NEO EXPRESS SHUT DOWN BY OBAMA SUPPORTERS UPDATE: Add Thunder Road, Lock and Load

GOOGLE SHUTS DOWN ANTI-OBAMA SITES. Google shuts down another site:

Neo NeoCon wrote me,

My apologies to NE readers; Apparently a wave of Obama supporters has “flagged” the Neocon Express as a “spam” sight and have successfully shut us down until Google’s Blogger programmers can confirm that we are not a spam site. The process apparently takes about 48 hours.

Apparently, this is a glitch in the ‘Blogger’ system which allows anyone on the net to “flag” any Blogger site as a spam site. With enough “flags” they can shut down a site until Google manually inspects the site to confirm it’s a legitimate blog and not automated spam. Unfortunately, Obama supporters have been abusing this method which was designed to filter out real net spammers, and have been systematically flagging high profile “anti-Obama” blogs on the vast ‘Blogger’ system as “spam” in order to shut down debate.

I trust that Google will have us up and running in 48 hours as their e-mail to me stated. Again, My apologies; apparently it’s just part of the election “war” that is going on, especially on the internet, so I won’t take it personally. I do think it’s a bad reflection on Obama supporters.

Keep my fingers crossed on Typepad.

UPDATE: Thunder Road is down. Just got this:

Seems someone is scared of the truth as I found this when I went to post this morning.

This blog has been locked due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations. You may not publish new posts until your blog is reviewed and unlocked.

This blog will be deleted within 20 days unless you request a review.

Its the same message Concrete Bob received and Rosemary posted for him.

This is bullshit as it appears that someone does not approve of the idea of free speech especially when the speech doesn't conform to their ideas. 

I'm always asked: "Why are the milblogs important?"  Well we can see the reason why. We get the message out!  We can not allow others to dictate the form or content of the message.  The message must always be the truth, whether they want to hear it or not. 

Regardless of the outcome with Google's review, The Thunder Run is now in the process of purchasing a domain and finding seperate hosting services...I suggest anyone else that uses Blogger to do the same, its something I should have done a long time ago.

With John Donovan's permission I will be posting most of my stuff at Castle Argghhh! until further notice.

David M

Editor: The Thunder Run

UPDATE: Another blog flagged. Ed over at Lock and Load has been flagged.

FYI, It looks like I've been tagged as a spam blog.  A few days ago I
deleted and marked as spam two "invitations" on my  Haloscan comments
area by "Omar" to visit Ikhwnweb .  (muslim brotherhood)

I can only guess Omar came back and found his invitations deleted and
then flagged me as a spammer.  I've responded to Blogger who claims they
will review Lock and Load and get back within two days.

UPDATE: Bloggasm » Who’s responsible for shutting down a number of anti-Obama Blogspot accounts?

Holy shia! The New York Times noticed (well their bits blog did). They are blaming it on Hillary, they got it wrong again. Every blog that I know was not a pro-Hillary blog. The New York in-the-tank-Obama Times.

Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers hat tip Mitchell Langbert

The bloggers in question, most of them supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and all of them opposed to Senator Obama, received a notice from Google last week saying that their sites had been identified as potential “spam” blogs. “You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog,” the Google e-mail read.

Many of the bloggers were affiliated with JustSayNoDeal.com, a Web site that opposes Senator Obama. They include http://bluelyon.blogspot.com, http://comealongway.blogspot.com, http://hillaryorbust.blogspot.com and http://mccaindemocrats.blogspot.com.

In an article that appeared on Bloggasm.com, the reporter Simon Owens spoke with some of the affected bloggers, who said they believed that Google had fallen prey to a campaign by activists supporting Senator Obama. According to the bloggers, the Obama supporters had clicked on a “flag” on the anti-Obama blogs alerting Google that they were spam.

If so, that would be an embarrassment for Google. On its Web page explaining the “flag” feature, Google says that “it can’t be manipulated by angry mobs. Political dissent? Incendiary opinions? Just plain crazy? Bring it on.”

And another! >Gayle Miller of Savkobabe.blogspot.com

 

UPFATE: Blog Shutdowns: Spam Attack from IPs Assigned to barackobama.com (by NancyA at No Quarter)

The other day Sitemeter attacked Internet Explorer and shut down quite a few sites. Anyone with a sitemeter, in other words, all of us

 

Today, there is another report on Blog Shutdowns from Death By A 1000 Papercuts. Here is what they had to say:
 

 

“At least one of the attacks in the latest wave of blog shutdowns this past week came from IPs assigned to barackobama.com.” This leaves us with an unanswered question. Who or what caused the “malfunction” in Sitemeter?

Comments

[WRpeach]

Seems like the Obama supporters have learned a trick from CAIR in trying to shut down free speech and keep the truth hidden. This tact is one example of what they are all about, control. If you aren’t on the Obama bus, these power hungry stooges will try to close the avenues to truth. And if the next Congress remains in the clutches of the Democrats, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer, Senators Durbin, Kerry and Feinstein will have a good chance of restoring the content regulation of the airwaves with the Fairness Doctrine. The Neocon Express is always a good read; hope its back up quickly.

[Mike]

NeoCon Express is seemingly not the only blog shut down by Google following "flagging" by Obama supporters. Mine was flagged at 10:54PM this evening. It would be interesting to have a place for those of us who have been flagged as "spam blogs" by Google, at the behest of the Obamamaniacs, to compare our SiteMeter and other logging software to see if we could identify the culprit.

[2T3MzooK]

Might I suggest that all anti-Obama blogs send a preemptive email to Google warning them that the blog might be subject to malicious "spam"-reporting, and to investigate any complainant FIRST.

[2T3MzooK]

And, of course, in the preemptive message mention the REASON why the blog might be targeted.

[horselady]

Anything that Google owns is subject to free speech infringement. I had an account at Photobucket
which contained many photos about Islam. All was fine until Google bought Photobucket, then all of a
sudden one day, without warning, they banned my account and refused to tell me why. I know it was because of the anti-Islam nature of the photos, even though most of them were real photos of real
people, not some photoshopped stuff.

Even worse, they refused to allow me access to retrieve any of the photos, which numbered over 2000. They were very nasty and told me to get a court order if I wanted the photos. I didn't because I was able to find about 75% of them from the original sources, but some are lost forever.

AS far as blogs go, I have my very anti-Islam blog with WordPress and have had no problems yet.
I'd never put it on Blogger because Google owns it.

You can see it here. I doubt it would pass Bloggers scrutiny.

http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/about/

[goat]

Blogger sign in has a post up saying this is a glitch and they are working to correct it. Its not some conspiracy. I blog on blogger and it was at the top of their sign in page today.

[Vince]

No one said it was a conspiracy (at least by Google)... what everyone has said is that Obama people are using a flaw in Google's mechanisms to shut down Anti-Obama sites.. at least temporarily.

[2T3MzooK]

Yay! Here's one case where something really IS a conspiracy! But we can conspire to thwart it.

[Eldress]

Hmmm seems like Facebook does the same thing if they don't like something you write . I was refused my right to freedom of speech because I wrote about Obama supporter Oprah who's long time male companion Stedman is a 33 degree freemason . A group known to be diabolically satanic . The freemasons produced a segment on the History channel denying occult involment . You wrestle not against flesh and blood but evil power in high places . Get to know a much higher power your gonna need Him. Oh ! and by the way Islam does not have protection from devils so they are easily driven by them . Learn about spiritual warfare in politics and shield yourselves from the evil .