{"id":8380,"date":"2011-08-19T23:34:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T03:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/photocritic\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2014-01-01T11:53:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T16:53:52","slug":"dog-days-2-rights-and-wrongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/photocritic\/2011\/08\/19\/dog-days-2-rights-and-wrongs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Days (2): Rights \u2014 and Wrongs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A. D. Coleman with dinosaur, self-portrait, 8-18-2011.<\/p><\/div>\n

My decision to out one\u00a0IP reiver<\/a>\u00a0and one\u00a0enabler of IP reivers<\/a> has evoked a mini-flashmob response. In addition to Kyle Newberry’s jejune, derogatory email to me<\/a> on this subject, describing me as “dinosaur bones,” this blog has received equally nyahnyah-level comments from other GenTweet visitors who, significantly, lack the courage to identify themselves publicly. Not a portent of worse to come, I hope, though perhaps I risk precipitating that simply by annotating the phenomenon here.<\/p>\n

As a matter of editorial policy I don’t allow anonymous or pseudonymous commenting at this site, as I indicate in “Comments: Editorial Policy.”<\/a>\u00a0Photocritic International<\/em>‘s comment space is reserved for those adults with enough understanding of citizenly responsibility to put their real full names on their comments, thereby making themselves publicly and professionally accountable for their own words, just as I do. Refusal to abide by this rule usually gets such comments relegated to the WordPress trash bin. Beyond that, as indicated on that same protocol page, “If you think someone\u2019s wrong (myself included), prove it with reasoned argument. . . .\u00a0Make your comment, even if brief, a contribution to the discussion. Add some pertinent information, relate an illustrative personal anecdote, explore another aspect of the question under consideration.”<\/p>\n

Here, in their entirety, are two examples of the incoming GenTweet blather:<\/p>\n