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Obama’s Netroots Supporters Continue "Blog Burning"
Tell me once more how progressives love free speech.
This blog has been locked due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations. You may not publish new posts until your blog is reviewed and unlocked. This blog will be deleted within 20 days unless you request a review.
Its the same message Concrete Bob received and Rosemary posted for him.
This is bulls**t as it appears that someone does not approve of the idea of free speech especially when the speech doesn’t conform to their ideas.
Online activists thought to be loyal to Barack Obama are once against using Google’s software tools to target rival political blogs for elimination as spam blogs. This occurred earlier this year when Democratic bloggers with a preference for Hillary Clinton also found themselves locked out of their own blogs, all because of spurious and apparently orchestrated claims that these blogs are spam blogs. Pro-Obama activists were blamed for those attempts at censorship as well.
Like John at Argghhh!, I don’t think for a second that the Obama campaign has any official knowledge of this attempt to hamstring or terminate rival political viewpoints, but as Obama once won an election by exercising procedural tricks to have his rivals thrown off the ballot, it is certainly in line with the kind of character he has displayed in the past.
E-Mail I received yesterday:
http://tbogg.blogspot.com/ – ACTION REQUIRED
From: Blogger (no-reply@google.com)
Sent: Thu 7/31/08 4:09 PM
To: tblogg@hotmail.comHello,
Your blog at: http://tbogg.blogspot.com/ has been identified as a potential spam blog. To correct this, please request a review by filling out the form at http://www.blogger.com/unlock-blog.g?lockedBlogID=3796
I guess the super-secret plan is to kill us all and let Google sort us out.
Gomer is always having problems with teh google.
Mo-Ron.
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But how is Satchmo?
Satchmo is considerably brighter than Gomer. Better looking too.
Satchmo is considerably brighter than Gomer. Better looking too.
True dat.
Hope teh bright & handsome Satchmo had a better day today.
my blog, skippy, very left-leaning, is also spam-blocked.
there was much discussion amongst the left blogs (many of whom are spam-blocked) that it was a conspiracy, but we finally decided it was just blogger getting all blogged up.
nice that the lefty blogs talk about it before making announcements about conspiracies…the hardly-ever-right wing knows no such valor, of which discretion is the better part.
but my co-bloggers and i are still blogging over at http://xnerg3.blogspot.com/”>skippy junior.!
but my co-bloggers and i are still blogging over at skippy junior.!
sorry for the double post…tbogg keeps disappearing when i try to post.
Skippy — glad to see you’re still up.
I can’t believe blogger is bloggered up to the point that bloggers can’t blog to their blogs.
I think this is unprecedented.
Confound it all. Once Krusty McSame is preznit he’ll sort it all out — he is, after all, the true master of teh google. Perhaps now that Ted Stevens is looking at some hard time we can also get around to unclogging the intertubes…
Even the Daily Coyote, which is totally non-political (though definitely pro-coyote, and therefore suspicious), went through a period where someone reported them as a spam blog and they were locked and had to go through the review. This is a good argument for having your own blog hosting.
thx edub…
there is also a problem w/sitemeter today…any blog w/sitemeter code cannot be opened by internet explorer.
i am seriously considering word press…does anyone else any recommendations?
digg it here
Well, you know some blogs are young and inexperienced, they have funny names and don’t look like the other blogs. Oh, and did I mention that they’re lefties?
From the Blogger website:
Obama learned everything he knows about the internet portal device from the guy who invented it. Wink wink, nod nod. (But, shh, don’t tell Concrete Bob. It’s a secret.)
A couple of the blogs that I read on a regular basis have suddenly become unavailable on IE. Have Crooks and Liars and Balloon Juice been classified as spam?
Tee- lefty blogs included Plush Life…. all kitties, all the time.
Is it just me, or the nutters starting to remind people of a scene from The Ref?
“You know what I’m going to get you next Christmas, Mom? A big wooden cross, so that every time you feel unappreciated for your sacrifices, you can climb on up and nail yourself to it. “