It was disgraceful for the BBC interviewer to suggest that Darcus Howe
had in the past been a participant in riots. And I'm totally in favour
of the BBC being called to account when it transgresses appropriate
standards of reporting and commentary. Indeed in 2008 a complaint of
mine about
Rick Stevens writes:
Bill does us a great service by keeping the list going.
Asking him to be the PC police or to find PC deputies
and manage them would be more work for him.
Since the complaints seem to be about a small number of
people I am on the side of identifying who you don't want
to hear
I disagree that there are any circumstances under which it is necessary to
respond to these trolls. I find it hard to believe that anyone on TIPS gives
these posts any credence at all. The unintended outcome of these responses is
to give the original posts a much wider audience because the
Can a tipster use an academic institution's computer to filter out and block
messages from an academic related topic a
nd colleague?
I can see the use of filters on one's personal computer but the use of personal
selective filters on a university computer may raise constitutional issues.
I will
I don't want to speak for our moderator or put him in an uncomfortable
position, but my recollection is that the last time there was a flurry of
activity on the list to have this person removed for the same reasons here
(actually I believe there were even more incendiary provocations then), he
