as some of you may have noticed, (and even some of you have actually cared,) the queen's attention has been directed to life outside of late, and so I have been unable to post and/or read entries on a regular basis.
so last night at work, during some frenzied intermittent moments, I was able to catch up on some of the happenings in the j-land community recently. I was saddened to see that Dan Wheeler's journal had been visited by the aol censor of doom, who waved his magic wand willy nilly over the place and left the place a mess of red x boxes...(dan's creativity can be followed - here- thankfully.)
nice going aol.
your stupidity, unprofessionalism and blatent disregard for journals of substance and creativity once again, continue to amaze me.
Yet, I was even more pleased and proud of all of my shimmering knights and ladies namely - armandt, remo, pattyboy, odinemonet, slo, vivvie - and
Pardon the Interruption
Random Thoughts of a Domestic Diva
Screamin' Remo
Ellipsis
Movin' On
The Daily Snooze
Thoughts on my life, and other mindless chatter
Sorting the pieces
My Journey To Life
Warehouse of Useless Knowledge
Am I There Yet?
A Ticket To Ride
The Little Things
These are the Days of our Lives...
Disobeying the rules of convention (private)
Thoughts and Musings
The little things
Confession of an Ordinary Mind.
My Life....Rated R....
My thoughts on my life with the boys and my one little princess, 2 cockatiels, 10 fish and 1 cat...
The Sullenbode
Life Or Something Like It.
My warped mind
Succulent Wisdom!
just to name a few - who bravely stood up and fought the Dragon of Doom via their thoughts and posts for truth, justice and the journal way...
And so, with the time contraints of work, I wanted to show my discontent and solidarity to the cause by at least linking up hands with the others via my last post (courtesy of armandt).
"I am so surprised you played follow the leader. You are the leader.
I'm not too up for ratings systems. I am up for customer service and for AOL being a leader in that. I'm thinkin' the Notify AOL button is what should be censored,myself. I hate tattle-tales,and apparently someone who pushed that button carried some weight.
Wheeler's journal goes on, uncensored. Just not here. AOL's loss."
love you,
~~Mumsy
Comment from cyberdancer1008 - 9/6/04 3:41 PM
(succulent results of censorship wisdom, btw, mumsy..)
Perhaps playing follow the leader might be unoriginal, Mumsy, but this queen is secure in her position and feels sometimes it is more important to be heard in one long, loud, clear, voice when dealing with imbeciles who delight in pushing the proverbial "big red button" solely for their own amusement.
(If it makes you feel better Mumsy, you can consider this an open post of MY customer DISsatisfation with the powers that be.)
It is obvious that they are still clueless as to what is really going on in J-land...and even more obvious and amazing that they think they know what they are promoting, when, in fact, they really don't.
If you ask me, it feels curiously close to catholic school again - where demerits and suspensions are given out for bubble gum chewing and shirt tales hanging out - yet all the while little boys and girls are being molested behind closed doors (ie: via chatrooms and IM's) don't believe me? go take a stroll through the chatroom community...
Hey, aol censors - i have a suggestion - how about going after the real, not imaginary problems for once...
Oh but wait a minute - that might actually mean you would have to do we loyal and paying customers a real community service....
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Nobody tells it like you Queen Flo!
Love ya,
Connie
The last time I tried to discuss something with "customer disservice" I ended up on hold (on my cell, of course) for 35 minutes, only to be shuttled to someone (directly from AOL cust. svc) from Ancestry.com, who wouldn't transfer me back to C.S. As for the censorship issues, I think they could better spend their time monitoring the snerts in AOL chatrooms..plenty of offensive content there!
The inconsistency of the censorship bothers me, too. It is probably going to get uglier before it gets better, but at least we aren't going down quietly!
It's not about playing follow the leader. It's about standing up for what is Right.
It's that kind of thinking that causes people to play Appeasement Politics which gets nothing but oppression. I could care less if people fall in with what I have to say or not, but playing "follow the leader" (the military way) is what won us our Rights in the first place. If someone doesn't like it, they're free to live where Freedom and Rights have never been on the table.
Mumsy might be "so surprised that you played follow the leader," but I'm utterly shocked that Mums apparently doesn't care to stand up for Freedom of Speech.
Missed you! Great soapboxing, as always. ;-) -B
I understand the power of petition. I just couldn't petition for a rating system because I find that censorship as well. I also didn't see the connection with the foreign languages used at the tail end of Armandt's template and thought that it diffused and inflamed the argument.
It's actually fairly simple. The foreign language remarks each say "ratings system" in different languages. That's there for those who can not or /choose not/ to comprehend the English language and what we are proposing.
Check the header of my journal... I'll "break it down in French" anytime...
~ Armand
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That's what i need on my Glow~
anothre button that passes thru
some kind of 'Rater' whom i haven't met
or heard from...trot the fox on that
idea. More lata, schtay tuned
You know, now that this has kind of blown over [sadly], I'm thinking that we should have done some sort of petition or emailing project, because I somehow doubt that the Gods at AOL really read all our journals or care what we write here, so long as it doesn't contain objectionable material, that is. What WOULD probably get their attention is if we all banded together and overloaded their various inboxes with our written concerns and requests for change. Should this ever happen again, perhaps we should work on making that happen?
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