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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Have you warned DCUM's moderator that a journalist is going to contact him to ask for everybody's IP addresses?

And then Homeland Security or NSA or somebody is going to help the journalist out by linking the IP addresses to names?

It seems much more likely that various posters are, you know, married to Muslims (you know there's one of those), ex-Muslims (somebody on another thread recently identified themselves as one) or grew up in Muslim countries. Plus, most everybody here can use google pretty well.[/quote]

This thread has been reported to me a couple of times now. So, let me weigh in.

I was contacted by a poster who asked if I was okay with a reporter writing about this thread. I have no problem with reporters writing about any thread here. To the contrary, I encourage it. My only request is that DCUM be given fair treatment and not reduced to a single, easily-mocked, dimension. When I replied to the poster in question, I mentioned that I have seen no evidence of an organization being behind the postings here. In almost every case that someone makes a reasonable argument that a thread is being sock puppetted or trolled, I will do a cursory review of the posts for evidence of such abuse. If the cursory review suggests abuse is going on, I will did deeper. However, in the case of this thread, I have personally interacted with many of you and you are familiar to me by your posting style. So, I don't even feel the need to do a cursory review. Nor have I done one.

If a reporter contacts me, I will be happy to discuss this or any other thread with the reporter. I will not reveal IP addresses or other identifiable information about the origin of the posts unless, unexpectedly, I did discover that an organization were behind the postings (such a finding will be unlikely given that I have no plans to check).

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