Fellow travellers, as you well know, I was deeply distressed recently over what seemed like the premature expiration of Alene Composta's blog. I was very worried that she had been so distraught over the cyber-bullying she had endured that she had actually killed herself.

I myself have been subject to vicious abuse, both online and off, and I know how soul destroying it can be. Without the knowledge that I have so much love still to give the world, and so much attitudinal reconstruction yet to...
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Fellow travellers, if you peruse the rancid right-wing reaches of the blogosphere as I do from time to time, then surely you will have heard about a blogger called Alene Composta. Now, there is a meme going round that she is some kind of cyber-sock puppet created by a hateful conservative with the explicit intention of shaming the ABC.

As regular readers of this blog know, similarly vile and false rumours have been spread about myself. I have even been named by an appalling AmerKKKan com...
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