Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> writes: > Of interest: > > • Why Can't You Be Normal? > http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/why_cant_you_be_normal.html > > • Ban Xah Lee > http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/ban_Xah_Lee.html > > I consider this post relevant because i've been perennially gossiped > about in comp.lang.* groups today and in the past 5 or 10 years, many > of the threads mentioning my name are not started by me nor did i ever > participate. > > Plain text version one of the above article follows. > --------------------------------------------------- > > Ban Xah Lee > > Xah Lee, 2009-03-07 > > This page is a short collection of online communities that banned me, > in a way that i don't consider just. It illustrates the political > nature among the tech geeking males. > > HARASSMENT BY JOHN BOKMA > > I was harassed by a newsgroup poster John Bokma (a regular of > comp.lang.perl.misc) to have my web hosting service provider kick me > off. This happened in 2006. > > Summary: I was posting relevant but controversial opinions in a rude > manner to “comp.lang.*” newsgroups. I was using Google's newsgroup > service to post it, and has nothing to do with my web hosting service > provider, other than my signature containing my website or links to > relevant articles on my website. However, this guy digs up my web > hosting provider, and lobbied people to send complains to kick me off. > > Detailed account: DreamHost.com and A Incidence of Harassment > > WIKIPEDIA > > My Wikipedia account P0lyglut is banned by Wikipedia admins in > ~2008-06 for a month or so. > > Summary: i was editing articles on Tibet, Human sacrifice, Dalai Lama, > citing info from Chinese historian Li Ao, and was fighting with those > who revert me in a non-conformal way. They banned me for editing, and > subsequently banned me from editing my talk page, and removed the > defense i gave on my talk page. > > The original reason for reverting my editing was that i linked to my > own website (which contains the collected videos of Li Ao's program on > youtube, with English translation and summary). Subsequently, because > i did not behave in a way that seems “polite” to them, and kept on > fighting, the reason they cited to ban me was spreading propaganda. > > For some account of this incident, see bottom of: Why Can't You Be > Normal?. The fighting and discussion can be seen on my talk page, at: > User talk:P0lyglut. The writing where i defended my edit, that got > removed from my talk page, is here: Wikipedia User talk:P0lyglut ... > 2008-07. Local copy of these at: Wikipedia_ban_2008-06.zip. > > FREENODE IRC EMACS CHANNEL > > I'm banned on Freenode's irc emacs channel since about 2006-10, and > the ban was never lifted as of 2009-03. The ban is primarily, and > single-handedly executed by John Sullivan (aka johnsu01). > > Some detail: Emacs Irc Channel Ban On Xah Lee. > > HACKER NEWS > > “Hacker News” website, at http://news.ycombinator.com/, banned me > around 2009-02 or earlier. > > Someone posted a question about why some sites seem to be banned, > titled “Ask PG- What is the list of banned sites and why are they > banned”. He asked for reasons or a public list. The url is at Source. > (local archive: Hacker_News_xahlee.org_ban.zip) Then, someone posted > the list of domains/sub-domains that are banned, which contains my > site “xahlee.org”. > > No explicit reason is given. It appears to me, it was banned because > one of my essay: Why Software Suck, has been submitted to the site in > 2009-02, then in the discussion, someone mentioned i am a troll, then > admin placed my site on ban. > > There are other bans that i consider unjust. This page is a start to > list them. I'll try to add more when i have time.
Don't worry, Xah. At least, my minds is running on your rails. Please do not stop. BTW, what do you think about using Gnus instead of G2/1.0? Sincerely, -- Byung-Hee HWANG <b...@izb.knu.ac.kr> ∑INTERNET: <URL:http://izb.knu.ac.kr/~bh/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
