Michael Arrington gets slammed by the INTERNET AUTHORITIES

Michael Arrington, author of the well-respected IT blog TechCrunch, has gotten barraged with attacks for exposing Jigsaw as a spam site that doesn’t care about removing the personal information of non-users. Anonymous comments left on the entry threaten him and tell him to take down the post, saying things like, “Crybabies like you give bloggers bad name [sic].” Another comment makes a ridiculously fallacious attack:

I see nothing unethical or evil about this company at all. The information they have is obviously public. It comes from the public!

Amazing that people have no problem with Google collecting the world’s information and spitting it back at you in various forms, but you decry this company for doing basicly the same thing.

When Google creates a database of business contacts to be used for spam, without their owners’ permission, let me know and I’ll be right on it.