The Censorship Project.

Or, Lies, Damned Lies and Freedom of Speech at Atheist Central

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Now, I fully respect Ray's right to censor anything and everything he likes on his blog. It is his blog, after all. But the thing is, he has a very specific list of things that he will censor, and that makes us assume that he isn't going to censor anything that does not break the rules in that list. And yet, perfectly reasonable posts occasionally seem to fail to appear...

Recently, to Ray's "going to shut down the blog" pity party, I made a joke comment. This was published. After a few hours, I realised that the theists there likely have a 0% humour value, so I posted an extensive retraction and my thoughts on the subject.

The content of this second post was civil and polite (as usual), and merely stated that I had enjoyed participating in the Evo vs Crea debate for some time for the intellectual stimulation, and had found the knowledge of those theists on Atheist Central, including the Blog master, lacking. As a result, I would be relieved to leave them to it: unlike my participation in other creationist forums, I had not learned anything new or even had to refer to a source other than memory more than twice. I also pointed out that I felt his ministry was leading people away from God, rather than to Him/Her/It. Finally, I expressed my regret that shutting down the blog would decrease the traffic to the Raytractors, and thanked Ray for leading be to them via Atheist Central, because I had found them to be a logical, witty and humorous group of people.

It hasn't shown up. I recently posted this in the same thread.

Ray, I'm curious as to why my second comment did not get through moderation. After thinking about it, I indicated that my first post, which was meant as a joke, and posted my true thoughts on the concept of you closing down this blog several hours later.

This second post contained absolutely nothing that could be considered foul language, no links, capitalised all mentions of God and was decent and civil.

I would appreciate knowing why it did not appear.

Thanking you in advance,
Qu.

I thought a good project, inspired by The Quote Mine Project, would be this: let's gather copies (preferably) or just or just provide summaries (like mine above) of those posts which don't break any of Ray's rules, but have mysteriously vanished when submitted to Ray for moderation. Jaser mentioned one in Nonmagic's "Why I did what I did and why I'm not sorry." thread, and I believe Rufus did also. Post them in the comments for this thread, so we can all see what Ray doesn't want us to!