Category Archives: Crime

Spammers beware

I’ve noticed an increase in blog spam on the site, basically comments that are trying to advertise. This is official notice that such posts are a violation of this site’s service agreement. Any advertising posts (you know who you are) will be removed immediately; your IP address will be noted, and you will be banned from any further posts to this site.

If anyone notices such a post, please e-mail me the URL and I’ll act on it right away. Let me know if you have any questions.

Discouraging Pedophilia?

Can’t make my mind up about this web site, Perverted Justice. There was an article about it on Salon.com (but it’s premium, so the link wouldn’t work here), and it’s basically a site where vigilante types go to chatrooms and pose as underage boys and girls. When they’re approached, they try to get as much information about the would-be pedophile that they can, then reveal their identities and post the whole session on this site. They’re not cops, but they hope to discourage this kind of trolling for kids on the internet. I don’t know whether it works – apparently people find would-be pedophiles on this site and harrass them, too. It’s an interesting approach, I suppose.