“Jared’s My Space was taken down but it exists in some files as screenshots.”
In the hours after the event, people like you found a huge amount of info about this maniac, copied it, and has it available if you look or ask.
To the opposite of your lead comment, never before could common folk find such information so fast and so complete about a crazed loon. Instead of waiting for an investigation’s sanitized report, FReepers are, over and over, on the forefront of digging up info, writings, and connections long before normal reporters and investigators can find the same. Go thru the threads posted within the first few hours on FR: it’s one exclusive report and finding after another.
Yes, sanitization follows. Myspace takes down his site - not out of malice, but out of overloading traffic and bad publicity. Contact info is delisted - the living don’t want thousands of yahoos filling their inboxes. Spin is spun - and then unspun as we who do know can speak up loud and fast.
If not for us peons and the Internet, he would be a confirmed rightwing operative. Instead we proved, unstoppably, he was a left leaning crazed loon.
I know that you are absolutely right about the bloggers on Free Republic. I’m just at a loss to understand how public information, posted news articles and all manner of of information can be “scrubbed” in such short order or how “puplic” information can suddenly become “secret”. I suppose I don’t understand that because I’m not a lawyer.
Perhaps I’m overreacting and being too Orwellian. How tedious to have to sort through a bunch of garbage only to find out that the official looking document you are looking at has been faked! We have our finger in the dyke now. How long can we continue before the dam breaks? The enemies of free speech get more cunning every day.