I posted a comment on a blog today, and was immediately rubbed out and in the place of my comment was a message about how the post wasn’t about whatever I had stated.
Ouch.
CENSORED!
What happened? Well, I went to a religious site, one that I have been reading for a while in my internet reader and they made a comment about a church in my new city. They gave it a positive note, and I simply replied with “You’re wrong, and this is why”. The person that writes this blog was saying a positive note about a church that they have never been to, and while I wasn’t straight out condemning the place, I do find that the statement they used to describe the place was in error. I of course was immediately erased, and then it hit me…this is why christians and christian blogs get such a bad name. Censorship.
My problem is NOT with the content, or the act of deleting my comment. My problem is more with the fact that the blog has an open comment policy. Anyone can go to this site and leave a comment, and there are no signs or indications about moderation at all. In fact, the site invites heckling by the mere subject matter of the posts involved. I simply was making an adjustment to the first point of five which the writer was talking about. I wasn’t even claiming that they were overtly wrong, but rather sharing my experience with this fine city that I am now living in and how the church hasn’t been the picture perfect place that the writer made it out to be. Moreover, I spoke positively about the pastor that preaches there, and chose grammar that was well suited and appropriate for the site in mind.
However, I was snuffed out and was given a backhanded response of sorts and deleted.
I hate censorship and I hate how blogs that offer comments without clear moderation and welcome input think they are high and mighty and cancel out your comments. I didn’t leave spam, and I didn’t leave hate messages, I simply was responding to what they posted about a topic that I am close to. But nope, I was censored. Censored and then ridiculed for even coming back.
Well, I guess that’s one less podcast, one less rss feed, and one less site that I have to read. I don’t blame people for bashing Christian sites, christianity, or christians, because as a whole we make iditos of ourselves and screw over our own “brothers and sisters” for even trying to make community out of something so inviting as a blog post and/or comment section. God forbid that someone would respond to me directly rather than completely deleting what I had to contribute.
I’m done venting, you can now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
A Note on Censorship
I posted a comment on a blog today, and was immediately rubbed out and in the place of my comment was a message about how the post wasn’t about whatever I had stated.
Ouch.
CENSORED!
What happened? Well, I went to a religious site, one that I have been reading for a while in my internet reader and they made a comment about a church in my new city. They gave it a positive note, and I simply replied with “You’re wrong, and this is why”. The person that writes this blog was saying a positive note about a church that they have never been to, and while I wasn’t straight out condemning the place, I do find that the statement they used to describe the place was in error. I of course was immediately erased, and then it hit me…this is why christians and christian blogs get such a bad name. Censorship.
My problem is NOT with the content, or the act of deleting my comment. My problem is more with the fact that the blog has an open comment policy. Anyone can go to this site and leave a comment, and there are no signs or indications about moderation at all. In fact, the site invites heckling by the mere subject matter of the posts involved. I simply was making an adjustment to the first point of five which the writer was talking about. I wasn’t even claiming that they were overtly wrong, but rather sharing my experience with this fine city that I am now living in and how the church hasn’t been the picture perfect place that the writer made it out to be. Moreover, I spoke positively about the pastor that preaches there, and chose grammar that was well suited and appropriate for the site in mind.
However, I was snuffed out and was given a backhanded response of sorts and deleted.
I hate censorship and I hate how blogs that offer comments without clear moderation and welcome input think they are high and mighty and cancel out your comments. I didn’t leave spam, and I didn’t leave hate messages, I simply was responding to what they posted about a topic that I am close to. But nope, I was censored. Censored and then ridiculed for even coming back.
Well, I guess that’s one less podcast, one less rss feed, and one less site that I have to read. I don’t blame people for bashing Christian sites, christianity, or christians, because as a whole we make iditos of ourselves and screw over our own “brothers and sisters” for even trying to make community out of something so inviting as a blog post and/or comment section. God forbid that someone would respond to me directly rather than completely deleting what I had to contribute.
I’m done venting, you can now return to your regularly scheduled programming.