Thank you for the support.
Thank you all so much for your support on cyber stalking.
I appreciate the diggs and blog posts.
If we all stick together and let these idiots know we're not putting up with their shit, and fight together for tougher internet stalking laws, we can make this happen.
We can take back our blogs and stop hiding from them. Stop self censoring.
Once when we all first started, we felt free and had so much fun writing on our blogs.
Then we slowly heard about bloggers being harassed, and started censoring ourselves a bit.
Then we heard about more, and we censored ourselves more.
Then people were so scared, they took their blogs off line.
Last night, a friend of mine, a fellow blogger I just met this year, have so much in common with her from being single moms (she recently remarried) of two boys, to the same twisted humor, and just over all got along great with each other, took her blog down because of a cyber creeps.
The same creeps as me.
The picture he stole from her blog and what he wrote about her, combined with what he's been doing to me for 5 years and others, freaked her out and she took it down.
I don't really blame her.
In the beginning of this mess, I freaked out too, took my blog down for a few days, brought it back password protected, un-privatized it, had no comments for a long time, and finally, have moderated comments.
This is my blog and I will not be taking it down because of this.
I've been blogging for 10 years and one wacko isn't taking away my site from me.
This blog is a part of my life, my history, my friendships, way to stay in touch with family and friends back home.
While the pictures of my kids and family and friends that he stole from my site and posts horrible things about, bothers me a lot, it's not going to stop me.
I'm still going to post my life, my kids, my pictures.
If he takes them and makes more horrible additions to his twisted and disturbed site, I'll take screen shots of those if I come across them.
I'm not gonna go looking for them because that's what he wants and loves, the attention.
One of the things I love the most about blogging is the solidarity we have when one of us is down and needs the support.
It's been an overwhelming show of support in my comments, in emails, and other bloggers taking my story to their own blogs.
But what bothers me, is some of the big named bloggers are willing to go to the media, but are taking their blogs down, or going to go anonymous.
No! We can't do that.
We have to stand together on this or nothing will ever change.
It upset me so much to read my friends email last night where she was taking her blog down. I begged her to put it back up, but she still hasn't responded.
I really hope she will put it back, there are a ton of us standing together on this, going to find a way to end cyber stalking somehow.
We're working on it.
We should be cautious, not post anything on our blogs we don't want someone to know, but there is no way we should be hiding or running away.
They win if we do that, and I for one, am not going any where.
Comments
I admire what you're doing. TGO is annoying non-entity who needs to get off the Internet. I don't believe for one minute that he's married, childed and has a business. I used to think this guy was funny, but he has gone way too far lately especially with the racism and wishing cancer upon people. He sounds like one of those batshit crazy, fundie Christians, and he most probably is. Do your stuff, get this asshole shamed.
Posted by: Sarah | May 1, 2007 7:31 AM
i just saw you on the news! wat to go Kat!
Posted by: Debbie | May 1, 2007 8:11 AM
you met Al Rokers wife... See you did great and looked great too.. Which cat needed the 20 mins of fame?
Posted by: heather | May 1, 2007 8:26 AM
Will you be able to post the taped GMA segment you appeared in? I missed it and am dying to see it!!!
Good for you for standing up to this creep.
Posted by: Chris (Singer) | May 1, 2007 9:11 AM
You did a great job. I'll bet he thought you'd give him a mention. WRONG! LOL Way to Go!
Posted by: Karen | May 1, 2007 9:55 AM
I saw the piece this morning...yo did GREAT!
Posted by: Christine | May 1, 2007 10:51 AM
Some people are so dumb. Don't back down for those idiots. Keep on blogging.
Have a nice day.
Posted by: Frank | May 1, 2007 10:59 AM
Good for you for what you did!
Posted by: Lisa | May 1, 2007 11:10 AM
Well said!
It always makes me sad when a friend decides to stop blogging for personal reasons.
But it makes me furious when a friend has to stop blogging because of some fuckwad.
I'd like to get some of these fuckers in room and have 15 minutes alone with them.
Posted by: Mr. Fabulous | May 1, 2007 1:45 PM
Amen to that! What I don't understand is, since the internet world is so big, why assholes have to turn it into their personal playground. Move on, leave the people you don't like alone; it's big enough for all of us here!
Posted by: DSB | May 1, 2007 2:44 PM
I'm proud of you.
Posted by: Leigh | May 1, 2007 3:05 PM
It's me, the other Leigh. LOL And I'm proud of you, too!! :)
Posted by: Leigh | May 1, 2007 4:22 PM
I'm glad you won't let him get to you. I know a lot of people supported Kathy's choice to remove her blog, and really it is her choice, but in the end I think that if you do that then you're just allowing them to get the best of you. Keep fighting is what I say, you do what you enjoy doing and piss on any fools who get in your way. But if you back down now then it will never be over, you'll show them that they were right and before long you're running from everything.
That's just how I see it though. I watched your segment on GMA. I was pissed that they gave you and Kathy such tiny blurbs. Bah, I thought this was just as important as their segment on building inspectors, if not more so!
Posted by: Joana | May 1, 2007 4:33 PM
Keep fighting Kat! yes, it's a frightening thing. I know how many places on the web have my photo outside of my websites and blog, and someone could go nuts with it! But people like you should not have to put up with this type of crap!
Posted by: L. Diane Wolfe | May 1, 2007 7:16 PM
It's every woman on the web who has to deal with this. It's a terrible thing that we do, but that's why we can't run and hide, they win if we do.
Posted by: kat | May 1, 2007 7:20 PM
That's the beauty of moderated comments... I can give them the thumbs-down and nobody else ever has to know that person exists or made a comment. Also? I would NEVER take my blog down. That would be giving them the power, and that's unacceptable.
Posted by: lattegirl | May 2, 2007 8:19 AM
You are standing strong, and that is what is needed when a coward who thinks he is anonymous tries to disrupt the flow of your life, and your online presence.
No one can take YOU away from you unless you let them.
Posted by: Trevor | May 5, 2007 9:03 PM