Cop Blaster to Censor Home Addresses Temporarily

Blast Zone No. 125 - 5 Comments
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In response to what really was a victory, CopBlaster.com will not allow the posting of home addresses until further notice. All home addresses will be replaced with the word "CENSORED!" and a link to this page. The reason is that Judge Marco Hernandez ordered that it be part of my supervision in unrelated matters. I call it a victory because Assistant United States Attorney Greg Nyhus sought to have the website taken down entirely, but the court recognized that the right to criticize government officials strikes the core of the First Amendment.


Preserving the right to expose the truth about the conduct of government employees is more important than where they live, so until further notice CopBlaster.com will not longer display any address categorized as a home address.



UPDATE:


8/27/2019 - This censorship has been relaxed to permit home addresses to be posted in the Snitches and Other categories. Now that I am no longer on supervision in that old case I am no longer banned from posting home addresses, but since the government has not been screwing with me too much lately and just stopped listing my address on their website I have decided to keep the block in place on the other categories for now. I am still on supervision in another case, so I do not want to piss them off too much.


I still however do not trust the government, so those other categories have been programmed to keep the block in place unless the amount of time between the current date and the last time that the CopBlaster.com account was logged into exceeds 14 days. That way if the government starts treating me differently for worse then this website will treat them worse automatically.


UPDATE:


2/24/2023 - I've restored the home address block on all categories in response to the general sentiment in society turning against the practice of posting home addresses online. That sentiment has manifested in ways that have led me to believe that the best way to protect your ability to get your message out is to take away your ability to display a map to the home address of your subject. This has nothing to do with new laws against posting that kind of information directly because those laws are unconstitutional. It has more to do with steps other organizations outside of the government have taken to suppress content containing that information. There was a time when more information amplified your message but today the opposite seems true.

The home address block is back in place site wide again. If this angers you it probably is for your own good because market forces are making it harder for people to find content which links to that type of information.


This site is finally to a point where victims of government overreach can make those researching their abuser see their story simply by naming the abuser. Securing the ability to do that is more important than being able to post that type of relevant yet not necessarily necessary information.

The funny thing is that the impression I got from the prosecutor was that the complaints had less to do with zip codes and more to do with the rest, so that shows that this site accomplishes its purpose. According to her most of the complaints were from people at the BOP.

Following a discussion with the local federal persecutor I agreed to block home zip codes because they mean noting to me. I though about keeping those blocked with the addresses all along but figured I would probably get a complaint from the feds regarding the site in the future no matter what and that the zip codes could be used as something to trade in response to those complaints. Sure enough I got a complaint, traded something that was of no value to me, and resolved the issue.

I still however do not trust the government, so those other categories have been programmed to keep the block in place unless the amount of time between the current date and the last time that the CopBlaster.com account was logged into exceeds 14 days. That way if the government starts treating me differently for worse then this website will treat them worse automatically.

This censorship has been relaxed to permit home addresses to be posted in the Snitches and Other categories. Now that I am no longer on supervision in that old case I am no longer banned from posting home addresses, but since the government has not been screwing with me too much lately and just stopped listing my address on their website I have decided to keep the block in place on the other categories for now. I am still on supervision in another case, so I do not want to piss them off too much.

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