For those of you who have been following this food fight,
There's a wanker who does not like our blog because we act rowdy and curse. I think the
problem stems from him getting fired from the Badnarik 2004 campaign as webmaster, and he
has had it in for Steve Van Dyke and Steve Gordon ever since. He's come after others, such as Loretta Nall, as proxies since then.
R. Noval, the Bike Messenger, who also blogs at said wanker's blog, commented....
You all are, of course, welcome to post your views at smallgov, as we are loathe to block commentary, as Mr. dondero, I’m sure, will attest.
Apparently not, as some of us did in fact comment, and our comments were...well, erased.
Scroll down and read the comments that were erased for yourself, reproduced in our comments and see if that action was merited.
Your move, Dirasian 
Oh yeah, this has very little to do with the subject at hand other than the general issue of censorship, but I thought some of you might enjoy it anyway. Via Kissing Corporal Kate
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Meh, fuck Dirasian.
Not even if you pay me.
Well, for six figures and up I might have to consider it.
I’d be willing to throw in some vodka and a bleach shower to cleanse the dirtiness of the act… as well as several layers of skin.
Well one of the dudes over there is talking to me (unless it gets taken down). I honestly don’t understand what their deal is. Its going to be a rough go if your fighting for “freedom” by pointing out another blog doesn’t have the “freedom” to use vulgar language.
Did you see something in my comments that were removed from their blog that warranted them being removed?
They are toward the end of the comment section here:
http://www.lastfreevoice.com/2007/02/17/some-wanker-needs-blog-traffic-starts-fight/
Here is one of the comments that got removed. Judge for yourself if you think it’s vulgar:
Robert,
I don’t think any of us are interested in intimidating you out of freely expressing your views. Personally, I agree with your views. (I don’t agree with Greg’s criticism of Loretta, Hammer of Truth when it was up, or this site, but that is a separate matter). Expressing views freely is what this site is all about, after all.
I don’t know to what extent LP blog is truly censored. It does send a lot of comments into the spam filter and a lot of times it is hard to figure out why. We have the same problem here, but I manage to pull comments like yours above – and some of mine – out of the spam filter; Steve Gordon may just be too busy to do that.
In my own experience Steve is a big proponent of open expresseion – he set up an LP of Alabama site (way before he worked at national) where users had our own blogs, and I expressed my extremist views on a regular basis. He also was instrumental in popularizing Hammer of Truth, which had a freewheling commentary, as do we.
Matthew Dailey was running the LP blog for a while, he’s gone now (including, I heard, from the party) so policies may have changed.
I’ve heard rumors that the LP blog is content-censored, but I have not personally experienced it. Right now I am possibly the most frequent commenter there.
I tried to post something to smallgov blog one time, and it did not post there.
Hardly.
I like the freewheeling atmosphere here and the opportunity it provides to discuss my ideas with those who are striving for liberty but picture it, or the path there, differently from me.
We still have much more in common with each other ideologically than we do with most people who are not here.
Oh, yeah, and I like to curse. So fucking what? I think my views would hold up just fine without it; it’s rather like adding spicing to food. If the food would taste like shit without the spicing, you are not doing it right.
As for Eric’s comment – it’s downright ridiculous. He has received plenty of proof that Rohrabacher was not the founder of the Libertarian movement.
He claims to have been friends with Murray Rothbard and Karl Hess, among others; what does he think, that they were disciples of Rohrabacher? The fact that he keeps repeating this bullshit tells you all you need to know about him.
As does the fact that he openly called himself a bullshitter. Or that he maliciously disrespected my privacy at third party watch. Or that he thinks Rudolf Giuliani is a libertarian.
But enough about Eric.
This:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/6796#comment-33363
is exactly the kind of activism we need more of. Here is another example:
http://www.freewayblogger.com/
It doesn’t require a lot of money or people to do.
I took Mr. Noval at his word, and posted the comment which follows his (quoted above) on smallgov blog. My comment also referred to Tim West’s claim that posts are content-censored at smallgov blog.
This comment, was up until for several days, when it vanished along with my subsequent comment.
In between, RNoval replied to me as follows;
RNoval:
My reply, which posted but then quickly disappeared, paraphrased:
The following comment also went up; but promptly disappeared.
…And the last comment just disappeared too.
By the way, I removed the curse words before posting those comments at SG blog, but my comments were still taken down, as was Jason’s original comment.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but last time I checked I didn’t write for LFV, I’m simply a fan of the site. Shows ya how much they actually pay attention to what goes on here.
I’m just wondering why they deleted my comments after talking about what wonderful proponents of free speech they are and complaining about the same thing supposedly happening at LP blog?
btw got some comments stuck in the moderation qeue on your blog in “Phillies Calls For Party Loyalty”.
My comments deal has been wonky of late and I can’t figure out why.
Sun 4 Mar 2007
Last Weekend’s Tech Difficulties
Posted by Administrator under News and Events
http://www.smallgov.org/?p=386
Yes, last weekend my web hosting company had technical difficulties. The server was in bad enough shape that everybody got moved to a new machine and accounts were restored from backup. A couple postings and comments were lost (apparently my web hosting company does not do daily backups). I don’t do frequent backups myself, so those few things are permanently gone. My apologies.
One Response to “Last Weekend’s Tech Difficulties”
1. paul Says:
March 5th, 2007 at 12:19 am
So, does that mean that if I re-post my comments to the thread about Hrant Dink and Last Free Voice that they will not be deleted this time?
I’ll keep them clean and edit out the curse-words.
-paul
http://lastfreevoice.com/
for anyone following along, the small-gov admin has bow replied that he did not delete my comments and wil not delete them if I post them again, so I wil do so over the weekend.
My apologies if I misinterpreted what happened.