That doesn’t mean it isn’t censorship when you stop someone from communicating in an ostensibly public forum. Perhaps most here think this is a good case of censorship. It doesn’t eliminate the irony in this thread.

Banning a member for employing NO TASTE isn’t censorship, and what is lost on you is the fact that his comment is still available to read, so any thoughts of censorship vanish, even by the terms of that Wiki definition. What the folks who run the Daily Kos or DU perform is much more like censorship, in that any comment they don’t like disappears.

MikeG hasn’t been silenced, whoever he/she is, merely disallowed from continuing to fail the standards for membership established by this site.

Anybody know what’s going on in Lebabnon??? Watching the FOX news coverage is about as useful as the “loud noises in Haiti” Onion spoof from a couple weeks ago…

Foxnews.com has an update on the fighting near our family village…

The military airlift began in earnest Friday as the United States rushed ammunition and other equipment to the Lebanese army. Two military transports landed at the Beirut airport in the morning, spotted by many residents of the capital. The military refused to comment, apparently because of the sensitivity of the matter.

I say we should defund PBS now anyway. Sick of the power play with these peckers…ever since I saw that sesame street with them damn muslims under a tree having a picnic telling the little kids how peaceful they were.

BULLSHIT. My kid will never watch sesame street again.

Censorship is the government blocking free speech. What we do by banning MikeG is freedom of association, or in this case, the freedom not to associate.

Bryan on May 24, 2007 at 10:02 PM

Well said.

The difference here is what’s in Bad Taste, not censorship. Putting ourselves on the same level as the Kos Kids is likened to Bush flinging insults like Harry Reid does. It is beneath us all to lump ethnicities as such. Comment all you wish, but when comments like MikeG’s cross the line of decency then it’s time to take the party elsewhere.

And is afraid of anything that doesn’t tow the multiculti kuumbayah line.

Islam MUST be peaceful.

So they need to slant the reporting to agree with the WISH.

Afraid to read about Mohammad’s dismal, slave-holding, pedophilia-promoting, war-mongering career, honestly.

Or examine the 1400 year long, Nazi-like history of Muslim conquests, spreading from the ME, across North Africa, into Spain, up in the Balkans, overwhelming Turkey, annihilating Buddhist Afghanistan, subsuming Malaysia, ad nauseam.

The Whitewash Network prefers to keep painting smiley faces across the Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, Jain, Hindu, pagan, and Arabian polytheist sepulchres left behind by the marauding Mohammedans.

PBS = Please Be Silent (about the real problem).

There was controversy a short while ago over PBS’ attempted oppression of a new Frank Gaffney documentary, Islam vs Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center, which focuses on moderate Muslims and their views on extremists….

Pot, meet kettle.

Does anybody think that this film will get even an airing, let alone a fair shake with two liberal loving corporate entities?

This is the first line from wikipedia – not always reliable, but easy to find.

Anyway, PBS falls under “government” and “mass media” descriptions – Hot Air banning someone for being an abusive jerk doesn’t fit the category. Interestingly, rather than simply “disappearing” the offending comment, the banning was done in the full light of day – very unlike how the mass media does its rampant stealth editing online.

Censorship is the government blocking free speech.

Really? I can’t find that particular definition in any dictionary I have at home, nor can I find it in any online dictionary.

As I type this it isn’t even 6am on Friday (the Islamic eqiv. of Sunday). Give the stringers a chance to finish morning prayers and we should start hearing some new news from Middle Eastern outlets in about 2 or 3 hours time.

Just a slightly different censorship then that which prompted the thread…

Resolute on May 24, 2007 at 10:00 PM

Censorship is the government blocking free speech. What we do by banning MikeG is freedom of association, or in this case, the freedom not to associate.