[Air-l] vampirefreaks and yesterday's massacre

[kelly boudreau]

Hi Sara
Indeed, it seems that this is standard practice when such an event occurs. I
recall a news story a while back that discussed such removals. In that
particular case, it was a MySpace page, and it was deemed to have been
removed out of respect of the victims (among other reasons). The article
reported that it was removed also due to the increase of "rubbernecking"
traffic to the site (curious onlookers creating traffic jams). Another
reason they had removed the page was that the comments thread had become
over wrought with posts resulting in a relative flame war among commentors.
( I will try to locate the article, if only I can remember what newspaper it
was in)

As for any legal issues, indeed it could be considered part of their
investigation, much like one's apartment and automobile.
If I find the link, I will pass it on.

-Kelly Boudreau
Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada

On 9/14/06, Sara M. Grimes <smgrimes at sfu.ca> wrote:
>
> Thank you to those who have suggested I look in Google cache and similar
> web
> archives.
>
> Just to clarify on my last post and question, however, I'm trying to find
> information about how and why and by whom the journal was deleted. It
> seems
> that this is standard practice in these cases, but who makes the actual
> decision to remove it - is it the sites themselves, or is it a standard
> part
> of the police investigation (or is there even some law within the patriot
> act that dictates that they have to)?
>
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:42:33 -0400 gelmer at ryerson.ca wrote:
> > Is it not cached by Google?
> >
> > /Greg
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sara M. Grimes" <smgrimes at 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
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> Sara M. Grimes
> PhD Candidate/School of Communication
> Research Assistant/Applied Communication + Technology (ACT) Lab
> Simon Fraser University
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