Banned From Posting Comments on the Daily Kos
I lasted less than a week. It wasn’t because I wanted it to end, but rather the difference of opinion isn’t welcomed by the left. Well what did I expect? Honestly, I wasn’t sure. I knew it was a hotbed for radical left wing thought, but hey, sometimes you never know how something’s going to go until you give something a try. So, I signed up for the Daily Kos website 6 days ago and thought I’d see how welcome I’d be.
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the Daily Kos is a left wing blog that is quite popular. So after my 24 hour waiting period, I was able to post comments. My first valuable discussion came on a post titled “Conservatives Speak Out on Gay Marriage.” Now I disagree with the premise that we should legalize gay marriage on several grounds, and I politely shared my thoughts. There were soon alot of responses to my post. I tried to keep up, answering mainly those who had something worthwhile to say, however I couldn’t answer them all during my lunch. But it was a good discussion, and I felt like for the most part it went better than I had thought.
Then today I posted again in response to “Pew Poll: People Have Confidence In Obama, Not Republicans.” Again I had a good discussion with mainly one person who disagreed with me, and then finally gave up. Now I want to point out that I was quite civil in all of my exchanges. Though I was accused of much, you can read my comments (in PDF form or on the Daily Kos) and see for yourself. Btw, they are quite entertaining to read.
And this evening, I logged in again and found I was unable to post comments. I did some research and found out that I had been banned by what I believe is the Kos community. I do wonder though, as only one of my comments (to my knowledge) were hid, and I believe that is a big part of being banned. Either way, I’ve contacted the site to find out for sure and haven’t heard back yet.
So after 2 days of conservative thought, they couldn’t take it anymore. Maybe now they can sympathize with Mark Levin.
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Well, join the club. I was banned from Kos and several other leftist blogs during the campaign. My comments were always civil; but civility is not the intent of these blogs; they’re all about totalitarian control of speech. “Progressives?” Nope. Fascists? Yep. One blog, mydd, banned me for including one conservative source in a list of sources at the end of a comment, so that readers would determine why I wrote what I did. The response from the authoritarian blog fuhrer, Totalitarian Twit Todd Beeton: “If you read Powerline, you don’t belong here.”
How blatantly fascist of him.
I rejected his argument vociferously and passionately, telling him that it was not his right to dictate what I read.
But he demanded I check the digital acknowledgement of his “warning.” I refused. So, I continue to be “banned.”
Shocking. Disgusting. I was a progressive until I realized these people are nothing but fascists. Now, I’m an independent. I continue to read what I want to read. Todd Beeton at mydd, and Markos Moulitsas and his merry band of Stalinist Kossacks can go #@$% themselves. I want no part of them.
And, now, I do sympathize with Mark Levin.
I have been banned to, from Free Republic and Hannity.com for posting what I felt were reasonable comments that disagreed with opinions there. So, what’s your point? Most websites control content. This is not unique to dailykos?
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