Recently, Creative Minority Report disclosed of a possible attempt by Blogger to censor blogs, specifically "conservative" Catholic blogs. The story goes that some blogs were being labeled as "spam" if they were critical of Presidential candidate Barack Obama. CMR has since reported notice from Blogger saying that it is a system-wide problem, and not limited to blogs of a particular ideological slant.
We haven't noticed anthing here. While Blogger has improved considerably in the last two years (otherwise man with black hat would have gone through with plans to move elsewhere), they are still not clever enough to pull off something as complex as ideologically-based censorship. Not like those folks at YouTube, who seem to have a habit of labeling politically conservative video clips as "hate speech" when radical Islam is criticized (as opposed to when Muslims talk about killing infidels -- oh, no, that's just free expression, duh!). Just ask Michelle Malkin and the gang over at Hot Air. These days, Blogger works reasonably well, and sometimes the technical staff actually responds to a problem within the same week, if not always with the answer to your question.
Maybe sometime before November of this year, anyone who has any control of any form of mass media will quit trying to manipulate this Presidential election, ignoring the feeling running up or down their leg, long enough to let us all make up our own minds, while our minds are still ours to make up. Meanwhile, "yes we can" enjoy the accompanying video clip.
God bless America. HOO-rah.
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