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Inconvenient truths too much for FreeRepublic

June 19th, 2009 | Matthew J. Weaver

FreeRepublic TrollI am a reg­u­lar reader and occa­sional com­menter at FreeRe­pu­bic. Well, I should put this in past tense as I have now been labeled “troll” and had my priv­i­leges revoked. Why? Very sim­ply because I pre­sented incon­ve­nient truths via a Haaretz arti­cle that FreeRepublic’s staff found con­trary to their knee-​jerk pro-​Israeli viewpoints.

This is all too com­mon with Web sites that pre­fer to be echo cham­bers of approved views. Some obvi­ous sites that, as a result, are just pro­pa­ganda out­lets are:

  • Free Repub­lic
  • Talk­ing Points Memo
  • Red State
  • Daily Kos
  • NoQuar­terUSA

While it is the right of any Web site to use dis­cre­tion and cen­sor com­men­tary they post, they should clearly state if they are open forums or that they only want con­cur­ring views. Label­ing unwanted com­men­ta­tors as “trolls” is disin­ge­nious at best. These sites should show a lit­tle more hon­esty and maturity.

And what about The Inde­pen­dent View? At the moment I mod­er­ate all posts. I do wel­come thought­ful and provoca­tive com­ments regard­less of the view­point. I will not pub­lish, though, any com­ment that uses offen­sive lan­guage, rude or per­sonal attacks, or are off-​topic. In the near future, once the cur­rent redesign and upgrade of the Web site is com­plete, I antic­i­pate open­ing the Web site up for more direct posts and com­ments from non-​anonymous writers.

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  • Sarah Palin, version 2009: Going rogue, getting even (San Francisco Chronicle)
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    The Climate Research Unit says, according to the Telegraph, that they will release the raw data that global warming is based upon.  At the same time the Times reports that the same folks now admit that the raw data was thrown away.  All they kept was the manipulated data they created to support global warming.  As Roger Pielke, professor of environmental studies at Colorado University, is quoted in the Times, “The CRU is basically saying, ‘Trust us’."

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