Matthew Keys Is Running Out of Arguments

Here's Matthew Keys again, heckling me on the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper that he is charged with helping to vandalize. What a creep! There's also no sense of responsibility -- that he is a public figure in a public news agency. This parochial, village-like mentality of big people on the Internet with inflated egos is something I often come across in the "global village". A shock from an individual with numerous followers and fawning attention that he might have critics. A shriek that someone might fact multiple criticism on multiple news articles instead of just letting their crusading lawyers' misleading statements stand in the public eye. Incredible!

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  Matthew Keys · Following · Top Commenter · Deputy Social Media Editor at Reuters · 21,784 subscribers

  "Often, "bullying" seems to mean something about hating gays -- but then that means if you question anything about the way that some aggressive gay activists are pursuing their cause by boycotting or trying to silence other groups they don't like, why, you're the "bully" then -- even if what they do would be classified as bullying in anyone else's hands."
  
  Apparently the same can be said for "harassment." When you question as to why someone is obsessed with an idea or an individual -- going so far as to look up every article on a subject so they can leave a comment -- that's "harassment," even if said person goes to great lengths (and takes great time out of their day) to write lengthy, rambling blog entries on said person, which might qualify as "harassment" to some people.
  
  Here, have some cake…

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  Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick · Top Commenter · Blogger at 3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state

  I certainly stand by any quote I make, and this quote about the aggressiveness of some gay activists trying to take others' freedom of association and freedom of expression of them is definitely a concern I have. I support equality, gay marriage, and LGBT rights. I don't support achieving them via persecuting others and taking away their rights. This shouldn't be a minority opinion.
  
  Matthew, you seem to have forgotten that you are a public figure, and a very public figure, running the Twitter feed for Reuters, a news agency. There's a saying about translators about how they should be different than the proverb about children -- "translators should be heard, not seen," i.e. their personalities should not get in the way of their job. This adage might apply to your profession as well. Nobody is "harassing" you because they comment on your case, whether in one comment or in numerous comments. There is no "Internet police" that decides that comments are "too much". I marvel at the involved narcissism and self-regard coupled with thin-skin geekitude that could produce a notion that leaving comments on public articles about public figures is "harassment". Rambling or no, blog entries about public figures are legitimate as well. This idea that you have to undermine legitimate activity -- take rights away from others -- is why we have to worry about arrogant people like you who act with a grand sense of impunity to take other people's rights away in the name of "journalism".