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V.H. Belvadi • V.H. Belvadi

Thoughts on a revised definition of the #IndieWeb that focuses on the ideas behind it rather than the tools, and argues for placing sovereignty, in its many forms, at the very heart of the IndieWeb.

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Focus on the philosophy, not on tools

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You tell me because you said, ‘I agree the media pile on seemed way disproportionate.’

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Turns out ‘newscord’ is an AI-slop site. So for the record all I refer to in this post are its numbers, not its ‘analysis’.

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Thanks for agreeing it’s wrong. Doing something wrong isn’t ‘understandable’. Isn’t that why they reported on Arday? Don’t rules exist for them? They don’t get to do whatever they want to sell newspapers. News is for reporting, not commoditising. That’s crossing a line, that’s not ‘understandable’.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/08/2026

You’re misrepresenting my point. The media can report on everything, but they have no cause for piling on the way they did, or reporting with the vileness they showed. They need to show decency and humanity. And the ‘world’s attention’ was captured in part because the media made a spectacle of it.

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this is also a good time to state once again that the phrase "many things can be true at once" is a lazy, cheap, shitty cop-out. you don't need to stand up and be the brave, fearless defender of biographical detail integrity right now, you need to have a fucking heart

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Of all the phrases it could have picked for ‘final solution’… and I suppose we’re just getting started.

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You’re being willingly blind to the media’s behaviour if, after all the evidence I’ve given you, you still think the media isn’t to blame, nor vile racists who used this as a means to their own ill-advised ends.

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Are you suggesting that someone lying about something justifies a media pile on? For lies so obvious the media can disregard it and turn to more pressing matters. Proper reporting on Arday would’ve affected few people, if at all, and mostly affected the man himself. It was all for no public benefit.

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(Cont’d) Framing this as a demand to let Arday’s plagiarism slide is misrepresenting the calls for public enquiry. I can’t see how someone doesn’t comprehend that, so I repeat: nobody cares that the media reported on his plagiarism, we do care how they did it and everything else around it.

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R.I.P. Jason Arday (1985-2026)

(Cont’d) At least the media will answer to their hounding individuals. Finally, there are examples of academics who faced much less for similar misconduct, eg, @telescoper.bsky.social writes of one example telescoper.blog/2026/08/16/r... and there’s this: www.linkedin.com/posts/blackh... (Cont’d)

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Jason Arday, pictured in 2023 I read the terrible news about the death of Jason Arday on Friday evening. The first thing I want to do is express heartfelt condolences to his family – especial…

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(Cont’d) As @ketanjoshi.co notes the coverage was unprecedented, and for what? Anyone with sense can tell there’s been a racially-motivated ballooning of coverage in this case. An investigation can formally declare that – or prove otherwise – and I welcome that outcome. (Cont’d)

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(Cont’d) Third, I’m more interested – as this investigation should be if it ever happens – in the manner in which the media hounded Arday. It was disproportionate and unnecessary, it was vile in tone, and new reporting rarely added much anew to the story. (Cont’d)

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I’ve noticed a lot of people frame this argument disingenuously as ‘exposing his lies’. First of all, I don’t think anyone is against plagiarism being uncovered. Second, plagiarism isn’t new and others who have plagiarised haven’t received nearly the same kind of media exposure. (Cont’d)

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Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday media 'witchhunt'

If all goes well, this should end in a media reckoning. So far, they’ve got away with too much. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Lord Simon Woolley said Arday had been "hounded" by the media and pursued relentlessly.

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UK Prime Minister Updates @downingstreet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Second week as Prime Minister ✅

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The new game ‘No. 10: Full Confidence’ is great fun. A bit like Medieval Dynasty but modern and text-based, so no reason not to like it.

‘Report card’ from the new game No. 10: Full Confidence showing my character Percival Ashwoerh having been PM for 3 years and 6 months.

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I already agreed that people dropping support may have hurt him. Would you agree, though, that the behaviour of right-leaning media would have done something similar?

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It’s very easy to talk about compartmentalising when it’s happening to someone else. Empathy is being able to understand that.

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