From Newsbusters:
It turns out that there is an interesting pattern where it concerns the blogs that Google's Blogspot team have summarily locked down on their service. They all belong to the Just Say No Deal coalition, a group of blogs that are standing against the Obama campaign. It seems the largest portion of these blogs are Hillary supporting blogs, too.Lock step, goose step, it's the Obama two-step.
All I can say is, WOW! If Google is willing to abuse its power like this even against fellow leftists, what does it plan against conservatives, the folks Google hates even more!?
Here is a list of the Blogspot blogs that have been frozen by Google thus far:
* Blue Lyon @ http://bluelyon.blogspot.com
* Come A Long Way @ http://comealongway.blogspot.com
* Hillary or Bust @ http://hillaryorbust.blogspot.com
* McCain Democrats @ http://mccaindemocrats.blogspot.com
* NObama Blog @ http://nobamablog.blogspot.com
* politicallizard.blogspot.com @ http://thelizardannex.blogspot.com
* Reflections in Tyme @ http://reflections-in-tyme.blogspot.com
**UPDATE**
I have been hesitant to post this update because I cannot find a link to prove the claim, but it is starting to look like this Blogspot shut down of anti-Obama sites occurred because of a concerted effort by Obama supporters.
What they did was go to the Blogspot addresses found on the site of the NoObama coalition called Just Say No Deal and constantly hit the "mark as spam" link so that Google's Blogger would be flooded with spam warnings. This caused Google/Blogger to freeze the sites marked.
Apparently, this campaign merely took advantage of Google/Blogger's flawed system of finding spam blogs. So, it looks like what we have here is an Obama dirty trick to shut down political opposition. Looks like Obmatons aren't much for that whole democracy thing, eh?
Once I find a link to an Obama site talking about this attack, I will post it.
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1 comments:
Okay, friend, you found one.
I'm an enthusiastic Obama supporter and I thought it was a coordinated attack from the other side.
I had gas poured on my fire a few minutes ago here but after searching a bit I came across this: It seems Blogger is trying to delete REAL spam and malware blogs from its' system, and unfortunately many innocent blogs are being caught in the crossfire!
Many believe that people are abusing the "Flag this blog" link which appears in the Blogger nav-bar. It's also possible that malicious readers are reporting innocent blogs as spam. Rather than reviewing blogs first, the Blogger system appears to lock down suspected spam blogs instantly. More at this link.
I'm a little bit let down it isn't political. Too bad.
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