This is the second time that’s happened. And that story is at:
http://johnofmirecourt.wordpress.com/

And the list is available there. All those horrible left wing news sites. Which makes you wonder just what direction the Columbian leans…

Why are they are so concerned about their readers seeing different points of view?

The Columbian doesn’t post their standards of acceptability, but cuts and bans with no notification.

So, I wonder how long I get to use this login?

Hmmm, there were several posts by D. Evans in the Feb 28 thread that just disappeared in the last 12 hours.

As were some of mine……

Much like the poorly retouched Soviet censorship. If the editors would actually go and remove all the responses, it would be a bit less obvious.

So, we had some crash in the summer, causing a loss of records – that’s poor management. And now we have someone, yes anonymous and un-contactable, deleting posts up to 20 hours after posting. That’s censorship. Granted, it is a private site (edit: privately owned) that can make a choice of what is posted or not. But to do that without posting a statement of criteria is, sorry for the broken record, poor management and yes, censorship.

So, I’m guessing that there are some arbitrary and undefined standards being capriciously and erratically applied. I’ve noticed long delays in posting, and now pages being refreshed after ‘processing’ without the new post being added. Glad the management feels that is worth spending their (our) money on. It won’t be mine.

For the local paper of record, this is outrageous. At least be polite enough to send a reason why. But that would be good management and communication. What should we expect from a newspaper.

Thinking that the editors must have thought the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts were a good idea, The banned John of Mirecourt posting also at http://johnofmirecourt.wordpress.com/

Postings to the Opinion discussion page started taking a long time to process. Or would process and the post not appear…

Then wouldn’t process…..

Then not able to log in…

And no letter sent, no policy stated, just inexplicable dead ends on threads….

Seems to be an unstated policy, many searches link to dead ends…

Free speech?

Much like the poorly retouched Soviet censorship, it seems posts are being deleted. If the editors would actually go and remove all the responses, it would be a bit less obvious.

So, we had some crash in the summer, causing a loss of records – that’s poor management.

And now we have someone, yes anonymous and un-contactable,  deleting posts up to 20 hours after posting. That’s censorship. Granted, it is a private site (edit: privately owned) that can make a choice of what is posted or not. But to do that without posting a statement of criteria is, sorry for the broken record, poor management and yes, censorship.

So, I’m guessing that there are some arbitrary and undefined standards being capriciously and erratically applied. I’ve noticed long delays in posting, and now pages being refreshed after ‘processing’ without the new post being added. Glad the management feels that is worth spending their (our) money on. It won’t be mine.

For the local paper of record, this is outrageous.

At least be polite enough to send a reason why. But that would be good management and communication. What should we expect from a newspaper.

Thinking that the editors must have thought the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts were a good idea,
John

Obvious from the thread that there were several others.
Aljazeera (http://english.aljazeera.net/)

Alternet (http://www.alternet.org/)

American Civil Liberties Union (http://www.aclu.org/index.html)

American Prospect (http://www.prospect.org/)

Americans United for Separation of Church and State (http://www.au.org)

BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/)

Bill Moyers Journal (http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html)

C-Span (http://www.c-span.org/)

Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org/)

Center for Media and Democracy (http://www.prwatch.org/)

Climate Progress (http://climateprogress.org/)

Common Dreams (http://www.commondreams.org)

Congressional Quarterly (http://www.cqpolitics.com)

Consortium News (http://www.consortiumnews.com/)

Consumer Reports WebWatch (http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/)

Crooked Timber (http://crookedtimber.org)

DemocracyNow (http://www.democracynow.org/)

Dissent (http://www.dissentmagazine.org/)

Economic Populist (http://www.economicpopulist.org/)

Education Week (http://www.edweek.org)

EPA (http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/index.html)

Evergreen Politics (http://www.evergreenpolitics.com/)

Full Frontal Scrutiny (http://www.frontgroups.org/)

Glenn Greenwald (http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/)

GovTrack (http://www.govtrack.us/)

Harpers (http://www.harpers.org/)

Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/)

In These Times (http://www.inthesetimes.com/)

Informed Consent (http://www.juancole.com/)

Media Matters for America (http://mediamatters.org/)

Mother Jones (http://www.motherjones.com/)

New Internationalist (http://www.newint.org/)

Northwest Progressive Institute (http://www.nwprogressive.org/portal/) (http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/)

NOW (http://www.pbs.org/now/)

Open Left (http://www.openleft.com/)

Orcinus (http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/)

People for the American Way (http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homepagenew)

People’s Weekly World (http://www.pww.org/)

Pew Center on Global Climate Change (http://www.pewclimate.org/)

Pew Research Center for People and the Press (http://people-press.org/ )

Populist Party (http://populistamerica.com/)

Progressive Historians(http://www.progressivehistorians.com/)

Quaker Peace Center (http://www.seymmeetings.org/QuakerPeaceCenter/QPC.html)

Quaker United Nations Office (http://www.quno.org/)

Right Wing Watch (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/)

The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/)

The Nation (http://www.thenation.com/)

The New Republic (http://www.tnr.com/index.html)

The Real News Network (http://therealnews.com/t/)

TruthDig (http://www.truthdig.com/)

Utne Reader (http://www.utne.com)

WashBlog (http://www.washblog.com/)

World Socialist (http://www.wsws.org/)

Search Results

Page linked to?  http://columbian.com/article/20090128/OPINION01/701289969

Odd, the list isn’t there…