Three diaries for Linfar.  This is a wonderful statement of support.

Maybe comparing Obama supporters to Hitler tipped the balance against him/her.  I dunno, but whenever you include Hitler in today's political discourse, you don't seek to have an actual discussion, just inflame.

Excuse my ignorance, but can't people that are banned, simply log back in under a new account?

got killed and their corpses thrown in the Atlantic from Argentinian AF planes.

That's a little bit more, shall we say, involved than being banned from a blog, no?

If those who are banned want to be on line, they can start their own blog.  If enough people like it, they will attract a lot of reader and they can set their own rules about what will go on the blog.

The Supreme Court has always held that newspapers publishers have the constitutional right to decide what to publish, whether that's news, letters from readers, ads or opinion pieces. The same logic applies to blogs.

Todd's quote:

With all the flame wars and Democrat on Democrat attacks, yes, we've gotten harder on diarists who attack, accuse, etc. If you'd like to send me some of the usernames of the folks you think were unfairly banned I'll take a look. You know what crap some Hillary supporters are writing about Barack on this site? It's disgusting and has no place on a Democratic blog, know what I mean?

From the guidelines:

Candidates and politicians are fair game (but that doesn't mean you can use inflammatory language against candidates).

Would "the crap some Hillary Supports are writing about Barack" be considered inflamatory?

Would the fact that the word crap was used infer that it was inflamatory?

Just going with the guidelines here.

Give it up.  The trolls are gone.  Honestly, you're better off without them, they were making Clinton and mydd look bad.

This discourse on this site was, well, rough for the past couple of months.  It seems to have calmed down a little bit over the past couple of days.  I was not aware of a purge of any sort, but having seen some of the outrageous responses to basically reasonable posts, I cannot say I am surprised or all that saddened.  

The vitriol demeans the entire discussion.  And the poster who pointed out that blogs are controlled and therefore not subject to First Amendment protections is correct.  I will defend anyone's right to say just about anything, but the hatred against fellow Democrats really does have to end.  The admins drew a line in the sand apparently.

...linfar can't post diaries on myDD.com under that screenname anymore.

I spot a difference!

Also, there's no violation of the first amendment here.

I'm new here.

I'm a refugee from The Big Orange in the Sky.  I left voluntarily in an effort to keep my self-respect intact.  As a Clinton supporter, I became increasingly unwilling to allow myself to be vilified even though I never leveled personal attacks on other posters.

I do believe it is possible to have a vigorous and even humorous debate with Democrats on the other side of the room and I think we can do it without calling each other names.

Obama supporters are my friends and allies, as long as they don't use invective against me or my candidate:  ie. Shillary, win at any cost, liar, corporate shill, yada, yada, yada.  

It isn't that hard to be firm in one's beliefs and courteous at the same time.

I thought Linfar's typical white person diary was over the top in its sentiment, but I did not think it was bannable. I don't mind debating what seems to be a non trollworthy but disaagreeable position. And what I dislike more is when diaries of banned people   disappear. If someone is clogging up the diary spaace, I wou;ld rather see a "chill out" slowdown on posting set by the admins.

Oh, I see the game now...post something deliberately controversial, then antagonize everyone who disagrees with you.

Universal, is that you?!?

And now for Constitutional Law 101

The First Amendment reads:

"CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."  (emphasis added).

MyDD isn't Congress.

I hope this helps.

Hypocritical arrogance in the manner of BO. He says he is the candidate of transparency -- that is the most laughable thing I've ever heard. He is a duplicitous and secretive and uses censorship with the same audacity of George Bush. That any progressive supports him is astounding to me, that so many of you do is frightening.

He'll never be elected because arrogant elitism doesn't reflect the America loving values of the labor wing of the Democratic party and many of us would prefer to endure 4 years of McCain then support a man who has been a 20 year member of an anti-American, anti-Semitic and racist church anywhere near the White House.

Rather than trying to win the nomination by censoring opposing opinion and denying votes in key electoral states, why not try to win the old fashioned way -- by appealing to voters?

another bites the dust!!

what a shame.

This is a private blog. It is not a public space. It is privately owned. It has its own rules, its own guidelines, that the site owner/s have every right to enforce. This is someone's digital home, that we have been kindly invited into.

"Censorship" is when government entities impede our right to speak. Even then, public places have etiquette and laws. That's why "incitement to riot" and "disturbing the peace" are considered crimes.

I feel damn lucky that the site owners let me post here, particularly because I do get heated up, and disagree with the site owner/s in some fundamental ways. But they are tough, they can take it, and they have class. It doesn't mean that they'll tolerate behavior that brings down the rep of the blog.

Carry on, and thanks for the horsebrutality-- er--hospitality.

The fact is, they wouldn't have been banned if you all hadn't kept recommending their inflammatory diaries.  The fact that Universal kept getting on the rec list with his filth was probably what moved the admins to finally do something.

I received a warning and  a temporary suspension for calling a Democratic governor from west a "fat idiot". Don't you think it is lot better than being called a "Judas"? Would I get a suspension if I called him "Judas"? LOL