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[ NNSquad ] After Hugo Awards uproar, Ustream apparently censors all related comments on their associated blog posting
After Hugo Awards uproar, Ustream apparently censors all related comments on their associated blog posting http://j.mp/RhUiS1 (This message on Google+) - - - After Ustream provided their explanation and apology yesterday for the automated content monitoring shutdown of the Hugo Awards stream, their posting received a large number of comments from persons unhappy with Ustream's actions and positions on this issue. All comments on that posting have now vanished, and no new comments are being accepted. This appears to have occurred only to that posting at least recently -- all other Ustream postings that I spot-checked still have comments enabled and visible. It is of course the right of every blog operator to decide if they wish to accept comments on their blog or not. And I also strongly support the right of blog operators to moderate their streams to remove obscene, inappropriate, or off-topic comments. Such moderation is not censorship! But when all the comments for one specific controversial posting of this sort vanish overnight -- and most of the ones I saw were completely polite (though many were upset and angry), the situation reeks of genuine censorship, absent some sort of very odd technical problem. http://j.mp/RhrLMq (Ustream) An explanation from Ustream would seem entirely in order. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad