Bowerbird:
jon noring said:
Michael Hart is on moderation, as most of the others on TeBC.
unless something has changed recently, the headers clearly show michael's posts have had to be "approved" before posting.
Yes, as I said, Michael Hart, along with most of the other 2900+ subscribers of TeBC, are on moderation.
except for the occasional new subscriber, nobody else's headers show such "approval" was required before the message was posted.
At least half, if not the majority, of messages posted the last couple months have been moderated. As I've noted before, all newcomers are moderated -- the old-timers will eventually be switched to moderation. In fact, I almost did this switch before my trip to SF/Oregon a few weeks ago, but decided to do the switch afterwards. Soon...
whether this enforced moderation constitutes "censorship" or not depends on how we choose to define the word. but my best guess is that michael feels that his voice is being silenced...
I'll let Michael state how much he really has been "censored". Ask him how many of his literally hundreds (or maybe over a thousand) of his messages to TeBC have been disallowed (Michael Hart is the number one poster to TeBC, and though I sometimes disagree with him, greatly cherish his message.) I know the number, and it is *very small* -- I mean an integer extremely close to zero. And the reasons had to do more with controlling an out-of-control topic than anything else. Anyway, Michael is also on moderation on the Book People list. Of course, there everyone is on moderation, as I plan to do soon.
and of course i've been _banned_outright_ from jon's listserve, for many years now. he will tell you that's because i was "rude" or some such nonsense. everyone knows it's because he wanted to silence me, because my comments gummed up his hype machine.
Laugh. Pot, Kettle, Black. (Referring to Bowerbird's claim in a message earlier today that Branko practices "historical revisionism".) Jon Noring