LJWorld.com political censorship?

Posted by Liberty_one June 19, 2012 at 7:44 p.m.

I typed up a post, and the filter would not let it go through. I couldn't find any reason why, so I broke down the post and posted it sentence by sentence to see which one was objectionable. Here's the sentence that the filter would not allow to be posted:

"Obama's policies haven't saved us from depression, they are pushing us into depression."

Interesting, hmm?

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Liberty_One 12 months ago

Notice that there are a lot more comments than actually appear. I posted that line and it will not show up.

Interesting.

Phoghorn 12 months ago

This comment was censored by site staff for violation of the usage agreement.

Alex Parker 12 months ago

Testing: "Obama's policies haven't saved us from depression, they are pushing us into depression."

ljwhirled 12 months ago

I bet it don't like the single quotes. SQL can be a daemon that way.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 12 months ago

Overall, it is still a pretty nice sandbox. A few cat turds. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth, before you wash your hands.

Alex Parker 12 months ago

This sounds like a glitch. I'll alert our web team. If you experience this again, please let me know.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 12 months ago

Alex, I ASSuME that it was without the quotation marks...

What is a sketchy list?

Alex Parker 12 months ago

Testing, part II: Obama's policies haven't saved us from depression, they are pushing us into depression.

deec 12 months ago

Obama's policies haven't saved us from depression, they are pushing us into depression.

deec 12 months ago

Huh. Worked fine for me. Incorrect statement, though.

snap_pop_no_crackle 12 months ago

Cabbages, knickers, it hasn't got a beak.

vertigo 12 months ago

Curious if there were links in the post.

I've noticed when my posts won't go through it's because either 1) Too many links or 2) the URLs are too long and I have to convert to tinyurl to post

grammaddy 12 months ago

Me thinks Lib_one is trying to prove the old saying, "If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth." Sneaky...

meggers 12 months ago

Perhaps it was your incorrect usage of the comma.

You can post factually incorrect statements and you can use bad grammar, however doing both in the same sentence is frowned upon. ;)

meggers 12 months ago

Here is the link to this thread:

http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/liberty_one/2012/jun/19/ljworldcom-political-censorship/

meggers 12 months ago

How strange. What browser are you using? I'm using Firefox, in case that makes a difference. I don't see why it would, but I'm not very tech savvy.

I always have problems with the mobile site (or rather, the lack of a fully functional mobile site), but on the regular site, I haven't experienced any of the problems mentioned in this thread.

Alex Parker 12 months ago

An interesting theory, but it's just not true. I've again alerted our web team to this issue and hope it is resolved soon.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 12 months ago

I think inquires should be made to Mr. Parker as to the secret existence of the "sketchy list" . Rumor has it that the secret internally maintained "sketchy list" exists at the LJWorld.com and is a list composed of certain individuals whose posts are subject to special moderation.

It is so secretly protected that if you search for the term "sketchy list" on the LJWorld.com site you get: Page unavailable We're sorry, but the requested page is currently unavailable. Please try again later. http://www2.ljworld.com/search/?q=sketchy+list&models=comments.comment

JackMcKee 12 months ago

You see any black helicopters hovering over your house?

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 12 months ago

Who?

JackMcKee 12 months ago

lol

Frankie8 12 months ago

President Obama is the best president we have had in a long time. There were cheers all around when the health care reform act was passed.
He is cool, calm, collected and rational at a time when that is needed. While it may feel good to get all giddy and jump up and down and shout, that does not solve problems but only adds to them.

RoeDapple 12 months ago

Frankie8 12 months ago

See, that went though just fine.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 12 months ago

"An interesting theory, but it's just not true" - Alex Parker

Mr. Parker, will you publicly confirm or deny the existence of the "sketchy list"?

snap_pop_no_crackle 12 months ago

You still can't mention **, can you?

snap_pop_no_crackle 12 months ago

Don't get yourself disapearededed, comrade.

Did_I_say_that 12 months ago

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 12 months ago

I think Alex Parkers silence is very telling.

autie, Is that the guy with the running shoe stores?

riverdrifter 12 months ago

"I wish Autie would start an opinion board."

vertigo 12 months ago

Wow it is those two words... I just tried myself using a different phrase with those two words together. No dice.

I think the web developer was bullied in school and was often pushed down on the play ground hence the banning of those two words used together.

meggers 12 months ago

Pushing us into depression.

vertigo 12 months ago

Megger's try this one:

Alex's sketchy list is (insert offending words) to use tinyurl.

meggers 12 months ago

Alex's sketchy list is (insert offending words) to use tinyurl.

Tee-hee....

puddleglum 12 months ago

pushing us

puddleglum 12 months ago

guess i am not on the sketchy list

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 12 months ago

Pushing us

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 12 months ago

"3 of the 4 of you are on the sketchy list"

RoeDapple 12 months ago

When pushing us is outlawed only outlaws will be pushing us.

RoeDapple 12 months ago

dammit I wanna be on the sketchy list too!

RoeDapple 12 months ago

Yeah well I'da been a too delicate flower for all that.

