that Sullivan and the other sites were out of line. They weren't attacking her position at Microsoft. They weren't attacking a specific essay or posting. They were attacking her. Your being pissed was actually a decent thing. But backing down because Dave calls you was bluntly, wrong. Would Dave had called you if she wasn't a woman? Would the issue had even risen? Would the parody had happened if she had been a man? However, the point is mute as she has taken down her weblog. I think that all involved can take pride in silencing a weblogger. Well done, folks. Way to show the world how really fucking good you all are. You know, Doc, regardless of this particular story, I did want to say that I don't worry about your values being compromised because of your professional affiliations. But it sure seems to me that your writing is getting 'edited' quite a bit, lately, by Dave Winer. Last time I looked, good, bad, or indifferent, we can each write our own viewpoints. And we can agree and disagree. You wrote what you did, and Dave disagreed, and that's cool. And Dave has this thing about anything to do with woman must therefore be a anti-male thing, and unfortunately, that's Dave's problem. But, Doc, I've seen you back down on your writing twice in the last week because of a call or direct contact from Dave. This does me begin to question your objectivity. There are responses to this message:
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