19 June 2020

Online Censorship is Nothing New!

Back in 2005, in the early days of blogging, I started a blog called The New Crusade.

 I was trying to decide which platform to use. I played around with Angelfire and Lycos Tripod as well as Blogger. It seems I also tried out something called weblogpage, because on 26 September 2005, I posted the following:
Dhimmitude at Work!
I spent several days working on my new blog at weblogpage, only to be dumped because it was "too offensive". I had hoped to transfer the material here, but the site was taken down before I could.
I would guess it was the header describing the blog! Emphasis supplied:

A Blog dedicated to the promotion of the Traditional Roman Catholic Faith in union with HH Benedict XVI, to the preservation of our Traditional Græco-Roman Catholic Civilisation and to the New Crusade against Islam. This Blog is under the Patronage of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Christ our King and His Holy Mother, our Queen and of Santiago Matamoros (St James the Moor-slayer) and the Crusader King, St Louis IX of France.

So, my much more recent run ins with Facebook are nothing new. I'm just glad I chose Blogger for the platform. I posted on The New Crusade almost daily for three years and intermittently for a few more. Neither on The New Crusade nor on Musings of an Old Curmudgeon have I ever had a problem with censorship and, unlike some of the ones I played with, it's still around and doesn't look to be going any where.

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