Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts

Friday, June 2, 2023

Elon Musk Came Through



An attempt was made to leave this comment on the video, but it disappeared. Twice.

""Now, you can go watch "What is a Woman" for free over on Twitter" Well, actually, no I cannot. Because, in spite of Mr. Musk's declaration that Twitter would now have a sense of humor and that posts about the vaccine would no longer be censored, I remain locked out of my account for refusing to delete a tweet from Two years ago that was intended as a humorous reply to Viva Frei. 

Subsequent appeals have been denied. I am not going to delete it. So, in my opinion and experience, Twitter still lacks a sense of humor and continues to censor any mention of covid -19 of which it does not approve. But good for you guys that you are influential enough to have a loud enough "voice" that Mr. Musk will allow you to have free speech on Twitter."

Again, here is the Tweet so awful, so horrendous, so unimaginably heinous that the rest of the world must, must be shielded from it - avert thine eyes, shouldst thou wish to remain untouched by it - for which this blogger has been locked out of her account for the last TWO YEARS because there is a principle involved. That principle is free speech. The Tweet will not be deleted, not even to delete the account. 



As I attempted to say in my comment on Youtube, it is all well and good for those with "loud voices" to be able to get their speech seen, but, unless that also applies to the little guy, what good does it really do?

Perhaps the laptop - which is failing - had a problem. But the post appeared to have posted, albeit with some trouble after it would not allow an edit. But when I went back to check it a few minutes later, the same post was there on top that had been there before, but the one mentioned above was nowhere to be seen, scroll as one might. But, while the possibility of user error is left open, the point remains the same. There is no freedom of speech unless we all have freedom of speech, from presidents to frumpy, Midwestern housefraus.

 Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.


Sunday, March 18, 2018

Tommy Robinson at Speaker's Corner for Martin Sellner

This video is being made difficult to share. It contains no foul language, nor does it condemn anyone on the basis of racism. It is certainly a good deal more comfortable to contemplate than are the stories of Rotherdan and Telford which are damning of the British government's wish to appease the followers of islam to the point of destroying their own people. 

Because youtube has marked this as possibly offensive,  I am unable to share the video on the blog page, so here is the url of the video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G1qcwcIFIw&feature=youtu.be&bpctr=1521432588


"By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil." ~ Proverbs 16:6

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Where is the GoV Blog?

Update #3: The Gates of Vienna blog has moved to their own site. The link on my blogroll has been changed. Just in case it takes a few days for that to work properly, their new url is: http://gatesofvienna.net/

Update #2: The blog has been taken down again. this time the notice says that Blogger is reviewing it for a term of Service violation. If they are using adsense, I can only imagine that they will find a TOS violation and the blog will be moved.
There is a reason that I did NOT join adsense. (Actually there are a few but this one is relevant.) Adsense places limits on what may be said on one's blog. for instance the post I put up above this one is about the Guns Across America rally in WI on the 19th. The adsense TOS states that you may not post anything promoting firearms or the use of firearms. There are other objectionable things in there too, but I suspect many an unsuspecting blogger will adopt adsense hoping to make a few bucks only to lose their blog because of the ridiculously PC TOS.
In any event GoV is down again. I'll do my best to keep you updated.

Update: The GoV blog is back up and running. According to the the Baron, it seems to have been a glitch on the part of the Blogger platform. I am happy to think so and also relieved to see that fellow bloggers are paying attention and looking out for each other. We need to look out for each other and if nothing else, this serves as a practice run to make sure we can contact each other if the need arises.

I just found out (H/T Holger of Holger Awakens) that the Gates of Vienna Blog has been removed. I do not know why, neither, according to the tweets from the folks at GoV do they.:

  1. gates of vienna‏@GatesofVienna
  2. Please, please help. We've been removed from Blogger. No message why.

  1. PLEASE RETWEET THIS 4 US: Gates of Vienna blog "has been removed". We have rec'd no message why. If YOU spread this mayb someone can help??.



