Arianna Huffington is here promoting her new book, I see. She speaks of 'VIGOROUS DISCUSSION' yet will NOT ALLOW it on her blog, Huffington Post. A place where most days each comment must be vetted by a thuggish censor before it appears, rendering conversation impossible, as this process can take hours. On the days that the vetting system is broken, conversation flows.


If Arianna wants vigorous discussion, I am sure she goes elsewhere............such as BigThink, as most commentators at her site are trained to echo her POV.


Her site is one of horrific technical problems; excessive censorship; purging of posts that do not reflect her POV; or are deemed off-topic; and where all posts past and present are purged for minor infractions.


Examples:

http://www.bigthink.com/policy-politics/2008-elections/10636

http://www.bigthink.com/policy-politics/10644

http://www.bigthink.com/policy-politics/2008-elections/10643

http://www.bigthink.com/truth-justice/10646

http://www.bigthink.com/features/455


LOOK, there is a revolution brewing at Huffington as many long time bloggers are being abused and anger is rising. Coyote was there 3 years ago when Huffy first started up:


NoSpinTruthZone See Profile I'm a Fan of NoSpinTruthZone

If your posts get deleted.. send a note here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contact/pop/tech/

include the original post. The main moderator here is Volvobirkenstock. He's, more than likely, the one deleting the posts.. though to be safe.. send the message at different times to ensure that different people receive it and the situation is fully known.

 

The only way to combat cowards is to call them out.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/21/clinton-says-shes-willing_n_102934.html?page=2

(Volvobirkenstock is a regular commenter)

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Mary Coyote on May 23, 2008, 11:26 PM

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON purged the following post :

(In response to Bill Clinton shouting down a 9/11 protester at a public political event. He repeatedly shouted: %u201CHow dare you….How dare you….)


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9/11: A Damming Assessment of American Incompetence and Obsolescence
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Mr. Bill Clinton:
We were brought to Iraq on false pretenses; that much is now obvious. But those false pretenses were born of 9/11. We now know that the Gulf of Tonkin incident which authorized the tragic Vietnam War was also false.

So it is obvious that our government does indeed engage in conspiracy and Machiavellian falsehoods. Therefore a citizen who questions their government is a citizen engaged in LIBERTY and rather than condemned, be encouraged by statesmen such as yourself.


The official 9/11 myth is that no one saw this coming and little could be done to stop it. Yet we know that the security agencies of other countries knew and alerted us. We also know that low-level investigators found threads of the plot and were told to cease and desist. We know that superiors who ordered investigations terminated were not fired or disciplined, but promoted. Instead of being purged, the head of the CIA – George Tenet – was given a Presidential Medal, honors and a fat pension.

Is America so incompetent that failure is rewarded? My argument here is simple: if we eliminate conspiracy, then the remaining conclusion is that of unaddressed MASSIVE AND OVERRIDING INCOMPETENCE.


If after spending untold Billions of dollars on spy, defense and security agencies; if America was caught with her pants down by the TOTAL FAILURE of ALL her agencies, does this not indicate overriding, pervasive, serious and massive incompetence of our Security, Defense and Intelligence Institutions?

And if we can accept INCOMPETENCE as a logical alternative to CONSPIRACY, then why did not a PURGE take place?

Shouldn’t there have been a security purge? Somebody, at a minimum, should have been found to be responsible in each institution and fired. Thorough investigations should have taken place to discover incompetent systems.

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9/11: A Damming Assessment of American Incompetence and Obsolescence
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/26/bill-clinton-shouts-down-_n_70010.html?refresh_comments=1

(gone, all purged)

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Mary Coyote on May 24, 2008, 12:30 AM

Also here for detailed criticism:
http://www.bigthink.com/media-the-press/10642

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Luke Allen on June 13, 2008, 1:03 AM

Wow, I had no idea this stuff is such big time. I appreciate learning from you Coyote.

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