Who Stole Free Speech Online

Well I will be darned. I always read over at http://topix.com/ at the online messageboards they have.

I love to see people interact over there. They have approx. 360,000 topics at the moment to choose from. I have been following the topic about the former Moderator Windchime from Websleuths Forum being banned. She was a Moderator on a missing person's forum till her background criminal record on child abuse was exposed. This is a subject that deserves to be talked about. How it was dealt with also deserves conversation and discussion.

So today I wander on over there to the topic and got quite a shock. The topic formerly had 1,960 posts in it. It now only shows 33 ( at the time I am writing this ). That means that over 1,950 posts went POOF. When you go to the topic in question look at the number that post should really be.

In reading the 33 posts that are still remaining it becomes obvious that The owner of Websleuths had topix.com remove all the posts by threatening who knows what if they didn't comply. She didn't like what people who posted at topix in that thread had to say about her site.

WTF???? So what, you don't like what they say so you have that whole topic pulled?

People should have freedom of speech. I can understand if there were threats made or the like. That shouldn't happen anywhere. But just because you don't like people talking bad about your site? You just gave people more to talk about now!.

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And I have no horse in this race .

Ok, ok, I like the material for my blog here.

Crybaby!

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When you are in the public eye you are gonna be talked about, both good and bad, get over it.

You gotta learn to suck it up. Put on your big girl panties.

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Who the hell wants to go see this:

The Topix page you requested was not found
If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again, or choose from our list of over 360,000 topics.

Read it here and if its not there anymore than someone POOFED it again.

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/orlando-fl/TIF13AVKQLT1C0PPS.

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Anyone have a tissue??? Boohoooooooooooooo

Stop back soon.

Blogs Of Note

There have been some blogs developed to discuss the "falling out" of different forums or it's members. Here I will be listing some interesting blogs I have found.


Beacon Hell is one such blog, and touts itself as "Exposing the underbelly of true crime"

http://beaconhell.com/b/blog/?page_id=671

Although I want to say that websleuths has had over 17,000 members, so naturally there will be some along the way that become disgruntled. Who knows how many are really still there?


There are also many splintered off forums and I will do a post on those later.

More to Come