Good job. Mostly.

RoeDapple 12 months ago

I wuoldn't push . . . oh never mind.

8-[

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 12 months ago

They are taking the servers down until the morning to take care of some issues... Though you will still probably be on the sketchy list...

Lists, lists are evil, vile, exclusionary, persecutory.

snap_pop_no_crackle 12 months ago

Puddlegum is much too pretty to be on the sketchy list.

jonas_opines 12 months ago

pushing us

snap_pop_no_crackle 12 months ago

"Your content has been submitted for moderator approval" Guess that means I'm certainly on the sketchy list.

smitty 12 months ago

Is this newest software change produced by Mediaphormedia?

Mediapormedia software produced by the World Company: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/jun...

Mediaphormedia, which created the internationally accepted Django Web framework, released 10 employees and will phase out its commercial software operations to serve only the company’s specific internal needs.

snap_pop_no_crackle 12 months ago

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3.

smitty 12 months ago

Is this newest software change produced by Mediaphormedia?

quote from 6/14 ....... its commercial software operations to serve only the company’s specific internal needs.

classclown 12 months ago

I believe I'm being censored. I've tried 3 times to post something on the maintenance article and not 1 has gone through. Frankly I doubt anyone will read this.

Oh well

Goodbye cruel (LJ) World

snap_pop_no_crackle 12 months ago

Anybody home?

tbaker 12 months ago

Obama's policies haven't saved us from depression, they are pushing us into depression.

tbaker 12 months ago

Obama's policies haven't saved us from depression, they are pushing us into depression

tbaker 12 months ago

Still can't get it to work....interesting.

tbaker 12 months ago

Obama's policies haven't saved us from depression, they are

pushing

into depression

tbaker 12 months ago

There it goes.

classclown 12 months ago

I have not been allowed to make a post in the past 24 hours. This is a test to see if I am still being silenced.

Alex Parker 12 months ago

You are not. We are having some issues with our comment system. Even staff comments aren't showing up.

Katara 12 months ago

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Robert J. Hanlon

"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity" - Robert A. Heinlein

"Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory." —Sir Bernard Ingham

pti3 12 months ago

The ljworld hasn't covered 1)the leak of a secret chapter of the trans pacific partnership secret trade pact that creates a 'global corporate government' according to Public Citizen.2) Also darpas recent announcement of grants for nanotechnology for physiologic surveilance and control of warfighters. Links follow: Breaking ’08 Pledge, Leaked Trade Doc Shows Obama Wants to Help Corporations Avoid Regulations (Thur June 14 show of Democracy Now)

http://m.democracynow.org/stories/12863

Zach Carter: Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blackberry/p.html?id=1592593

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Larger than NAFTA?

http://www.salon.com/2012/06/14/trans_pacific_partnership_larger_than_nafta/singleton/?mobile.html

Newly Leaked TPP Investment Chapter Contains Special Rights for Corporations

http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/blog/2012/06/13/newly-leaked-tpp-investment-chapter-contains-special-rights-for-corporations/

http://educationviews.org/2012/06/19/computer-virus-for-the-brain-in-vivo-nanosensors-for-diagnostics-ivndx/

pti3 12 months ago

The Education News article that mentions the Darpa grant 'Computer virus for the brain: in vivo nanoplatforms' is found below: http://educationviews.org/2012/06/19/computer-virus-for-the-brain-in-vivo-nanosensors-for-diagnostics-ivndx/ The potential for misuse is astounding.

beatrice 12 months ago

These cries of victimhood are just ... well ... sketchy.

Time to put your big boy pants on folks, admit that sometimes the world (LJ or otherwise) doesn't always go your way and quit your whining already.

Besides, Obama DID keep us from falling into a Depression.

beatrice 12 months ago

By the way, I just "liked" my own comment. Now, how sketchy is that?

RoeDapple 12 months ago

I just liked 'em both . . .

beatrice 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Walked away? I have no idea what you are referencing. I'm right here. Do you always post when on vacation? Now that would be pathetic.

Did_I_say_that 12 months ago

Well, third time may be a charm: fourth, fifth, sixth.... tenth

Talk about being censored. I have had three disappear from this thread.

One was responding to T-_O_B, ""snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says… You still can't mention **, can you?"

Shoemaker, Marion or Sven?

DIST replied: Do you mean Marion Lynn?

LJWorld.com commenter Marion Lynn is pictured Tuesday at his home. Lynn, who has recorded about 16,000 comments online, chooses to reveal his identity because he believes it gives him credibility.">

Regular LJWorld.com commenter Marion Lynn is pictured Tuesday at his home. Lynn, who has recorded about 16,000 comments online, chooses to reveal his identity because he believes it gives him credibility. by Nick Krug

by DIST

The second was a reply to bea: "I didn't like your comment, bea; but, I liked you. Now, if Obama would just quit pooshing u$."

The third was for L_O: "L_O - It is time to rename the blog to: How I got liberals to comment that 'Obama's policies haven't saved us from depression, they are p00shing u$ into depression."'