Censorship
Boing Boing has been described as an "outspoken critic of censorship elsewhere" yet has been accused of practicing forms of censorship itself. For example the act of "disemvoweling" was popularized by the site—literally stripping out the vowels of any comment a moderator had taken exception to. More recently it has been accused of dropping comments completely; for example, dropping the first 8 or 9 comments in a software piracy related article.
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Famous quotes containing the word censorship:
“The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books—with one hand.”
—Robin Morgan (b. 1941)
“... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or books containing lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.”
—Robin Morgan (b. 1941)