Fire on teh interweb
2 July 2008 by paulgormanThis week’s big internet kerfuffle sparked by BoingBoing is already dying down, but I’ve been entertained enough by the MetaFilter thread (already at +1200 comments) to point it out.
The short version is that, at some point in the last year, one or more BoingBoing employees (possibly Xeni) deleted all posts even mentioning sex writer and internet personality Violet Blue [NSFW]. This week, someone noticed that VB had been excised. BoingBoing offered no explanation, apology, or even—initially—acknowledgment of their actions.
Seeing as BoingBoing has campaigned for corporate transparency and against censorship, charges of hypocrisy were leveled. BoingBoing moderator Teresa Nielsen Hayden (of Making Light) was taken to task for “disemvoweling” comments critical of BoingBoing.
No one outside of BoingBoing (including Violet Blue) has any idea what caused the “unpublishing”.
