vampirefreaks and yesterday's massacre
Hi All - The shootings at Dawson's College in Montreal, QC, Canada yesterday remain big 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 news site 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
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.
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Hi Sarah, Upon encountering this bloody news, I did exactly same thing early in this morning (7am in Toronto) and found the same result. Apparently his blog on vampirefreaks.com was either removed/diminished. One of my friends who tried to find it at 5am in Toronto this morning found the site turned to be over-accessed and unavailable for visiters. Guess till this moment, his blog might be existed... Also by google search, I found his name on the goth-related site called Goth Metal World (www.gothmetal.net). However the access to this site is currently limited (because of over-access?) and I can't find any clue which suggests how he perticipated in the site. Like Sarah, I'm so curious about the regitimation of the killer's blog. If anyone has info about what was going on last night in cyberspace, please share it. Thank you so much, -- Yukari Seko M.A. candidate Joint Programme in Communication and Culture Studies btw York/Ryerson universities Comcult GSA Webmaster (York) yukaseko@yorku.ca Quoting "Sara M. Grimes" <smgrimes@sfu.ca>:
Hi All - The shootings at Dawson's College in Montreal, QC, Canada yesterday remain big 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 news site 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.
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Greg Elmer -
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Yukari Seko