    1. TRY 2 GET ON OUR BLOG, GET THISA MESSAGE "Sorry, the blog at has been removed " Our email: nedmay@chromatism.net.



    1. GATES OF VIENNA HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM BLOGGER. THERE ONE MOMENT & THEN SUDDENLY GONE! PLEASE HELP US FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED. 
     
    What is going on Blogger? GoV has been of inestimable service to this nation.
     
    "And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? " ~ Gen 4:9

    Wednesday, July 21, 2010

    73,000 Blogs Gone

    Andrea Shea King posted about the seizure of an internet server on her blog earlier this week.
    It seemed that the free hosting site Blogtery has had their server seized by the authorities. There is a link at their site to a thread discussing, among other things, whether or not the authorities are acting within the law. The consensus on the thread seems to be that they are.

    The e-mailed responses to queries of Blogtery's owner, which he/she has posted on the thread are as follows:

    "Due to the history of abuse and on going abuse on this 'bn.***********' server.We have opted to terminate this server, effective immediately. This termination applies to: bn.affiliateplex.comAbuse DepartmentBurstNET Technologies, Inc "

    "Hello, again.Thank you for providing your pin. It has been verified.Bn.xx*********** was terminated by request of law enforcement officials, due to material hosted on the server.We are limited as to the details we can provide to you, but note that this was a critical matter and the only available option to us was to immediately deactivate the server.The following section of our Service Agreement Contract (https://www.burst.net/policy/contract.pdf) addresses this type of issue:.......... "

    "I'm sorry for the delay. I have been awaiting a response regarding this issue from one of my colleagues.Please note that this was not a typical case, in which suspension and notification would be the norm. This was a critical matter brought to our attention by law enforcement officials. We had to immediately remove the server.The pre-payment for invoice #1289289 (bn.xxxxx***********. (07/11/2010 - 08/10/2010)) has been credited back to your account."
    Further Burstnet appears to have commented on the thread saying this:
    "We notified him when we terminated it, and we refunded him his money to his account, becasue he has other servers with us. If he wants the refund to his card, we can easily do that. However, it should be the least of his concern.Simply put: We cannot give him his data nor can we provide any other details. By stating this, most would recognize that something serious is afoot.As far as his request to speak with the law enforcement officials, he sent it last night at 7PM, after Customer service was closed. We are looking into his request with the necessary persons.This is the last post we will make on this subject."

    On the surface, this seems pretty cut and dried, the site was warned and had their service terminated according to the TOS and at the request of law enforcement. So, what's the problem?

    The problem is that Blogtery provided free hosting to some 73,000 blogs. Now, I know law enforcement is tough and criminals are sneaky, but is it really necessary to shut down 73,000 blogs to curtail the criminal activities of ...how many? Surely not all 73,000 bloggers were violating the TOS or piracy laws or whatever else would have caused the authorities to take such an extreme action. Yet, neither they, nor the owner of Blogtery have been able to get their data back. I hope they had backups.

    The owner of Blogtery.com professes to be ignorant of any wrongdoing and says that whenever they have received notice of violations, the violators have been removed within 24 hours. Most of the other posters seem to have assumed that the owner of Blogtery has not been cooperative with the owners of Burstnet or the authorities in policing the server.

    Maybe that's true. Still, I found myself with more questions than answers.
    Upon looking for more information, I found a report here on the matter which was referenced on the Dept. of Homeland Security's "Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report for 21 July 2010"'

    According to the report, " “It was revealed that a link to terrorist material, including bomb-making instructions and an al-Qaeda ‘hit list', " were contained in the offending blog.

    Furthermore, it appears, from the report, that it was Burstnet's decision to take down the entire site rather than just the offending blog.
    "Upon review, BurstNET determined that the posted material, in addition to potentially inciting dangerous activities, specifically violated the BurstNET acceptable use policy. "This policy strictly prohibits the posting of ‘terrorist propaganda, racist material, or bomb/weapon instructions.’ Due to this violation and the fact that the site had a history of previous abuse, BurstNET elected to immediately disable the system."

    I'm still wondering, why take down the entire site? It seems counterproductive to good business to make 72,999 customers upset for the actions of one. It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.

    "Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven." ~Psalm 85:11