The Language of Pocket Potentates

One may look in vain for a posting on 1st August 2008. That is because the blog was locked down by Blogger/Google pending a manual investigation into the matter of spam blogging. As it turned out, we were not alone in this blegodemic!

Atlas Shrugs collected comments from a number of colleagues who also were locked down by the cyber bullies:

NEO EXPRESS SHUT DOWN BY OBAMA SUPPORTERS UPDATE: Add Thunder Road, Lock and Load

GOOGLE SHUTS DOWN ANTI-OBAMA SITES.

Google shuts down another site:Neo NeoCon wrote me,My apologies to NE readers; Apparently a wave of Obama supporters has “flagged” the Neocon Express as a “spam” site and have successfully shut us down until Google’s Blogger programmers can confirm that we are not a spam site. The process apparently takes about 48 hours.

Apparently, this is a glitch in the ‘Blogger’ system which allows anyone on the net to “flag” any Blogger site as a spam site. With enough “flags” they can shut down a site until Google manually inspects the site to confirm it’s a legitimate blog and not automated spam. Unfortunately, Obama supporters have been abusing this method which was designed to filter out real net spammers, and have been systematically flagging high profile “anti-Obama” blogs on the vast ‘Blogger’ system as “spam” in order to shut down debate.

I trust that Google will have us up and running in 48 hours as their e-mail to me stated. Again, My apologies; apparently it’s just part of the election “war” that is going on, especially on the internet, so I won’t take it personally. I do think it’s a bad reflection on Obama supporters. Keep my fingers crossed on Typepad.

Seems someone is scared of the truth as I found this when I went to post this morning. (....) >>>

Etcetera, etcetera ... courtesy of the neotot coercion brigade!

Update:

New York Sun has the story: "Anti-Obama Bloggers Say They Were Silenced"