Everytime I try to leave a comment on a Blogger blog, the damned identity system hangs up and takes forever to let me sign in. Typepad is no picnic either. Registration is no panacea. Just growling.
1 response to “Damned Blogger comments”
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I’m boycotting a site that has introduced comment approval and has even taken to editing posts. As a last ditch attempt to convince them to rethink what they were introducing, I posted on my way out:
What is happening on tompeters is that we now have a ‘Comment Approval’ system if you want to post a link, a single link, not multiple links, even if you have been posting for months on the site and are well known to the regulars here. Posts considered ‘long-winded’ are now subject to deletion. Most alarming of all is that we are now being told that what we say can be altered, or modified, or rewritten.
That’s censorship. And in my view it is the worst form of censorship. It is one thing to tell someone “you have no voice here” and delete their comment. That’s bad enough (though I can understand the very occasional need for it), but it is far worse to alter what someone says because you are putting their name to your version of their ideas.
One can only hope they’ll revisit their decision to try to control people’s conversation. What’s everyone afraid of? That people will speak their minds? What else is the point of blogging? It is a chance for everyone to experience first hand what freedom of speech means. They go to experience it and what do they find? PC Police and censorship. That isn’t blogging.
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