I have nothing to do with the CIPDTF – here we go again…
As you can read from My Pet Jawa, Howie’s Moisture Farm and The Dread Pundit Bluto, some stupid spammer has apparently taken upon himself to promote the increasingly dubious prose of the CIPDTF. As I am providing anonymous hosting services to the CIPDTF, I am as usually taking some heat for anything related to them. So once again I have some explaining to do. The few last times I had to do that chore the controversy involved mostly French speakers so I wrote my CIPDTF disclaimers in my French speaking blog. Now it seems that time has come to make things clear in English too…
It is really a pity that I have to add another categorical denial to the already thickening pile, but here it is… Once again I want to make clear that I have never participated directly or indirectly in the content of the CIPDTF nor in any action aimed at promoting it by any means, especially the obnoxious and illegal ones.
In the name of the freedom of speech that was under very strong pressure during the heights of the Ivorian civil war, I am providing free anonymous hosting services to an Ivorian collective. My contact with that collective goes through a person I know under the pseudonym “Jacques Koulibaly”. I handle hosting services and that is all – I have nothing whatsoever to do with contents, nor with the actions of the CIPDTF or its sympathisers.
With the Ivorian crisis settling down, maybe the time for the CIPDTF‘s radical, provocative and plain bizarre humor has passed. That is my opinion, but that is not my problem. The CIPDTF is becoming ever stranger, I believe that the quality of its publications has sharply declined and my problem is that I wish to make clear that I am not associated with the CIPDTF in any way.
As you may know I am an extremely patient person and I will remain faithful to my past commitment to provide hosting unless unethical content appears on the site. But I am quite fed up with issuing disclaimers. So as a first step in making the demarcation of responsibilities more clear I have asked the CIPDTF to register their own domain name.
In fact I asked them long ago, but I did not follow up. Lending a sub-domain to those impecuniary people was supposed to be a temporary measure but I let it go on way past its expiration date. So two weeks ago I gave them a deadline : register your own domain before the 14th July or I shall discontinue hosting your site. The recents events reported by the aforementioned blogs have only confirmed my determination on this matter.
I hope that my position is now clearer for everyone involved. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask them here so that the debate can enlighten everyone.
3 responses to “I have nothing to do with the CIPDTF – here we go again…”
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I don’t blame you if you drop them, and if you took some flack for hosting them I apologize. My post was directed at CIPDTF themselves and not at you. So far as I can tell he is not directly hosting terrorist propaganda or directly related to GIMF althouht he seems to sympathize with thier cause. We are looking into the possibilty though, that they assist GIMF in some way.
I formed my nevative opinion based on information in google searches. I linked all the searches and I offered to allow them to rebut anything they wish in comments at mypetjawa, they declined to do so.
Again my apologies for any troubles we caused you and my thanks for clearing this up. If you continue to have problems drop me a line and I’ll do a post asking that our readers direct their displeasure at CIPDTF and explain your unconfortable position.
Thank you for keeping the debate factual, rational and constructive – it has not always been like that in the past with other persons. Just keep going with the straight facts and I’ll be fine.
The CIPFTF has such a taste for provocation that I am not surprised that they declined and offer for rebuttal. Mentions of the GIMF may also simply be misguided provocation – or at least I hope it is only that.
I nowadays really don’t know anymore what the CIPDTF actually stand for – the original inspiration is still there under the drivel, but muddled with obscure influences. They seem to enjoy antagonizing people far beyond the scope of the Ivory Coast crisis itself. That is too bad because in their beginnings when they focused on derisive coverage of the crisis they were quite funny.
No problem, damn I need to spell check, glad you were able to read it ;)