censorship by the powers.

well, that was an interesting experience.

just a few hours ago, I took the time to comment on an article posted at http://grouchygeek.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/02/01/yahoo-needs-microsofts-help/ on the effects of the MS purchase of Yahoo.

I took my time to comment not on the effects of the advertising world, or on the many millions of users who have @yahoo.com accounts who will suddenly find them selves with Microsoft Live accounts… I took my time, and just a few short paragraphs to talk about the severe effect this will have on the Open Source Web Application world that Yahoo has been actually very positive in supporting. Yahoo of course wants to make money. They are a publicly traded company. I can not blame them for wanting to maximize the return on their investor dollars. That is, fortunately, or not, the way the cookie crumbles…

What I have a problem with is the secondary effects this capitalistic endeavour.

Yahoo supports a wide range of Open Source Products and projects.
A number, not all, but some, are in direct competition with various Products that Microsoft carry as principal name brand flag carriers.

Exchange is one of those names.

In the CNN article that I listed above, earlier this evening I commented on the news article (from a different computer unfortunately) about the secondary effects of the MS purchase of Yahoo. Not naming anything in specific, I commented on the effects MS might have on this projects. In how that MS buying Yahoo, that a number of these projects will be squished. Destroyed. Removed from the world of corporate software.

Again, I never named any specific projects, or pieces of software. I was just commenting on the effects this purchase will have beyond the wildly discussed, and often commented on nature of the acquisition.

Microsoft of course wants the huge number of users that Yahoo has under its domain name.

My self included, along with MILLIONS of others, are ripe for the plucking as Yahoo has not done a good job in the last few years of becoming a highly profitable company. They have betrayed their corporate promise of being super profitable, and wealth generating for their stock holders… But, they do have *Many* Eye Balls for sale.

MS wants these eye balls, and they want the corporate customers who pay Yahoo for eyeball time. Its one of the few areas that Google has been trumping MS on. And MS, to their credit, understands that computing in the future… is in the cloud.

But thats another discussion for every other blog on the planet… This one is about me.

I’m increasingly, beyond the obvious nausea, annoyed, frustrated, pissed off, and furious at the Mass Media.
As much as I am not a fan of Hillary Clinton, I’m angry at how they have treated the idocy of Bill Clinton.
I am agast at the ignorance they play at when discussing the War in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I am stunned by the lack of any conscious reason the show when our civil liberties are threatened by anyone who rules us.

And now, they’ve censored my comment.

*man* I wish I had copied my self on the comment at this point, instead of just hitting submit blindly.

As I stated earlier, I commented on a cnn article.
I did this from a friends house, where I lacked any backup, or any easy way of saving my comment to a personal space.
30 minutes later, I return home, and hit the same news site, and find that my comment is missing.
Why? Who knows.
All I know is that I commented something that directly challenged the logic and integrity of the entire purchase offer of Yahoo by MS, and… Now that challenge is missing from CNN’s website….

I will take this entire post, and copy it over to the same CNN posting comment section, and see if they comment that as well.

I implore the editor who removed my comment, to restore it to the comment section of that article, as it is nothing but a comment. And nothing more.

I have to laugh though, at the cognitive dissonance of the situation.
CNN offers up comments.
CNN censors comments.
CNN prentends to be a “web 2.0″ environment, encouraging the comments from the audience.
CNN censors the comments prensented from the audience, even though they are presenting the web 2.0 ideal on the same page.

When you say the dialog is shaped by the audience.
Actually let them shape it.
Don’t shape it your selves.

EDIT: 45 minutes later….
CNN seems to have restored my comment, even in its late night poorly written state.
I hope it stays there.