In what must be an all-time low for the blogosphere, a diarist at DK felt forced to drop one of Project Censored’s top 25 stories from the list.
In other words, the diarist not only helped censor the story, but helped censor the story about the inadequate reportage thereof.
Can things get any nuttier???
I’ll give you one guess as to the topic.
Yep, 9/11. Never mind that there are legitimate questions to be had. It’s considered a “conspiracy theory” and therefore has no place in DK discourse.
I think that’s frankly insane. The good thing about a site with so many people on it is that any faulty logic regarding such can be dissected and debated at great length in the comments.
There are a bunch of theories based on faulty data, and I deplore them as much as the next person. But when you censor a story which essentially says, a member of the Japanese parliament questioned the official story – you’re censoring not just 9/11 conspiracy theories, but any discussion of why such theories exist. In fact, you’re giving credence to the conspiracists, because if there’s nothing to hide, why the media silence on the issue?
I find it equally distressing when nutty people spout off things that they assume are facts, which are NOT facts, about 9/11. But please, PLEASE, can we someday have a sane, reasoned, factual conversation about these events?
Conspiracy theories are not the enemy. CENSORSHIP of discussions IS.
