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Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform
Publius' Forum ^ | 6/29/08 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 06/29/2008 1:53:36 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus

It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is effectively squelched. Thus far, Google has terminated the access by blog owners to 7 such sites and the list may be growing. Boy, it must be nice for Barack Obama to have an ally powerful enough to silence his opponents like that!

It isn't just conservative sites that Google's Blogger platform is eliminating. For instance, www.comealongway.blogspot.com has been frozen and this one is a Hillary supporting site. The operator of Come a Long Way has a mirror site off the Blogspot platform and has today posted this notice:

I used to have a happy internet home on Blogger: www.comealongway.blogspot.com. Then on Wednesday night, June 25, I received the following e-mail:

Dear Blogger user,

This is a message from the Blogger team.

Your blog, at http://comealongway.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

It turns out that there is an interesting pattern where it concerns the blogs that Google's Blogspot team have summarily locked down on their service. They all belong to the Just Say No Deal coalition, a group of blogs that are standing against the Obama campaign. It seems the largest portion of these blogs are Hillary supporting blogs, too.

All I can say is, WOW! If Google is willing to abuse its power like this even against fellow leftists, what does it plan against conservatives, the folks Google hates even more!?

Here is a list of the Blogspot blogs that have been frozen by Google thus far:

...Read the rest at Publius' Forum.com


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; censorship; democrat; democratparty; democrats; elections; google; googleconscensor; googlecorrupt; googledems; googlessp; nobama08; obama; propagandawingofdnc
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To: RepublitarianRoger2
You jumped all over this post of mine....

Monday, June 30, 2008 4:17:09 PM · 69 of 80 Osage Orange to RepublitarianRoger2 I'm a FReeper....I know stuff, and I knew that. Thanks-

The first part was a joke..a TONGUE IN CHEEK...statement if you will..Nothing more. The second part was affirming that I did in fact know that.

You chose to drive off the cliff...and get your panties in a wad.

Get over your self...Roger.

Geesh........yeah, drop it. LOL!!

Like you will.........you probably want to call me some other name. Great, debating skills you have there, Rog.

81 posted on 07/01/2008 12:27:33 PM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: Osage Orange

OK, then. As you know, the written word is not a “rich” form of communication, so sometimes the intent is not at all apparent.

I’d just come off of a couple of other threads — and have seen a history of instances — where FReepers tend to make condescending arguments to other posters, citing their time as a FReeper as being some sort of indication of their level of knowledge/intelligence/superiority over the poster they’re arguing with. This had the distinct appearance of another one of those posts.

I think that if you had explained what you just said in your last post in your first reply to me, then none of this exchange would have happened. I was simply trying to be informative, and I thought I posted politely, and I think that we are actually essentially on the same page in our opinions on the subject of this thread (I like Dogpile also, btw). So I was taken aback at what I considered to be a rather snotty (and snooty) reply on your part. If it was not intended that way and was instead simply tongue-in-cheek, then that’s fine. Again, it is sometimes difficult to discern the true inflection of the written word.

Good day now.


82 posted on 07/01/2008 1:00:23 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: RepublitarianRoger2
Fair enough........

I also may have read into your posts...something that wasn't there.

No worries...

83 posted on 07/01/2008 1:47:34 PM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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