Censorship and hypocrisy on what used to be my favorite blog...
July 3, 2009 - Posted by Susan Ferman
http://susanferman.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/censorship-and-hypocrisy-on-what-used-to-be-my-favorite-blog/Just in case anyone has failed to notice that there is now one less blog listed on my blogroll, I thought I would take a few minutes [well, okay, maybe quite a few] to explain why I am no longer willing to send any web traffic at all over to a blog that has over 8,000 registered users. To be sure, with traffic like that, the one or two hits that might get directed over there by my little blog are less of a drop in the bucket than a drop in the ocean, but on general principle I am just not going to send even one person over there. If you will forgive the conceit, I am not even going to name the blog, blog owner, or the ->-bleeped-<- Contributor in Chief (heretofore to be referred to as ACC) because if you don't already know who I am talking about, you don't need to be helping their Hit Counter go absolutely bat ->-bleeped-<- (and in turn help them to sell advertising), when they are already getting more hits courtesy of their latest bit of ->-bleeped-<-tery than they rightly deserve. In all fairness, it really used to be a good blog; in my opinion, one of the best. Then a funny thing happened: The blog almost doubled in registered users, while at roughly the same time ACC (who, in all honesty, had been making a habit of banning any commenter who made the mistake of disagreeing with her too strongly for at least the past year) was given a Major Story to cover as a New Media "Journalist". And that, friends, is when the ego hit the fan.
And I ran right into it.
