There has been a disturbing trend over the past few weeks in the U.S.: when you hold a strong, alternative position to Democrats, be prepared to be shouted down or silenced.
Such has been the case on Blogger and Twitter.
First, on Blogger, certain Republican blogs, including Virginia’s own SWAC Girl and Contemporary Conservative were identified as “Spam Blogs” by Obama supporters to Google. This caused the algorithm to automatically shut these blogs down for a period of time before Google finally realized what was going on and corrected the problem. However, as Jason writes in June, we see that this tactic is nothing new for Obama supporters.
Second, on the new “#dontgo” Twitter conversation, which was created to advocate for Congress to return to work on an energy solution for the country instead of going home on vacation, apparently several Democrats are trying to stifle the conversation. Here’s an example of what’s being said:
Sinfonian: Apparently we normal-thinking people can Twitter bomb the right-wing morons by putting #dontgo in our Twitters.
They haven’t been successful yet, but you can certainly see on the stream that they’re trying.
So this is what Democrats have come to? Instead of discussing the issues, seek petty technological alternatives to stifle the debate?
Combine this with the recent past actions of Democrats, I think it’s pretty clear that they think the first amendment only applies to them.
