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Blog Wars and Dirty Tricks

Blog wars can get nasty, sometimes things get rather ugly and personal. Friday the GayPatriot Went offline. Apparently he identified gay activists and bloggers John Aravosis and Michael Rogers as terrorists. These people have made it their mission to out Republican Gays. Apparently Michael Rogers took offence to being called a terrorist, and went on the offencive.

According to GayPatriot, who is also a client of mine, Michael Rogers called GayPatriot's place of employment on Friday immediately following the post above and spoke to GayPatriot's secretary and boss. GayPatriot had no idea Rogers would go to such measures and shared with me that both he and his secretary were very upset by the calls but that his boss was understanding.

Later on that day, Rogers personally called me and recounted much of the same account, adding that he had also called the police and is working with the authorities on the matter. Rogers expressed feeling threatened by the post and compared it to posts by anti-abortionists who posted the names of doctors performing them.

Rogers also said he asked GayPatriot to remove the post and replace it with a post about non-violence or he would launch a national boycott of GayPatriot's corporate employer and pursue any and all avenues necessary to protect himself. By the time Rogers had called, GayPatriot had already made the decision to remove the post and also remove GayPatriot from the blogosphere.

GayPatriot was silenced.

Now one would think that would be the end of it.

nahh ..
This time he went after Richard Shurbet of LimeShurbet.com, for echoing GayPatriot's earlier post calling Rogers a terrorist for his outing campaign.

Shurbert has a number of posts on the matter up on his site, which was briefly shut down by HostingMatters in response to whining by Rogers. Shurbet also offers this banner for folks who want to protest the misdeeds of Mike Rogers.

Hosting matters did write to the Lime Shurbet folks and let them know that their postings were within the TOS. The net terrorist would not be so effective if providers weren't so quick to pull the plug without investigating.
On a personal note, maybe it is about time I moved to my own domain.

posted by Liberty @ 7:06 PM