June 13, 2020

Would the person named Yin who is trying to comment, please try again?

We have tried to put through your comments, but they are not appearing. We are worried that there's some kind of censorship happening that is not coming from us. We will look for you and make a screen shot next time we see you!

65 comments:

Andrew said...

Yang, stop cancelling Yin.
(I wonder how many commenters will make a similar joke.)

Wince said...

We are worried that there's some kind of censorship happening that is not coming from us.

Don't be Silly, unless it's...

Tarquin Yin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F’tang-F’tang-OlĂ©-Biscuitbarrel.

Mary Beth said...

Are you able to see the IP address of commenters?

Oso Negro said...

It’s that bastard Yang again!

Mark said...

You can always cut and paste if the Chinese thug communist regime is blocking comments from that prison land.

William said...

And yet Yang's comments get through without difficulty and are frequently highlighted. Perhaps with proper reforms, Yang's comments can be printed in bright red letters and given a font three times larger than all surrounding comments. This will address the historical imbalance. Previous generations heard too much from Yin, and Yin during those eras presented unfair comments.

langford peel said...

I blame Yang.

Sprezzatura said...

“We are worried that there's some kind of censorship happening that is not coming from us.“

Ha ha ha ha.

Ken B said...

The Democrats censored Yang.

Jim Gust said...

Wowsers. This could explode into an international incident.

A Voice of Reason said...

Without Yang, he has forgotten The Way to post.

Jim Gust said...

I suspect you have reached the point at which you must give up relying on blogspot or wordpress, and outsource your blog management to experts, as instapundit and the powerline blog did years ago. there will be a cost, hopefully to be offset by ad revenue from your Amazon portal.

this will give you much better control over commenters at the same time as it protects you from Chinese (or any third party) censorship.

Inga said...

Was this post a way to see how many people would bring up Yang?

Rabel said...

"I suspect you have reached the point at which you must give up relying on blogspot or wordpress..."

You new here?

Krumhorn said...

Good ‘un, Ann. But the wry humor sounds more like Meade to my ear.

- Krumhorn

walter said...

Maybe Yin was vectoring a European Virus.

stephen cooper said...

Bonaparte gulls silhouetted, waves flow bright ?

gadfly said...

Ten percent or so of my post attempts here end up with a broken Blogger "B" appearing onscreen and an instruction to refresh, followed by a warning that I may be posting twice.

Unfortunately, without instant Althouse postings, it is impossible to determine whether a post succeeded or not. I blamed the problem on my ancient 10-year-old Vaio, so I used the money gifted by the government to buy a new Ryzen 7 Asus with a 512 SSD which should never have an upload problem but it ran into the broken "B" last night.

mikee said...

I hope and try to live a life that precludes me ever being issued a visa to the Chinese mainland while the Chinese Communist Party remains in power there. So should we all.

cubanbob said...

It's one thing if AA decides to block or delete a commentator or comment. It's quite another if this is happening without her knowledge. The question is who could be doing this?

David53 said...

I'm suddenly getting Asia Dating ads on the Althouse web page. Is it racist to say that?

brylun said...

Having traveled to mainland China, my thought is not for the yin and yang joke, but the real possibility of censorship by the ChiComs. They are ruthless. Inga couldn't even contemplate being placed in a re-education camp; that's beyond her ken.

@Inga: At least 5 people in China have disappeared, gotten arrested, or been silenced after speaking out about the coronavirus

Andrew said...

Substitute Yin for Tim.
https://youtu.be/co3ygE6H7PU

John Marzan said...

Which topic was he commenting on?

Ann Althouse said...

This isn't a joke.

Someone named Yin wrote something that might be triggering censorship that might be rigged into Blogger to take out. More than once it was in the pending comments and was set like all the other comments to go through but then it did not appear. The substance of it was that things within the current demonstrations in America are like the Cultural Revolution in China.

FullMoon said...
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walter said...

Gadfly,
You should behave been able to understand AA was talking about a completely different issue.
But then...all about ya.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

that sweet sweet chi-com censorship - we can have some too.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

You/we are being monitored. There is no doubt.

YAY Chi com Hillary! Biden's bank account! Democratic connections to China and the Chinese communists!

communism is the same disease - everywhere. In the us, we call it the democrat party.

madAsHell said...

The question is who could be doing this?

I dunno. Maybe I can google it!!

madAsHell said...

Poor Yin is probably already on his way to a re-education camp!

Mark said...

This isn't a joke.

Never underestimate the propensity of a substantial portion of any crowd to be incredibly dense and to utterly miss the point.

Mark said...

We already know that Google and Apple and Microsoft and Twitter and Facebook and much of corporate management, et al. cower and cater to the whims of their Chinese communist masters.

madAsHell said...

It might be interesting to load some of the key words Yin used, and post them into a dummy test account. It might help distinguish the type of censorship. Has the Yin account been flagged?...or do they parse for keywords in the comment?

madAsHell said...

The moderators are being moderated!!

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

we applaud this effort

... with one hand

Lyle Smith said...

China is out to ruin us and control. Kick out of the United States all CCP members. Decouple our economy now!

chickelit said...

Are people able to freely read blogs like "Althouse" in mainland China? I somehow doubt it.

Rabel said...

"So should we all."

Thanks for the advice but I'll make my own decision.

Sprezzatura said...

“This isn't a joke.

Someone named Yin wrote something that might be triggering censorship that might be rigged into Blogger to take out.””

You have deleted plenty of my completely w/in the rules comments.

As you have the ability to do. It is what it is.

Do you get it?

Logic is tricky.

GingerBeer said...

Whatever became of the althou.se project?

Inga said...

