Posted on 06/29/2008 3:49:28 AM PDT by abb
A bunch of anti-Obama blogs were apparently shut down on Google’s Blogspot as suspected spam. They say that Obama fans reported them as spam to get rid of them. I have no idea what the truth is. The fear online has been that false information could be spread. It’s another fear that speech can be silenced.
(I suppose I should make clear that I don’t think any official Obama campaign effort is remotely behind this if it’s true. The point, instead, is that rogues can cause trouble. This would seem to be a variation on Swiftboating but rather than try to get a message out, the goal would be to bat an opposing message down.)
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If I went to a web site named “nobama”, I would expect to see a negative spin on Obama articles. The same thing, “Nomccain” obviously would be anti-McCain.
Makes no sense....
.....Bob
This is a malady that afflicts all who look for the truth, and especially now that everyone has a keyboard to the internet.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
True. It also means that those used to control information sharing (aka 'news') may not have been dispensing 'truth.' In other words, when Uncle Walter said "And that's the way it is, Friday..." was that really so?
Liberals do not recognize the first two amendments to the Constitution.
See-
GOOGLE's Anti-Conservative Agenda
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1395994/posts
And -
DNC free Speech Zone Boston Fleet CenterWednesday, July 21, 2004.' (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Hmmmm, so I guess this same crowd tried to shut down anti-bush blogs and truther blogs too? LOL!
The real fear on the part of Obamao supporters is that TRUE information could be spread. They are all a bunch of little Stalinists doing Uncle Joe mighty proud.
Good GRIEF! I followed the links- it seems at least six of these blogs were shut down.
http://comealongway.wordpress.com/alt-blog-sites/
This is the message the bloggers received:
Dear Blogger user,
This is a message from the Blogger team.
Your blog, at http://comealongway.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. . .
You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog. . .
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
Apparently, these particular bloggers all moved over to Wordpress. Good there’s an alternative.
Yes- there IS an alternative...for now. But here’s something to thinks about- a reply from a reader at your link:
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/28/nobama-blogs-kerfuffle/
June 29th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Jeff,
Good catch. Let’s apply what happened here to your post the other day about the internet and the FCC (F the FCC: The internet as interstate). In this case Google decided for whatever reason to shut down blogs critical of Obama. Those sites had an alternative place to go - Wordpress.
Now lets assume Government controlled the distribution system. Does anybody really believe these blogs would have someplace else to go?
One other point regarding your post from the other day. Newspapers always were and still are distribution systems. They own them and and also provide content. Those who want government control over the internet would squeal like stuck pigs if government control over newspaper distribution were proposed.
Today it is no secret that the Fourth Estate is squarely in arms of America's enemies, (the Democrat and RINO Party, the One Worlders, the U.N., the Communists, the socialists, the weak in the knees Europeans, the America hating blacks, the open border groups, etc. etc.) and will do anything and everything to undermine and otherwise destroy both American sovereignty, and Her Constitution.
The misinformation they push down our throats daily has been digested, eagerly, by the masses.
The day may well come when those of us that have escaped their sirens call will be rounded up and force fed until we too see the "light".
Obviously they were shut down because they criticized His Holiness, Saint Barack Obama. (Praised be His Name, or You’ll be Called Racist)
I expected this in an Obama Administration but didn’t think it would start prior to election. It’s already worst than my nightmares.
Jarvis is an unapologetic screaming liberal. He supported Hillary. But he also ‘gets’ the internet/blog thing and the demise of the Drive-By Media. He believes in freedom of speech and celebrates open debate and never would countenance silencing his opponents.
I like him and read his blog often.
These days I USE google and they get nothing from me.
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
;-)
First the AP, then the WAPO, now the shut down of blogs. Connect the dots folks.
This is connected somehow to the WAPO article and attack on Freerepublic.
I suspect we have only begun to see the counterattack on us.
And I suppose if I reported blogs that were spreading lies about President Bush, Google would have those blogs removed. HA, HA, HA!
Left or right- in this fight it shouldn’t matter. This is about our liberty. On either side when “they” decide to shut down our freedom to express it’s time to speak up LOUDLY and OFTEN.
I keep “seeing” the quote from yesterday by Dr. Danille Allen “How to stop it”?
How interesting. Ring a bell?
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