- The first rule of menshn is you do talk about menshn. Please feel free to invite your friends, spread the word, and post about us on Facebook and Twitter. (c) Menshn, Screenshot below:
Yet, if you do talk about Menshn within Menshn – you will get banned.
Yes, I got banned. I talked about Menshn in the Menshnabout room (and before that existed, the politics ones).
Here is Menshn co-founder admitting this (because all I ever posted in Menshn were messages about Menshn, mostly critical, or pointing out that they were committing Copyright Infringement offences).
Edit: Found a cool plugin that lets me import tweets as comments, so I have pulled in the relevant conversations from twitter. Louise did not post what you see below, I used the plugin to pull them in.
Let’s use Wikipedia’s page on Censorship, which defined it thus:
Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.
In this case, the controlling body is Menshn, or to be more precise, its co-founders and staff. The speech or public communication is criticism of Menshn. Menshn admits it will block this speech. Therefore, Menshn engages in censorship. Q.E.D.
Now, would any reasonable person be able to say Censorship does not exist on Menshn? I believe the evidence speaks for itself and the evidence is damning.
@pgregg if you see a little circle with a line through it, it means we revoked your account approval.
@wirespyuk @pgregg my suggestion would be, if you hate the site, er.. don’t use it 🙂 if paul wants to post real stuff not all about site…
@LouiseMensch That account has done nothing to deserve being revoked. Unless you wish to censor critical comment. #menshn
@pgregg it may be that once an account has been blocked the isp is blocked. Certainly, we also delete trolling such as… (cont)
@LouiseMensch I invite you to explain fully, publicly, why you revoked my account. No trolling, no other users from my “isp” #menshn #censor
@LouiseMensch I invite you to explain fully, publicly, why you revoked my account. No trolling, no other users from my “isp” #menshn #censor
@pgregg …going on the site solely to complain about it. very meta-Jesus & boring for others. http://t.co/k4RNk4Pz –
@pgregg beyond that, there are normal spam filters so if your post is caught in that it won’t be seen. Otherwise, u should be visible.
@pgregg if you want to DM me // name of the non-banned accounts you think are not visible, am happy to check it out for you. Personally…
@LouiseMensch I don’t need DM. Account “pgregg” isn’t banned now – no red circle? “paulgregg” also invisible. Posts all invisible.
@pgregg OK – will check. I’m pretty sure I revoked pgregg some time back. You are welcome on site, as long as not all posts about site.
@pgregg OK, your paulgregg account now approved… would be glad to see your debate. Tell me if any problems with visibility.
The thing that stands out about this is… Why would it need manual approval? I created the account, validated the email. All should have been fully functional right after that. Maybe my “ISP” (or my US VPN tunnel) has been banned, but that wouldn’t explain why I see similar behaviour on a BT broadband connection using a wholly different email domain and username.
@pgregg that said, coming on site exclusively to complain about it is considered metaJesus trolling & gets a ban. Nobody forces anyone on!
@pgregg & for absolute clarity,v welcome to complain all you like about me as pol, that is not metajesus, nor are real users’ complaints.
@pgregg hopefully, you’ll agree I’ve fully engaged with you; don’t wish to clog my twitter feed further; you can DM or email anything else.
@LouiseMensch I have never complained/criticised you as an individual or a pol. Only pointed out #Menshn flaws and @Bozier’s attitude.
@LouiseMensch Let’s pretend this is a FOI req: 1) How many users does #Menshn have? 2) How many need to be approved? (beyond email confirm)
@pgregg well (last tweet) as you see from menshnabout room we respond to complaints daily, but coming on menshn just to metaJesus =trolling.
@pgregg it isn’t an FOI request. I have approved //PaulGregg, but if you’re saying all you want to do is complain about site, can reblock.
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