Re: Censorship

Hi:

I must object to the clear censorship of uploaded comments onto the  
Health IT Buzz Blog. This blog does not behave like a blog at all-- 
executive control over submissions to be published has been installed  
into this site's functionality. The end result is that the comments  
submitted by its users (namely, me) into the field labeled Leave a  
Reply that were intended to be immediately viewed by the public, are  
not immediately published; these comments are then selectively  
published a week or more later.

The proof of this behavior is the fact that on the evening of January  
30 I personally submitted multiple accounts of critique and criticism  
onto this site; however, on February 4 these comments had still not  
been published. However, on February 8, two of the lesser critical  
comments that I submitted had been published.

Currently, the more scathing and antiauthoritarian replies to the  
Health IT Buzz Blog have still not been published. Therefore, this  
practice of selective publishing cannot be attributed to random  
mistake. The functionality of the Health IT Buzz Blog clearly  
indicates the intentional utility coded into its behavior: The ability  
to selectively publish by the admin. This behavior cannot accurately  
be labeled in any way other than "censorship".

Greg Austin
[email protected]
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