Warning about what is supposed to be my home page

Consider this a public notice: I just found out that the url hankkalet (dot) com has been hijacked and now hosts some kind of sex site. (Yikes!)

My rights to the site apparently expired in November, which left it open to whoever wanted to own the rights. While my name is in the url, it is not my site and we are attempting to figure out how to have the content removed and the site shut down.

This apparently is not an unusual circumstance — there are trolls out there who watch for urls to expire, buy them up, and then post content designed to embarass former owners into ponying up payments to get the site back. It is a form of blackmail and morally and ethically repugnant.

In the meantime, use kaletblog.com, channel-surfing.blogspot.com and kaletblog.wordpress.com to get to my content.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Send me an e-mail.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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