Right? 

Or are you just being obtuse (or insincere) again?

His garbage would sometimes pop up in forums that had nothing to do with atheism, much like Zumabot’s would pop up on Thanksgiving posts. This indicates that he would run some sort of platform-wide searches (e.g. on search.wordpress.com) for his hobbyhorse terms, dive into the forum in question to dump his screed without really looking at the thread, and then jump out to continue his “work.” I agree that the actual act of posting wasn’t automated.

The cut-off taglines you mention also may be artifacts of an automated post-building system that reaches a character limit — it may be as simple as a MS Word macro. I’ve also always suspected Markuze’s asterisks might be more than stylistic tics, and that they’re separators for chunks of text that are mixed-and-matched to give the posts some semblance of variety. Spammers do this all the time in an effort to avoid having their posts caught in filters, but lose coherence and flow in process.

Markuze was not as sophisticated as Cosar. The automation that fueled Zumabot’s comparable productivity was compensated for in large part by obsessive insanity and likely drugs. But there are signs that he did use some (though admittedly not “a lot of”) automation tools in a crude way. Even a drugged-out maniac has a limit on his time resources.

http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/operation-archangel-david-mabus-dennis-markuze-montreal-arrested/

As the guy who supplied the forensic data to the police both times he was arrested, I do agree he did a poor job covering his tracks.

Laws against “uttering threats,” in other words, are not about the “uttering” but about the “threats,” which at a certain point become more than words. By your black-and-white formulation, laws against blackmail and extortion would be prohibited.

He’s calling this particular view simple-minded, as in simplistic, which is often the case with black-and-white formulations. And he’s correct.

Why would he do that? He knows it’s wrong to do that.

Death threats are not a protected speech, sorry.

“Are you suggesting that if people are aloud to write whatever they like on the internet the next thing you know they’ll be bombing universities?”People who make death threads are much more likely to go through with them, yes.

“Would boingboing be writing an article with the same tone had the guy been attacking the hard-right or creationists?”

Don’t be an idiot, we would support law-enforcement against anyone with these psychopathic tendencies.

I feel like I am not making my position clear enough here.

Yeah, you are. You’re just coming off like Al Pacino screaming, “ATTICA! ATTICA!” in Dog Day Afternoon.

They’re the kind of laws that see people getting custodial sentence for wearing offensive t-shirts.

And this is why you come off like that; it’s a ridiculous false equivalency.

Yes he has the right to challenge my views, but calling them stupid isn’t going to achieve anything.

I am not actually worried about my details being sent to that guy. I don’t think Antinous would really do that. Also Markuze lives an awfully long way from here. People can still be annoying from that far away, granted, but not genuinely threatening. I just object to threat of it. Its inappropriate and childish.

A discussion on free speech is interesting to me. Threats and name calling, not so much.

I really don’t see why you’re worried about his sharing your address with Markuze, anyhow. Even if you were to break your own rule and ask Markuze to abridge his free-speech rights by stopping his e-mails to you, absent government intervention a guy like Markuze will still do the rational thing. Right?

This is the exact same statement you made in your first comment.  Yes I believe it is you right to say/write whatever you want. Its also my right to point out that you doing so would make you an asshole. How are you not understanding this? And why do you keep threatening me this way? Is part of your position as a moderator to threaten to send users private details to mentally ill people if they express an opinion you don’t like?

btw the reply button isn’t showing for your comment.

They do not.

They all understand that he needs help – especially after the last go-around, when details about him and his life/situation came to light. And the only way he’s going to get that help, it seems, is to get the authorities involved. Markuze’s faimly certainly isn’t going to do anything – his mother (who he lives with) was completely oblivious to her son’s troubles the last time.

Do you see that its possible to object to the shitty things people say to one another without wanting the government to shut them up?

Sorry but freedom of speech is black and white.

Then you won’t object to me expressing my right to free speech by sending him your e-mail address.