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A nice piece from the Guardian here. Say, why don't I ever see material like this in the World's Greatest Newspaper (not!), the New York Times? Someone asleep at the wheel over there? Anyhow:

The Counter Convention organisers do not tolerate incitements to violence on the site. They are more interested in providing information on coming events and on how to print stickers.

In January, they had a brush with authority that indicates how important the politics of cyberspace have become.

"The secret service rang us up, but we refused to talk to them, except through lawyers, and nothing seems to have come of any investigation," says Etundi.

And, of course, agent provacateurs are already at work.

A day earlier, an unknown blogger had put a posting on their discussion board mentioning the idea of bringing a firearm along to the protest.

The item, along with subsequent posts, such as a "picture of poop", was taken off, but Etundi is convinced that it was the result of a rightwing conspiracy, as an inflammatory article appeared within hours on a Republican-supporting news website.

They now moderate every single post before publication. Emails attacking the site are still sent on a daily basis, he says.

Let's just hope it was a volunteer, as opposed to a paid Republican operative or mercenary,

The team has pulled off one significant victory: "Republican convention", or any other close variation, into the Google search box, and they are top of the results list.

Heh.