Regarding the opinion piece by Jim Barber, mentioned yesterday by David Gerard:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/stand-and-...
I find it interesting that some 18 hours after Gerard's notification (and my posting a comment on The Australian's page), still not a single comment has been approved for publication. I wonder why that is? Is there some official policy within the "pro-Free Culture" movement that mandates suppression of critical viewpoints of the movement?
On 13 October 2010 14:42, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:
I find it interesting that some 18 hours after Gerard's notification (and my posting a comment on The Australian's page), still not a single comment has been approved for publication. I wonder why that is? Is there some official policy within the "pro-Free Culture" movement that mandates suppression of critical viewpoints of the movement?
The answer obviously implied by your phrasing of your question is indeed the correct one: it's because Wikimedia controls Rupert Murdoch and News International as well as all those other newspapers. It couldn't possibly be that you're just a dick. After all, my comment wasn't published either.
- d.
On 13 October 2010 14:42, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:
I find it interesting that some 18 hours after Gerard's notification (and my posting a comment on The Australian's page), still not a single comment has been approved for publication. I wonder why that is? Is there some official policy within the "pro-Free Culture" movement that mandates suppression of critical viewpoints of the movement?
I doubt that the "pro-Free Culture" movement controls the comments section of the website of a major Australian newspaper! (If it did, they might have posted some praise of their own rather than just leaving a blank void.)
The most recent of the editorial articles in the HE section to have any comments at *all*, good or bad, is from 29th September - there have been ten posted since then. I suspect the site operators are just not very responsive at approving them...
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