Hey Greg- Oliver is town this weekend. Are you guys? Andrew Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693
gelmer@ryerson.ca 14/09/2006 1:42:33 pm >>> Is it not cached by Google?
/Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sara M. Grimes" <smgrimes@sfu.ca> Date: Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:22 pm Subject: [Air-l] vampirefreaks and yesterday's massacre
Hi All - The shootings at Dawson's College in Montreal, QC, Canada yesterday remainbig and deeply disturbing news in Canada, as the Quebec and Montreal police begin to piece together a profile of the killer. Today's CBC online newssite mentions a goth/vampire themed web community that the killer belonged to (vampirefreaks.com), where he apparently kept an online diary and gave hints about what he was planning (http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/09/14/gunman- shooting.html).In trying to access his blog today, I discovered that it has unsurprisingly been removed. I'm assuming that police officials are responsible for this, to allow the investigation to proceed without interference, but could also see the site operators taking it down for other reasons. I was wondering if anyone has heard anything to confirm when/why/by whom the diary was removed?Is it standard practice during this type of investigation? I seem to remember hearing about similar blog deletions after past shootings of this kind, but I can't find anything written on this.
Sara M. Grimes PhD Candidate/School of Communication Research Assistant/Applied Communication + Technology (ACT) Lab Simon Fraser University _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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