Monthly Archives: March 2015

Suggested Patreon :P – Matthew Hopkins News and The Big Hat

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The Big Hat. This is a proof of concept logo. Yes, I know it is badly drawn – merely a proof of concept. It is a nice, reassuring shade of black though.

The Witchfinder is semi-seriously considering a Patreon and inviting his many kind supporters and fans to support him.

Your Inquisitor has a development project in mind. It is a crowd-sourced neighbourhood watch tool for Twitter. Basically, instead of having a huge Orwellian block list, it would work a bit more like a friendly neighbourhood watch team.

The underlying problem with all the current block list services is that they involve maintaining large lists of blocked persons. This is quite problematic because obviously there are those who may misuse their power to add to the lists. In addition, the Twitter API rate limits blocking so specific blocking software can have insurmountable technical problems. For example, a blocking engine with 10,000 blocked users would take over a week to block them all for a new user.

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Rattled @TheBlockBot Team Issue Statement Clarifying, “I end careers” Tweet as Joke … Just After Excluding Opponent From Equalities Project

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The Witchfinder General notes with amusement the increasingly frightened spinning from the owners of the @TheBlockBot project. Recently, James Billingham’s Block Bot has come in for criticism from feminists, Conservatives and trans-people alike for excluding people who have plainly done nothing wrong.

IEndCareers

This tweet is now claimed to be a ‘joke’. But as Sally Bercow found to her cost, just because something is a ‘joke’ does not make it lawful.

In November 2012 Sally Bercow, wife to the Speaker of the House of Commons, tweeted this – “Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*”

It was plainly a joke, but in 2013 the High Court ruled it was also a defamatory allegation that Lord McAlpine was a paedophile. The ‘joke’ left Bercow with a bill in the region of £100,000 and forced to make a humiliating public apology, despite having the support of the best libel lawyers in the County, Carter-Ruck. [Personal interest note – Carter-Ruck once provided your author with free legal advice pro-bono, before he began legal training]

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Exposé – #TheBlockBot Creator Featured on BBC is Troll, Claims He Viewed But Did Not Report ‘Kiddy Porn’

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In this video the Witchfinder exposes #TheBlockBot creator James Billingham, who claims to be against trolling but admits himself on his own website that he deliberately engaged in the practice. Billingham also claimed that one site he joined contained, to use his words, ‘Kiddy Porn’ and whilst he trolled them about it he did not report it. Even if the material was in fact legal these revelations reveal Billingham as a vile, morally bankrupt hypocrite.

IMPORTANT NOTE – Only the public member information of the Atheism Plus forums has been uploaded. No private street addresses have been retrieved or shared. The lists made available for download below were legally obtained using screen scraping tools as set out in the video and are fully compliant with UK and US law.

The author asserts the journalism exemption under s32 Data Protection Act 1998.

Title music – The Escape – (c) – Machinimasound (Commercial license purchased)

The Atheism Plus Forum Member list as a CSV file

The Battle Against NyanCat
It turns out that www.oolon.co.uk had code that blocked Webcite and Archive.today by replacing the  content with images and the sound of NyanCat. Fortunately, their competitor FreezePage worked and enabled an accurate forensic record of what the page looked like. Thanks FreezePage! A well deserved premium subscription purchased!

Trolling the Slymepit – *  http://www.freezepage.com/1425251697SYXBOYRAQQ  *

(Failed webcite and archive.today citations for interest. Fans of Nyancat will enjoy)

James Billingham. Trolling the Slymepit – Oolon\\\’s Blog. Oolon.co.uk. 2015-03-01. URL:http://www.oolon.co.uk/?p=94. Accessed: 2015-03-01. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6WhhqDKqW)

Archive.today – https://archive.today/lRzKz

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