Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform

[Pathfinder]

I just ran across this here : http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/06/29/google-shuts-down-anti-obama-sites-its-blogger-platform

MB's blog is still up, so either this is hooey or they just haven't gotten around to him as yet. Sadly, I would not put it past the little fascists at google to do something like this, they already fix the search results and are in bed with the commies in China and other tyrants around the world.

By Warner Todd Huston | June 29, 2008 - 15:22 ET

It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is effectively squelched. Thus far, Google has terminated the access by blog owners to 7 such sites and the list may be growing. Boy, it must be nice for Barack Obama to have an ally powerful enough to silence his opponents like that!

It isn't just conservative sites that Google's Blogger platform is eliminating. For instance, www.comealongway.blogspot.com has been frozen and this one is a Hillary supporting site. The operator of Come a Long Way has a mirror site off the Blogspot platform and has today posted this notice:

    I used to have a happy internet home on Blogger: www.comealongway.blogspot.com. Then on Wednesday night, June 25, I received the following e-mail:

    Dear Blogger user,

    This is a message from the Blogger team.

    Your blog, at http://comealongway.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog.

    Sincerely,

    The Blogger Team

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.

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

[Frosty]

  Imagine that as you can see I am shocked that the lefties would do such a thing. Being an independent, it is with complete hope that all of the crap they pull will come back to bite them in the arss aka: bad karma. It's a shame that our political system has degenerated to the point of who has the most money can buy their spot in the White House and who can sling the most mud to get the vote. I believe if you voted, your vote counts, then tally them all up and whom ever has the most wins none of this super delegat crap or electorial college bunk. By the way I'm anti - barack hussein obama in a big way - hope they don't shut down this site

[Pathfinder]

I hesitated, but thought I would post right away as I had a couple of other things to say.

1. The sites are mostly pro-Hitlery sites, so here it is hard to know who to root for!   
2. The sites are still operational but cannot have new posts added
3. Hey, TAB! Is this an appropriate exercise of a company owner's rights??   

Sorry, I feel a little better now.

[ericire12]

Fraged.

[Hazcat]

Imagine that as you can see I am shocked that the lefties would do such a thing. Being an independent, it is with complete hope that all of the crap they pull will come back to bite them in the arss aka: bad karma. It's a shame that our political system has degenerated to the point of who has the most money can buy their spot in the White House and who can sling the most mud to get the vote. I believe if you voted, your vote counts, then tally them all up and whom ever has the most wins none of this super delegat crap or electorial college bunk. By the way I'm anti - barack hussein obama in a big way - hope they don't shut down this site

Frosty,

If you do away with the electoral college you are letting the Northeast and California elect all national positions and by extension the SCOTUS.  Want that?

[Sponsor]

[Frosty]

I know I did the usual of engaging mouth (in this case the keyboard and didn't proof read) before brain without thinking of the consquences as I sometimes do.    Gotta stop that

[twyacht]

Manipulate the WWW, imagine that. Political influence on the next platform of the information highway?

Although I agree doing away with the electoral college would be bad, my little state of NC would go by the wayside to FL, CA, most of the northeast, WA, OR,

I hesitated, but thought I would post right away as I had a couple of other things to say.

1. The sites are mostly pro-Hitlery sites, so here it is hard to know who to root for!   
2. The sites are still operational but cannot have new posts added
3. Hey, TAB! Is this an appropriate exercise of a company owner's rights??   

Sorry, I feel a little better now.

Pathfinder summed it up perfectly,...Politics as usual and the citizenry suffers.

"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
Mark Twain (1866)

[Hazcat]

Pelosi wants to reinstate the 'fairness doctrine" and I'm sure she will want to extend it to the internet.

You know how the left opperates, they either shout em down or shut em down cause their ideas can't stand up in a debate.

[tombogan03884]

The founding fathers were members of "committees of correspondence" We might need to return to that type thing.

[BigSaucy]

If you do away with the electoral college you are letting the Northeast and California elect all national positions and by extension the SCOTUS.  Want that?

Good point Haz and as someone who has lived in the Northeast my whole life, I can say that I don't want my leftist neighbors deciding your futures too.