Maybe Blogger has a filter to block comments that are coming in from China from certain IP addresses that have been marked as known government disinformation sites.

walter said...

"Your search - AlthousianZone.com - did not match any documents."

Rosalyn C. said...

Comparing the current purge of old fashioned liberals by woke second wave progressives to the Chinese Cultural Revolution is too close for comfort, too right wing for blogger? More likely that google has an algorithm to block such dangerous thoughts.

Mao’s Cultural Revolution has landed in America

Automatic_Wing said...

That this current bout of insanity resembles the Chinese cultural revolution is such a commonly expressed sentiment that it hardly seems worth censoring in a blog comments section.

Rusty said...

He ran afoul of emperor Xi's censors.

Openidname said...

"Inga said...

"Maybe Blogger has a filter to block comments that are coming in from China from certain IP addresses that have been marked as known government disinformation sites."

If so, bad in two ways. First, it deletes anyone using that IP address, even if innocent. Second, it should be more than adequate to add a flag, "Caution: This was posted from a known government disinformation site." Blocking is overkill.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Inga trusts the Chi Coms.

MayBee said...

I hope you are ok, Yin.

I know a few weeks ago someone on YouTube discovered every comment he made criticizing a propaganda arm of the Chinese government was disappearing. He asked other people to do the same in comments on various YouTube channels, and all of the comments were deleted.

YouTube (aka Google) later said there was 'inadvertently" a filter that had been set.
So yeah, I'm with Ann that this could very likely be a censorship thing they are seeing.

rhhardin said...

It would be a typical bug, that stuff going to moderators is not deleted until approved; an oversight on the part of censor software design. That leaves a trace visible to moderators.

Known Unknown said...

Another upside to moderation: The first 12 commenters make the same lame joke.

#freealthouse #commentervoicesmatter

Doug said...

China Is Asshole!

Guildofcannonballs said...

"You have deleted plenty of my completely w/in the rules comments."

Amazing.

Andrew said...

I am Yin.
I am Spartacus.

Original Mike said...

Blogger Inga said..."Maybe Blogger has a filter to block comments that are coming in from China from certain IP addresses that have been marked as known government disinformation sites."

Riiiight,…Google is protecting us from Chinese propaganda.

You never cease to amaze.

gadfly said...

Blogger walter said...

Gadfly,
You should behave been able to understand AA was talking about a completely different issue.
But then...all about ya.

Ease up Walt- if you have read the comments ahead of mine and since, no one seriously knows why Yang, or Blogger or Althouse has a problem. So no comments have been pertinent - including your uncalled for attack.

All about me, I presume has something to do my critical judgement of Trump - but I do not make it a habit to personally insult others unless provoked.

Ray - SoCal said...

Youtube had a "bug", where anyone using the Chinese for 50 cent had their comments deleted.

"Comments left under videos or in live streams that contain the words “共匪” (“communist bandit”) or “五毛” (“50-cent party”)"
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270290/youtube-deleting-comments-censorship-chinese-communist-party-ccp

Just like Twitter made an "Error" in permanently banning zerohedge. They just got reinstated.

exhelodrvr1 said...

We are no longer the knights who say Yin

Rusty said...

By now Yin is some police basement being questioned by Xi's minions and being helped in getting his thinking right.

wildswan said...

"gadfly said...
Ten percent or so of my post attempts here end up with a broken Blogger "B" appearing onscreen and an instruction to refresh, followed by a warning that I may be posting twice."

I sympathize because I used a Hotspot for six months and problems were continuous. Anyhow:

If you arrow back ONCE, you should arrive at the page with your comment typed into the comment box. Then you know what happened - your comment collided with another coming at the same time. And you simply retry, ONCE.

But most people hit the keys twice and even more times to be "sure" or because they're mad. Then you can't know what happened because you can't be sure what you told the computer to do. Moreover, there are problems caused by intermittent online connectivity but the screens are different. The only solution is to hit the key once, and once only, and track what happens.

Nichevo said...


Ann Althouse said...
This isn't a joke.

Someone named Yin wrote something that might be triggering censorship that might be rigged into Blogger to take out.


Urgently request that you relay all of Tim's comments under your own login or Meade's. Label them so and let us judge who sent them.





anti-de Sitter space said...
“This isn't a joke.

Someone named Yin wrote something that might be triggering censorship that might be rigged into Blogger to take out.””

You have deleted plenty of my completely w/in the rules comments.

As you have the ability to do. It is what it is.

Do you get it?

Logic is tricky.

6/13/20, 5:16 PM



You are subhuman.




Inga said...
Maybe Blogger has a filter to block comments that are coming in from China from certain IP addresses that have been marked as known government disinformation sites.

6/13/20, 5:34 PM


Inga, you have never disappointed me before the way you just have. You are a traitor to humanity.

Nichevo said...

Incidentally, Inga, you beast, the joke that all the commenters were making in the beginning is that in Chinese, Yang and Yin are the male and female principle respectively, e.g. the Yin-Yang symbol. Odds are that the person being censored by Google / China is a woman. Madeleine Albright had some things to say about people like you, and curiously, she spent some time in your old neck of the woods.

Nichevo said...

Ann Althouse said...
This isn't a joke.

Someone named Yin wrote something that might be triggering censorship that might be rigged into Blogger to take out.


Urgently request that you relay all of Yin's comments under your own login or Meade's. Label them so and let us judge who sent them.


The commenter regrets the error.

Ann Althouse said...

We didn't copy Yin's comments before approving them, and then they never appeared. So I can't show them to you.

Yin never reappeared, despite this post.

Nichevo said...

Ah. I guess I figured you'd have it all backed up in email or RSS if nothing else.

Sorry Yin. We're on your side!