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“Giganews is an FBI Operation”

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Re: “Giganews is an FBI Operation”

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Post by abjorn »

inyourtenement wrote: post #56
giganews wrote: post #33

This is a hoax. These allegations are 100% false. Unfortunately, since his termination, the poster has periodically posted versions of this information online. Sometimes, he tries to misrepresent himself as our CEO and sometimes he posts as himself. Here are some examples of his previous writings over the last 18 months: Nuclear Reactors? Our third CEO is Baal? Illuminati? "The Giganews logo is a red colored shield -…

Not 100% false. "The Giganews/Data Foundry admins Philip Molter and Mike Smith disciplined me for removing the child porn groups and didn't trust me to keep working there afterwards. They made subtle references to jeopardizing criminal investigations IN PROGRESS then threatened me with a bad reference for removing the child abuse junk. No big deal, a bad reference from them after doing that is good, but Philip restor…

How exactly does this quote go against the statement that this article is false?

Re: “Giganews is an FBI Operation”

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Post by Fjolsvith »

ultramancool wrote: post #59
jwr wrote: post #29

As a thought experiment, let's assume at least parts of this story are true. I would actually be very happy if the FBI was plugged into a USENET feed, sifting through the crud and fighting crime. This isn't like the NSA privacy incursions — USENET is public. Whatever you post is out there for everyone to see.

Yes, I agree - the only potential concern here is just that they can grab this connection data without probable cause and could easily decide to go after... most of the customers for piracy which could not otherwise be caught.

Hah! They'd have to hire a thousand more judges and prosecutors to handle that caseload!

Re: “Giganews is an FBI Operation”

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Post by Fjolsvith »

georgemcbay wrote: post #32
VLM wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"has been largely neutered by automatic DMCA requests" For top 40 pop music and hollywood movies released within maybe 6 months of todays date. For the rest of the cultural universe, no not really.

Also, HBO TV series, which is all.. er "my friend"... cares about, since HBO refuses to offer "my friend" any way to pay for their content that doesn't involve getting a full-blown oligopoly-supporting cable TV subscription (while also not putting much of their content on alt services like Amazon Prime streaming for months to a year after initial air date).

Just posted a link about Verizon breaking the cable monopoly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8322762

Re: “Giganews is an FBI Operation”

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Post by smutticus »

mrbill wrote: post #51
darkstar999 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You must be one of them as well then mrbill is a freemason working for Halliburton. My tin foil hat is tingling.

http://www.mrbill.net/ink/firsttat/masonictattoo.jpg

That's only your fake human skin atop your true Lizardman exterior.

Re: “Giganews is an FBI Operation”

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Post by anonbanker »

mrbill wrote: post #51
darkstar999 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You must be one of them as well then mrbill is a freemason working for Halliburton. My tin foil hat is tingling.

http://www.mrbill.net/ink/firsttat/masonictattoo.jpg

Now that's a gang sign if I've ever seen one.

Re: “Giganews is an FBI Operation”

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Post by 19dscout »

I worked with nickc before he was terminated (I am no longer an employee of PHMGMT, DF, or GN. I left but Imn sure the company doesnt have a very high opinion of myself), and I can attest that he is one weird dude. When I first started working there it was suggested to get Nick to start talking about all of his conspiracy theories in order to pass the time at night... I did not get the chance (nor did I have the desire). I am absolutely not surprised by this.

Re: “Giganews is an FBI Operation”

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Post by 19dscout »

mrbill wrote: post #46
chrissnell wrote: post #44

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Howdy, Bill. :) Good to see you around here. I'm interested to see if anybody else shows up. It's hard to believe that this was almost 20 years ago. I wonder what happened to everybody. Ed, Mo, Mikedoug, etc.

As far as I know, Ed is now/still the CIO at DataFoundry. I'm in contact with Brett H. on FB and we're laughing about this. Mikedoug moved on a few years ago but I'm not sure what he's doing now. Mark is a barista somewhere in Texas, according to FB. I've lost touch with pretty much everyone else...

When I left late last year, Mikedoug was still at DF.

Re: “Giganews is an FBI Operation”

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Post by mtrpcic »

darkstar999 wrote: post #49
dblacc wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first line says "these allegations are 100% false" though

Oh, case closed. Move on everybody!

He's just pointing out that he did refute the claims, where you (in the comment directly above), claim that he refutes the persons character but did not refute the claims.
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