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ABCNEWS.com has banned me twice
02/24/09 | Mel

Posted on 02/24/2009 7:28:17 AM PST by mel

Realizing that simply posting at FR is akin to preaching to the choir, I took it upon myself to post on other sites. Apparently, it was too radical because I have been banned again. The first time, I thought it was simply a computer error, so I re-registered and I was able to post. Now, this morning, I realize I must have said something way off because the same thing has occurred. I guess a 54 year old female pharmacist, who goes to church regularly, donates to animal charities, belongs to the garden club, likes to travel, read biographies, but who is also concerned about her beloved country is simply too much of a wacko to post on there.


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I think we are only beginning to see a small part of the censorship that is coming, I guess when I called Big Zero a psychotic that was too much. I promise, the second time I registered, I really tried to tone it down to very calm statements. I just got carried away.
1 posted on 02/24/2009 7:28:17 AM PST by mel
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I’ve been lucid and polite on other boards such as CNN and have been banned also. Last week, I got banned from the Golf Channel comments page. LOL.


2 posted on 02/24/2009 7:30:33 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: mel

They prolly cross-ref’d your IP address to the banned list.


3 posted on 02/24/2009 7:30:42 AM PST by j_tull (Jeremiah Wright's prayer has been answered. God has damned America.)
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To: mel

How long are “the people” going to put up with “King Zero” and his buddies in the media?


4 posted on 02/24/2009 7:31:46 AM PST by A. Morgan (Every night I pray that Rezko and Blago roll over on Obama!)
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To: mel

I’ve had a similar experience on some news sites too.

They are censoring opinions they don’t agree with, no matter how respectful you are.

As “hateful” and all that as conservatives are supposed to be, the hate seems to come from the left.

I have never seen anything as hateful on Free Republic as some of what I have seen on DU and Daily Kos and Huffington Post. I’ve seen lots of disagreement and criticism of liberals and Obama here, but not the blind rage at conservatives and Bush that you see on those other sites. Yet those other sites will ban people with different opinions. Unbelieveable isn’t it?


5 posted on 02/24/2009 7:32:19 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: mel

and if you beleive the Wash Post- ABC news polls you are stuck on stupid. I have talked to people who had Obama signs and talked so wonderfully about him, tell me what a mistake they made.


6 posted on 02/24/2009 7:32:31 AM PST by scooby321
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To: mel
I guess a 54 year old female pharmacist, who goes to church regularly, donates to animal charities, belongs to the garden club, likes to travel, read biographies, but who is also concerned about her beloved country is simply too much of a wacko to post on there.

Let your baggy jeans ride below your butt, put your ball cap on sideways and complain about not finding any jobs within walking distance of your (blighted) neighborhood.

7 posted on 02/24/2009 7:32:54 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Free Speech? Not any more. Next, they will come knocking on your door; maybe not even knocking.


8 posted on 02/24/2009 7:33:01 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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My comments are regularly removed from Washington Post - and I do not use the foul language that most of the posters at Wash Post online use.


9 posted on 02/24/2009 7:33:58 AM PST by PGR88
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Not as bad as they used to be but the discussion boards at the Internet Movie Database deletes most conservative posts. Crackpot leftist moonbat posts almost never get deleted and are up forever.
10 posted on 02/24/2009 7:34:41 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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Yeag, I’ve been banned from the Austin Pravda (Statesman) permanently and from time to time from the Austin Chronicle (bigtime commie rag that also has entertainment listings).


11 posted on 02/24/2009 7:36:28 AM PST by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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Yeag=Yeah


12 posted on 02/24/2009 7:36:50 AM PST by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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Are your comments critical of Obama and Democrats and liberals? If so I bet that’s why they have been removed.

I can’t believe they let foul language stay on those sites as long as that anger and rage is directed at conservatives and others who don’t toe the liberal line.

Do these sites believe in freedom of speech? Very good question..................


13 posted on 02/24/2009 7:38:27 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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I forgot to add that for a time at the IMDB boards most movies discussed were politicized. It was really bad around the time of Micheal Moore's movie Farfegnugen 7-11 ( Fahrenheit 9-11 ). These were movies that had no political content whatsoever.
14 posted on 02/24/2009 7:39:19 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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"..too much of a wacko to post on there"

It is, after all, their site. They set the rules. They bar anyone with opposing opinions.

Just wondering, BTW; why do you bother posting there in the first place? Are you trying to talk sense to them? Trying to convert somebody to conservativsm? Neither enterprise will yield positive results.

15 posted on 02/24/2009 7:45:50 AM PST by Designer (We are SO scrood!)
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Dang! You sound hot!


16 posted on 02/24/2009 7:47:24 AM PST by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: mel
Just a guess.... but perhaps your choice of words was a bit too aggressive for the tastes of ABCNews.com.

I've found that the best approach in such venues is to be faultlessly polite in your eviscerations. If a lady from Tennessee can count herself a "southern woman," I'm sure you know exactly the technique I'm talking about....

17 posted on 02/24/2009 7:50:12 AM PST by r9etb
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who is also concerned about her beloved country is simply too much of a wacko to post on there.
Take a number, get in line. :]
18 posted on 02/24/2009 7:51:36 AM PST by carumba (The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
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Apparently, it was too radical because I have been banned again.

Would be interesting to see examples of your posts that got you banned.

19 posted on 02/24/2009 7:52:47 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“...Are your comments critical of Obama and Democrats and liberals? If so I bet that’s why they have been removed...”

YES, the are critical!

I am sensing the propogandists at WaPo don’t like the word “Obambi” and anything critical of homosexuals is removed quickly.


20 posted on 02/24/2009 8:02:52 AM PST by PGR88
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