I’m a little late to this saga, but if you are too, the CRG idiots (they like Scott Walker and calling people Nazis) are accusing our good friend at Cognitive Dissidence of blogging on county time. The problem for them is they have no evidence. The problem for us is some people are dumb enough to swallow anything.
If you are interested, below is a very incomplete list of WI bloggers telling the whole story. The summary is: CRG accused capper of blogging on county time, their evidence consists of blogs posted mostly on Scott Walker imposed furlough days, and CRG is wasting county resources by forcing an investigation. For a better take on the story check out any of these WI blogs, in a not even close to complete list:
And while we’re at it, where was CRG when it was PROVEN a Scott Walker staffer Darlene Wink was commenting on JS online articles on county time? Funny thing is, conservatives are now going off on the “mainstream media” for not covering this enough. Despite the constant coverage of tea parties, those morons still rally around everything being a conspiracy to ignore them. If only we were so lucky.
Anyway, I know you’re going to hang in there capper. If a blogger died every time the right-wing lied we would have been in the negative category of existence long before our buddy Al Gore invented the internet.
I’m calling Chris Kliesmet at CRG tomorrow. Phone number 414-429-9501 or 414-801-0800. Can’t wait to ask them how they reconcile “responsible government” with government funded witchhunts.
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This is absolutely retarded.
~ You can change your blog’s time zone to whatever you want. Pretend you live in Trinidad and Tobago – no one gives a shit.
~ You can publish your individual blog posts to whatever time you want.
~ You can make your blog time stamps lie lie lie.
~You can backdate stuff however you want, you can set up Drafts to be auto-published at any time you choose in the future.
This is an Idiot-fest.
If they examined his computer, in theory they could find evidence that he’d been using it to compose personal non-work documents, or using a web-based email account.
But yes, timestamps are just bits of data sitting in databases under the hood of blogging software running on servers located who knows where. Blog owners are free to change them. So Capper (in theory) could adjust timestamps on his own blogs, and if he commented on someone else’s blog, that blog owner could twist the words and timestamp as they saw fit. For that matter, there are many issues of “true names” and identity when words appear on a blog.
Better evidence would be found with close examination of the browser cache. If the cache was erased, a much deeper and complicated examination of the hard drive could find evidence that would be harder to question, such as proof that someone on that computer was visiting a particular web page at a particular time. Even with that evidence in hand, it smells more like a employee reprimand than a Federal case.