Friday, July 07, 2006
Removal of Mr. Brown link
I've had a Mr. Brown link since the Te Kwa days in my small collection of links. I'm removing Mr. Brown's link at this time. I'm disturbed by the implications of Mr. Brown's act of censorship of certain comments in a his comments page where hundreds of people are commenting on the lack of free speech.
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4 comments:
Curious - what implications do you refer to?
I won't go far as to make guesswork, but I do know that MrBrown can still be held liable for comments on his blog even if he was not the creator of the comments.
the comment(s) he censored were criticising brown and the people who were posting comments. It was a viewpoint refreshingly different from the rest, and was not of the type which would attract a defamation suit from anybody other than Brown or his supporters.
He demonstrated a willingness to censor a comment which was not obviously illegal or defamatory, and this implied to me that he was scarcely different from the demonized version of the authorities painted by most of the people who posted comments.
I cannot promote such a person's blog in my site.
i see your viewpoint, even though I am not for pure unfiltered censorship. i agree that MrBrown's censorship was rather unnecessary (although perhaps he might have reason to do otherwise).
Cheers
you can check out http://miketan.blogspot.com/2006/07/mrbrown-today-column-suspended.html to see some comments by somebody who claims to be irctp ... claiming it to be his original content (and I agree that it is a reasonable description)
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