Time to prosecute the Free Republic vandal outright. (Vanity)

today | By Lazamataz

[sageb1]

Has Jim Robinson given us any of his thoughts on this? I'm just wondering.

[Skooz]

I have a strong suspicion that he used to be one of our own who posted here for awhile and was banned.

I would almost bet money on it.

[Lazamataz]

He probably uses a random IP generator.

Never heard of such an animal. One needs an IP to receive back information when you do an HTTP GET or HTTP POST. Without a true IP (ie, a random one), your information will never get back to you.

[davidosborne]

BTTT !

Track and Prosecute James54

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?name=James54

David

[mhking]

This merely demonstrates how sick homosexuals really are and why most are only a step away from pedophilia or child rape. Most people have been duped into thinking that the Will and Grace show represents the homosexual world--this filthy degenerate posting is closer to the truth.

There's nothing in that moron's post to indicate that he's gay or anything else. He posts offensive pictures. Period. He makes racist statements. Period.

Please don't hijack this into some sort of crusade against gays.

It serves no one and detracts from the actual message -- getting rid of this particular offensive individual.

[mhking]

I haven't seen the pics today, but I can make a guess, based on last time. "Tubgirl?"

Yep.

[RadioAstronomer]

Did anyone else experience an automatic redirect to some Spanish speaking website?

Run a virus/trojan check to make sure a trojan or keylogger was not loaded on your machine!!!!!

[hispanarepublicana]

I'm just posting meaningless replies to folks now so these will scroll off my ping page.

[hispanarepublicana]

Thanks. Just replying for the sake of getting these scrolled off my ping page.

[G.Mason]

" ... this is a political website. His comments were, at their core, political, if offensive. It's my understanding that political speech is particularly protected by the First Amendment, and broad latitude is given to the speaker."

I have seen words to that effect, in this thread, by others.

I may be naive, but I cannot believe any jury could be cajoled into believing that post was political in content. Whether it could ever get to that state (trial) is quite another thing.

[Lazamataz]

There are anonymous proxy servers listed

Can we not use these lists or some internal property of said server to deny access by anonymous and high-anonymous proxy servers?

[RushCrush]

What about internet bullying/harassment laws?

[Skooz]

Let me do my part to help.

[gridlock]

One possibility would be to allow any user to temporarily delete any < img src=""> post via the abuse button, pending expedited review by the AM. I know that this would be an impediment on the free exchange of ideas, and people could abuse this privilege, but the cure is better than the disease, IMHO.

Also, if the AM decides that somebody has been maliciously abusing this privilege, that account could be suspended, as well.

If we all had this ability, these posts would last a matter of seconds. I have no problem punching the [ABUSE] button when something pisses me off!

[HairOfTheDog]

Just click 'brief'. you don't have to have your page on 'full'

[tutstar]

I saw one of the posts. It was horrific!

[NeoCaveman]

I'd be willing to bet this is the same troll who used to screw up threads with scrolling marquis. I think that was a couple of years ago.

[Lazamataz]

I have a strong suspicion that he used to be one of our own who posted here for awhile and was banned. I would almost bet money on it.

That would merely make my pursuit of his prosecution a little more vigorous.

[mhking]

the issue is whether he did anything for which he may be prosecuted.

Harassment would probably be a civil action, but I'm sure he could get nailed on federal hate speech/crime statutes.

[Skooz]

I am glad I was not on it's ping list.