Expectation of privacy

My next post will break down what happened to me as a result of maintaining this blog, what changes are coming, and what the future holds for this blog. As of right now, I am putting it back up for a simple reason - my former roommate finds it necessary to talk incessantly about this blog, and his largely inaccurate description of what I was doing deserves a rebuttal, namely the text of the blog itself.

This brings me to another point - because my former roommate won't let the issue die, more people who actually know him have discovered the blog through him than through me. Many found out when he made a big fuss and I had to abruptly change rooms amid much curiosity-arousing noise. Since he complained to others about the blog and is confronting everyone who we mutually knew about it (not very tactfully, I might add), I will let the blog speak for itself.

With that, those of you who read the blog and actually know who my roommate is, please don't aggravate the situation. Some of you have copied and redistributed the text of this site. While this is legally permissible (I publish this site under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license), I would prefer that you do not do this to spite my old roommate, which some of you have been doing. In addition, some have taken to openly taunting the former roommate - it is unacceptable and unnecessary to mock him by writing things on his door.

Now I'd also like to clarify - this blog's purpose is not to make fun of my roommate. While I did have real problems with my roommate's half-baked ideas on politics, law, and society, and I also have real problems with him professionally, our personal differences are nothing special. I regret letting him find out about the blog, since I had miscalculated the amount of damage it would cause. I'll post more on this later, as well as address concerns that were aired about OPSEC, PERSEC, breach of trust, and expectation of privacy. Most of what I posted on was unimportant, impersonal, and commonly available knowledge. If you say something to a group of your peers in the dining facility within earshot of dozens of others, it is not generally considered to be a private conversation.

I've also deleted any posts which could possibly be construed as too personal or too private.