Euroferries threats to leading bloggers are, in my opinion, a threat to everyone in Thanet. Thanet still endures under a culture of fear and hostility where most bloggers do not dare to name themselves. The Euroferries threats that Eastcliff Richard (ECR) has clearly been dealt serve only to undermine the privacy we crave in order to question the politics here.

The simple fact is that ECR was reporting factually on comments made on another blog. Euroferries would not have had a hope in hell (in my opinion) of getting anything other than the right to pay ECRs costs. However they would have spoiled a good thing by unmasking a man many of us would rather not see unmasked.

ECR takes the role of the all licensed fool and as such while wearing that mask (whoever he is) is free to say things no one else is brave enough to voice. The only effect Euroferries could have had would be to have cost Adem and ECR a lot of pain and then gone after the "anon" commenter. The people that suffer would have been all of us and just so Euroferries could prove they had not gone bust something so self evidently true that it makes the entire thing laughable if not for the serious nature of the damage all Thanet bloggers would have taken.

Their strong arm tactics are, in my eyes, an attack on all of us and if on all of us on me. I take the actions of Euroferries personally as Thanet Star works only because it is park of a bigger picture. To this I will respond.