I fully understand your feelings, but I've read the other side, too, and his justification was that he had observed something that went far enough against human decency that it should be brought out in the open.
As I did not see the deleted comments, I cannot profess an opinion on that. I applaud his courage, though - apparently it was not done lightly.
The discouraging thing was that his violation of etiquette (yes, it probably _is_ a copyright violation, but how many things do we see published and discussed that were not intended for public consumption? And aren't there rulings that if it's in the public interest, exceptions might apply?) was compared to Harlan Ellison's groping of Connie Willis in severity of offense, and *that* I just cannot support.
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Date: 2006-09-06 04:27 pm (UTC)As I did not see the deleted comments, I cannot profess an opinion on that. I applaud his courage, though - apparently it was not done lightly.
The discouraging thing was that his violation of etiquette (yes, it probably _is_ a copyright violation, but how many things do we see published and discussed that were not intended for public consumption? And aren't there rulings that if it's in the public interest, exceptions might apply?) was compared to Harlan Ellison's groping of Connie Willis in severity of offense, and *that* I just cannot support.