2 Responses to “What is wrong with people?”

1. Nashville is Talking » Smoke and Ashes Says:
   March 26th, 2007 at 3:38 pm

   [...] “Those who use blogs to terrorize others should be subject to the same laws as those who use other means for such activities.” [...]

2. rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s weblog » Blog Archive » Inconvenient Truths Says:
   March 28th, 2007 at 8:31 pm

   [...] Something about Kathy Sierra’s post the other day regarding the harassment and threats she’d received and my reaction to it has made me think of John Seigenthaler, Sr. I live in Nashville and have admired John Seignethaler for three decades, I felt sickened when I learned from a now-famous editorial he wrote in USA Today in December, 2005, that someone had maliciously libeled him in an entry on Wikipedia. Shortly after that editorial was published, I lamented such an attack on the character of a noble individual like him. Yet I thought then — and have said in several public places since — if Seigenthaler had not amplified the libel, it would have been seen by a dozen or so people, tops. Because he chose to make it a cause, it will go down as one of the most famous wikipedia entries of all time — and one day will be an unfortunate lead item in his obituary despite a career of great journalism and public service. For rather than raise the concern of people with the downside of Wikipedia, Seigenthaler raised the awareness of Wikipedia. Indeed, last August, I heard Jimmy Wales claim the Seignethaler controversy increased the traffic to Wikipedia three-fold. Sometimes, you just have to learn how to ignore the bozos of the world. (Again, I am in no way suggesting Seigenthaler’s decision to use whatever means he had to defend his honor was wrong — I can’t say I would have followed my own counsel to ignore the crap on Wikpedia.) [...]

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