A DU learning experience I'm compelled to share with my DU mates [View all]

[90-percent]

Last edited Tue Dec 16, 2014, 10:32 AM - Edit history (1)

Long story short. I googled a subject and found a web page that substantiates a point I was trying to make. First time in my life I went to the site and the page concurred with my understanding of the subject. Cut and pasted the url into my post and carried on.

Unknown to me, the link I posted on DU was actually a known anti-semitic conspiracy theorist, identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti Defamation League as a hate group.

So the most popular and well received OP in my eleven years on DU was removed by a 5-2 jury decision.

A very hard learned lesson in do's and don'ts for posting on DU, as the jury decision carries the implication that I tried to surreptitiously slip in hate website links on DU, as if I was promoting and sanctioning what that hate website had to say.

So the next time I google to find a link to make a point, I'll be more careful before I post it on DU. And I share this with my DU mates because I want you all to avoid the unpleasant experience I had learning this lesson the hard way.

-90% Jimmy