Update II: Hang with this. I Googled Thomas Ellers - possibly an Italian born artist though someone has a current home page. But excluding current sock puppet links, most all of the pages are in German. See this and this with Google translation.
So what, you ask? It's Greenwald's second language.
Glenn Greenwald, (Member) born New York, N.Y., March 6, 1967; admitted to bar, 1995, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1996, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Education: George Washington University (B.A., 1990); New York University School of Law (J.D., 1994). Member, New York University Law Review, 1992-1993. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards, Civil Procedure, Contracts and Property. Associate, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, 1994-1995. Languages: German. Practice Areas: General Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Intellectual Property; Civil Rights.
Update: And still another instance of sock puppetry, allegedly only nine minutes apart from Greenwald himself. We may have to amend the charges.
In what began with this post, blogger Glenn Greenwald charged Instapundit and, later, all right wing bloggers with treachery and deceit - and did it while committing the infraction of posting another's email address to foster abuse.
Reynolds is referring here to two posts I have written in the past regarding blatant falsehoods or hypocricies(sic) contained in posts of his which he refused to address, and I therefore encouraged readers to e-mail him asking him to respond.
Those charges were rebutted here:
UPDATE: As usual, Glenn Greenwald is clueless, accusing me of being a major promoter of StopTheACLU.com when in fact I was the target of a targeted mass-delinking at their behest. Glenn -- read the Online Integrity principles linked above if you want to know what I think about privacy.
I call your attention to the Online Integrity link above as Exhibit A.
In general, while there is nothing inherently wrong with using a “sock puppet”, it betrays a lack of confidence in your own arguments to carry the day (by manufacturing a legion of supporters to lend your own arguments weight). Most sock puppets tend to arise in the blogsphere as character witnesses, defending alleged and perceived slights and insults. Exposing these - usually via the tracing of IP addresses, which can be easily viewed by those who run blogs on Wordpress and Typepad - is not a violation of privacy that falls under the Statement of Principles of the Online Integrity project.
Blogger Greenwald now stands accused of multiple counts of sock puppetry. The newest charge from today is here.
What we now know is, at the very least, said sock puppetry was emanating from within blogger Greenwald's home.
I submit for your perusal blogger Greenwald's own statement as Exhibit B:
IP addresses signify the Internet account one uses, not any one individual. Those in the same household have the same IP address.
As Greenwald seems to enjoy quoting the Founders in many a regard, I humbly submit that the Founders of the Principles of On Line Integrity, to which blogger Greenwald suggests we all abide, fully and faithfully intended to root out the scourge of sock puppetry-ness from within the blogosphere.
Consequently, I herewith levy one initial count of aiding and abetting sock puppetry in the first degree from within his home in Brazil.
Now, I ask you, blogger Greenwald, how would a principled expatriate act? Please approach the bar.
This is entertaining. Anyone photoshop the sock puppet yet?
Posted by: don surber | Saturday, July 22, 2006 at 01:37 AM