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Rate My Cop... Is it really isolated if it's nationwide?
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Binky .357
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Post subject: Rate My Cop... Is it really isolated if it's nationwide? Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:31 pm |
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Joined: Tue May 30, 2006 3:02 am Posts: 816 Location: South of the River Suburbs
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Quote: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com -- Update
By Kevin Poulsen March 11, 2008
Categories: Censorship, Cover-Ups
A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.
Visitors to RateMyCop.com on Tuesday were redirected to a GoDaddy page reading, "Oops!!!", which urged the site owner to contact GoDaddy to find out why the company pulled the plug.
RateMyCop founder Gino Sesto says he was given no notice of the suspension. When he called GoDaddy, the company told him that he'd been shut down for "suspicious activity."
When Sesto got a supervisor on the phone, the company changed its story and claimed the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, a claim that Sesto says is nonsense. "How can it be overloaded when it only had 80,00 page views today, and 400,000 yesterday?"
Police departments became uneasy about RateMyCop's plans to watch the watchers in January, when the Culver City, California, startup began issuing public information requests for lists of uniformed officers.
Then the site went live on February 28th. It stores the names and, in some cases, badge numbers of over 140,000 cops in as many as 500 police departments, and allows users to post comments about police they've interacted with, and rate them. The site garnered media interest this week as cops around the country complained that they'd be put at risk if their names were on the internet.
"Having a website like that puts a lot of law enforcement, in my eyes, in danger because it exposes us out there," Officer Hector Basurto, vice president of the Latino Police Officers Association, told ABC television affiliate KGO.
Since undercover officers aren't in the database, and the site has no personal information like home addresses, that fear seems unfounded. Chief Jerry Dyer, president of the California Police Chiefs Association, voices what sounds like a more honest concern: that officers will face "unfair maligning" by the citizens they serve.
Sesto says police can post comments as well, and a future version of the site will allow them to authenticate themselves to post rebuttals more prominently. Chief Dyer wants to get legislation passed that would make RateMyCop.com illegal, which, of course, wouldn't pass constitutional muster in any court in America.
Unfortunately for the startup, the company it chose for hosting is known to be quick to censor its customers. In January of last year, GoDaddy took down entire computer security website -- delisting it from DNS -- to get a single, archived mailing list post off the web.
On that occasion, at least, it gave the site's owner 60 seconds notice. GoDaddy notified Seto by posting its "Oops!" message to his public website.
"You put on my website for me to call you, when you have my phone number?," says Sesto.
A GoDaddy spokeswoman says the company can't comment on the RateMyCop takedown due to its privacy policy. Sesto says he's already arranged hosting elsewhere, and hopes to have the site online Tuesday night.
Geez... there's so much wrong with this, I wouldn't even know what parts to put emphasis on...
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Jeff
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:53 pm |
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Joined: Sun Aug 07, 2005 10:57 am Posts: 270 Location: Western Hennepin County
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I couldn't decide if I should have posted this: http://www.twincitiescarry.com/forum/vi ... php?t=8100 here is Isolated Incidents or where the post is now...
_________________ All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. - Thomas Jefferson
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Binky .357
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:08 am |
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Joined: Tue May 30, 2006 3:02 am Posts: 816 Location: South of the River Suburbs
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Good point. I didn't notice it there. I guess I thought "Isolated Incidents" is a perfect forum for discussion of what seems like widespread supression of free speech and the crybaby attitude bad cops and "delicate flowers" is exposed.
It reminds me of the old chestnut, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
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"We're either gonna be the best of friends or there's gonna be a whole lotta shootin' goin' on."
"I think it's a good thing for serving cops to mix with non-cops in a situation where they understand that they aren't in charge." -JoelR
"You'd be amazed at the things a bullet can stop." -Old Irish Proverb
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kimberman
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:48 pm |
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Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:48 pm Posts: 2782 Location: St. Paul
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How can you have an effective "police state" if the police can't hide from accountability. There is NO accountability inside the police (just watch the MPD's internal affairs unit whitewash a complaint or two) so there must be accountability outside.
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