Wednesday, October 04, 2006
full of scandal!
so that whole mark foley sex scandal with the email and the IMs?
whoa.
supposedly abc has 52 separate exchanges between young boys and the ex-congressman, though i've only found a few. i'm a little surprised that the instant message evidence is framed as so condemning by the sites and their commenters, since they're not exactly traceable, right? as far as i know AIM doesn't keep records in the way that an email server might, so i'm assuming these are just rtf files of the conversation the page happened to save. i doubt they could ever hold up in trial, for example.
ob-socio-cmc comment: DON'T THEY TEACH CONGRESSMEN HOW TO USE PUNCTUATION AND ZOMG WHY CAN'T HE CAPITALIZE
whoa.
supposedly abc has 52 separate exchanges between young boys and the ex-congressman, though i've only found a few. i'm a little surprised that the instant message evidence is framed as so condemning by the sites and their commenters, since they're not exactly traceable, right? as far as i know AIM doesn't keep records in the way that an email server might, so i'm assuming these are just rtf files of the conversation the page happened to save. i doubt they could ever hold up in trial, for example.
ob-socio-cmc comment: DON'T THEY TEACH CONGRESSMEN HOW TO USE PUNCTUATION AND ZOMG WHY CAN'T HE CAPITALIZE
