@elonmusk
Dear Mr Musk,
I am writing to you and to
@X about one of the most
#egregious examples of
#Censorship of
#conservatives and
#ConservativeValues for the past 25 years, i.e., since the turn of the century.
On May 28, a popular conservative blog that has been on the internet for 21 years was suddenly and without warning deleted by
@Google. The blog “No Pasarán” was unceremoniously locked and removed by a member of Google's
#Blogger crew, without the courtesy of giving the slightest explanation why. (No Pasarán home:
no-pasaran.blogspot.com/)
Not just one single (allegedly) offending post reset to "draft status", mind you, but between 14,000 and 15,000 posts — 21 years' worth of patient writing and thorough reporting — removed and destroyed once and for all.
Believe it or not, that is not the worst of it:
As regards (allegedly) problematic individual posts, Blogger writes
"We have received a DMCA complaint for one or more of your blogs. Emails
with the details were sent to you and all affected posts have been reset to 'Draft' status";
But for the past two years at least, Blogger no longer bothers to follow its own rules and regulations,
1) dispensing with sending an email informing the blogmaster about the development and
2) instead of reverting the (allegedly) problematic post to draft status, eliminating it outright (!).
The writer might thus remain totally uninformed and in the dark (as I have) as to the total censorship.
Is it hyperbole to call this not only an assault on our First Amendment rights but reminiscent of Stasi methods?!
And now
#Blogger has gone ballistic, with no compunction whatsoever for
3) removing the blog in its entirety.
Referred to by
@instapundit's Professor
@glennhreynolds as "a classic blog" and one of the top three winners of the Best Blog in Europe award for three years, No Pasarán prides (prided?) itself on being thoroughly researched, fact-filled, and dispassionate.
As we wrote to
#Google's Blogger crew,
“If you didn't discover for 21 years — TWENTY-ONE YEARS — that a blog was violating your community guidelines (or, for that matter, any rules of common courtesy whatsoever), then it is likely that the problem was/is not the blog — which for over two decades has prided itself on being thoroughly researched, fact-filled, and dispassionate, linking adversaries as well as friends — but is caused by one of your young radical whippersnappers, someone (a drama queen?) who cannot stomach that there are opinions to the right of Karl Marx, opinions that must be by all means suppressed and crushed into the dust.
“Google, pray tell us: What kind of thought crime in one (allegedly) offending post is so serious that it warrants a punishment not to be reverted to 'Draft' status but to have between 14,000 and 15,000 posts, i.e., the entire 21-year run of the blog (with contents invisible to even the bloggers themselves) removed forever?”
FYI, as far as we can ascertain, the answer to that question, i.e., what caused the ban originated with the
@Belgium government and its TV channel — after the Republicans Overseas group (
@ROverseasFrance, to which I belong) complained in a No Pasarán post about
@RTBF's total lack of neutrality and objectivity.
I am hoping you can do something about this, Elon, or at least bring it to the public's attention.
Best regards,
@ErikSvane
@nopasa-rán
@Paris, France
More details at No Pasarán's sister website, “Le Monde Watch”
• Google: It Is Time to Restore a Blog — and its 14,000 Posts —
That You Have Harbored Without Problems for Over Two Decades
lemondewatch.blogspot.com/20…
• The Blog "No Pasarán" Has Been Locked and Removed;
Google: Put an End to the Censorship
[also, details about the
@RTBF ambush]
lemondewatch.blogspot.com/20…
• IT’S A CLASSIC BLOG AND
GOOGLE NEEDS TO FIX THIS
instapundit.com/722458/
• FYI, an example of my dispassionate writing
can still be found at the American Thinker
americanthinker.com/articles…