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QUOTE(carbuncle @ Thu 15th March 2012, 1:50pm)
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Wasn't it Dcoetzee's unblocking of the account, and denial that there was a problem, the root cause of the dramaz?
I'm quite sure that that Dcoetzee and their ilk would say that Geni's block was the root cause of the drama.
Even more root causes can be found in the actions of Vladimir Mozhenkov and his twisted belief that allowing adults to obtain personal sexual gratification through the exercise of their power over children is in anyway anarchist or libertarian. If he had not collected huge numbers of pornographic images and some of them to the web and defended similar behaviour, then the US cops would never have nicked him, the people at LibCom would never have acted against him and we would not have this thread. How many of the children pictured gave free and informed consent to their images being used in this way, Mr self-proclaimed anarchist?
Yes, that is what reasonable people might say, that the fact of Volodya's distribution of child porn is the reason he was blocked by Geni, but there don't seem to be that many reasonable people making themselves heard at Commons. You would think that most people would be wary of being associated with such a person, but on Voldya's talk page, people are adding their comments about how sorry they are that he is leaving, including inviting him to keep in touch off-wiki:
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I'm really sorry for the way this turned out, I'm frankly disgusted by the witch-hunt mentality we seem to have going on. To my mind, no matter what your past, and frankly I don't believe the "evidence", you've been a good contributor here, and I am really sorry to see you go. I hope you have better luck with the next community you choose to join. If you ever want to chat, come and hang out in ## on the AfterNET IRC server. -mattbuck (Talk) 03:37, 15 March 2012 (UTC)