I returned to Boston in May. I started using university computers for research and blogging which at that point was more sticking to the educational way this blog was set up to begin with..though with all the pressures here it has really degenerated into maybe it can be called art..moreso something theraputic.
Still it is always to educate other TI's..none of the content mattered, about what I was doing becuz no one seemed to care. Then I saw a woman working on the computers putting up these rules of use and a policy on the screen for patrons.
As I have posted before, that the woman was very strange and looked and dressed oddly. Not typical MIT material.
So they sneakily instituted thier own policies on public computer use..of course so then when people get targeted they can justify thier selective monitoring or harassment of certain people.
Look up their website to see these policies on public use or any use of Hayden Library computers.
I did speak to Steve yesterday, but I was late so he spoke to me on the fly. He could hardly look at me the entire time, and he seemed stressed by my story. He asked where I lived and then when I said Waltham he claimed he lived there too and maybe we could meet there instead.
I told him how the guy that was the supervisor wanted me to go into his office and was talking to me like he had some authority over me like I felt coerced into going into his office. I stood my ground so there would be witnesses.
I told him about the other patron who thought I was very ill treated and mentioned how they got federal funds for the public use computers....as we can see by my last article certain OTHER Federal government interests outshine any petty funding for more altruistic purposes.
I talked to a student and told her a little about it. I told her that they were claiming that most of the complaints were coming from "the MIT community itself". She thought this was ridiculous and she says she's on facebook alot of the time she is there. And pray tell how would the MIT community know or care what I am doing on the comuter?
Stay tuned kids...
Friday, November 21, 2008
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