Oh, there isn't quite a complete silence, there was one bit of Aesopian reaction from Joshua Foust to the appalling takedown of me -- takedown doesn't even begin to describe forcing an employer to put outrageous conditions on you so that you can't renew a contract and your livelihood is profoundly harmed.
He tweeted "Somedays, this is basically what the Internet is like" and put a link to a youtube that has a clip from a movie called "Desperate Living." I've never seen it, but the message is clear: it shows a mother freaking out and having a hysterical fit about many larger issues because some kids below in the yard have knocked a ball through her bedroom window and broken it.
That's supposed to be me, complaining about the savaging of me by Foust and other Registan writers -- as if my complaint was exaggerated or out of touch or an inappropriate response to a mere ball accidently breaking a window. The Registani writers that lobbed @EurasiaNet tweets at my employer's front page were doing more than just breaking windows with their wild baseball game, they were ensuring that in fact I was silenced completely.
I found it more appropriate to say that some days, the Internet is more like the scene in "Lord of the Flies" where the wild boys kill Piggy as he is trying to plea for them to be decent.
