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The Digg Patriots Investigation: How We Exposed DiggGate

Background on why one or more members of the Digg Patriots turned their compatriots in and started working with the investigation team to end the obsessive personal attacks, censorship attempts, and seriously depraved YouTube cyber terror.

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Surviving Is Your Personal Responsibility

Surviving Is Your Personal Responsibility

By Brian Brawdy In his new book Obama’s Wars, Washington Post Columnist and perennial White House fly on the wall Bob Woodard writes that President Obama believes “We can absorb a terrorist attack.” As many in the media line up to slam him for his comments, there are now reports on the wire of a […]

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Cyber Terrorism Ring Revealed – Part 2: Our Response to Intimidation Attempts

The article previously published here seems to have caused certain individuals (previously exposed in the Digg Patriots article here) – especially one in particular – to unsurprisingly decide to once again to try to do exactly what has been done before as part of DiggPatriots, and attempt to censor and “force” removal of anything that reveals their participation in malicious activity. Instead of confronting or replying to the issues, R.J. Carter (formerly CaptCarrot on Digg.com), decided to resort to making demands, that I assume were supposed to be intimidating. They weren’t. If he believes the truth to be defamatory, its defamation by his own doing.

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Cyber Terrorism Ring Revealed: A Case Study In The Depths Of Depravity

Below is an extreme example of behavior on YouTube that goes well beyond cyber bullying, and could very easily more appropriately be labeled cyber terror. Extreme taunting of a boy who lost his mother, rape victims, and suicidal teens has no place in the world in this editor’s opinion, and the anonymity of the internet is no excuse. In a world where people refuse to speak out against such depravity (regardless of political ideology), it is allowed to flourish, and has very real-world consequences.

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Beating Pens Into Plowshares

The biggest problem confronting a timely exit from this recession is the GOP exploiting easy political targets. Instigating a populist revolt against deficit spending when they should be working to fix the mess that they made.

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