"We have determined that it violates our guidelines and deleted the post, previously at https://althouse.blogspot.com/2025/05/is-news-of-bidens-advance-cancer-news.html. Why was your blog post deleted? Your content has been evaluated according to our Hate Speech policy. Please visit our
Community Guidelines page... to learn more.... We encourage you to review the full content of your blog posts to make sure they are in line with our standards as additional violations could result in termination of your blog."
So I got that email from Blogger this morning.
I'm following the review procedure, and I fully expect the post to be restored, but what jackassery! Was I "inciting hatred against" Joe Biden "on the basis of" his "disability"?!
I'd linked to something titled "This is the Most Dangerous Cover-up in the History of the Presidency...."
Is "the most dangerous cover-up" something that must be... covered up?
Posts
116 comments:
"Is "the most dangerous cover-up" something that must be... covered up?"
To ask is to know.
That's standard Madison WI Reddit moderation.
In my mind, this means you're doing something right.
Interesting how this plays right along with the "we can't talk about Biden's infirmity while in office now that he has cancer – have you no shame!" narrative Democrats pushed.
How often has this happened to you?
I don’t remember you posting anything offensive. Was that the one where I said “these are YOUR Democrats” and you denied it three times?
@JAORE, @One Eye, @mindnumbrobot
You are correct, sirs.
Google is evil.
I know you moderate comments but has Blogger ever taken any down?
5 years ago I was having daily tussles with CISA. Jack-assery writ large.
"How often has this happened to you?"
It hasn't happened in a while. Maybe not in the past year. But I've had them enough to know that the review process works quickly. There's a temptation for Blogger to rely on that level to deal with legit blogs. Obviously it has to deal with zillions of genuinely bad things that would ruin the whole enterprise. The greater danger to me is that Google would just shut down Blogger altogether. A temporary loss of a post is probably not seen as that important in the larger scheme of things at Blogger. Read the community guidelines to get an idea of what crap threatens to destroy the value of the site.
Now just ask yourself what it would take to get a derogatory statement about President Trump taken down.
Do you think it’s even possible?
"I know you moderate comments but has Blogger ever taken any down?"
Blogger has a spam filter. If it didn't, I wouldn't be able to have a comments section. It would be filled with links to commercial sites.
I presume people try to "flag" my posts all the time, so a mere flag is not enough to get them to take something down.
I suspect the problem here is a dislike of the person I linked to: https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1924224868922667090
The greater danger to me is that Google would just shut down Blogger altogether.
Selfishly, I hope you have both a literal and a figurative backup plan for that eventuality.
Just so it’s clear, it wasn’t your blog post that made me dislike Joe Biden. That ship sailed during the Thomas hearings.
This instance of censorship aimed at Althouse has synchronicity with her first post of the day about "intersectional hierarchies".
Base on the standards the progressives have erected for themselves as shaky props for their rickety politics, Althouse is now among the oppressed and thereby entitled to stuff she otherwise could not rightfully enjoy.
If taken to its logical conclusion, the single most systemically oppressed (what a useful adverb, systemically) person today is Donald John Trump. Hardly a true sentence is written about him in the world's legacy press, the corporate entity currently currently oppressing/suppressing Althouse, and all manner violence is encouraged against him. That's intersectionality on 'roids, man.
Interested readers can read the post that Google is attempting to censor here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250519003206/https://althouse.blogspot.com/2025/05/is-news-of-bidens-advance-cancer-news.html
Google thinks it runs the internet, but it doesn't. You can't delete speech off the internet.
Automated systems may be getting better all the time, but they are still garbage. No human looked at your post and decided to suppress it; an automated system picked up on some flagged keywords.
Hopefully decision reviews are done by actual people, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are automated also.
The soros google mobsters who control media/Biden and all the willing corrupt Dems who go along with it - LIE SO MUCH - the truth cannot be found.
All of that is on purpose. The evil one, grins.
"Selfishly, I hope you have both a literal and a figurative backup plan for that eventuality."
Thanks.
There is no way to extract this blog's archive from Blogger. I've known that for more than 15 years. The main backup is just archive.org (the "Wayback Machine"). As for a place to go forward, well, I'm 74 and have been doing this for 21+ years, so if Blogger ended or ended my blog, I would analyze the event in light of all the circumstances. Other than that, it's like worrying about other disasters in life. You can't work them all out in advance, and you don't want to use up the good time that you have attending to things that might not happen or that you can't change anyway. If I go somewhere else, you'll be able to find me.
I’ll be everywhere... I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad...
Everything must conform to The Narrative. If it does not conform it must be suppressed as dangerous speech.
Oh, and by the way, you should hate Joe Biden. He's an absolute asshole and felony criminal and the cover-up of his racism and Alzheimer's disease by a cabal of unelected Democrats led by Barack Obama is the worst scandal in the history of our nation. They wrote themselves fake pardons and it's a travesty of justice that Donald Trump doesn't have the balls to put these people in prison.
You should absolutely hate every single one of these people.
How's that for some hate speech, Google?
Wow. We're seeing in real time the media dynamics of the Biden Family's announcement of Joe's cancer the day prior to the Original Sin publication. A "disability" that requires suppression of all discussion of his mental competence as President and the coverup of same. Weaponized empathy is the theme of the day.
Quoting Ann's post for those who can't access Wayback Machine:
"I'm reading "This is the Most Dangerous Cover-up in the History of the Presidency...."
Link: https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1924224868922667090
'Advanced prostate cancer takes +10 years to develop to the stage where Biden’s diagnosis is. Prostate cancer is also *easy* to find. Simple blood test or prostate exam will give you near 100% accurate results. You’re telling me that the best doctors and testing on earth did not *find* Biden’s cancer in all these years of testing? Was every medical report a lie? For how long?'
Are we only receiving this news now to distract from the just-released Hur tapes — to quiet all criticism? "
I would assume it was something in the comments. Did Achilles say something over the line?
You regularly delete my comments while leaving up some really vile stuff from Trumpsters.
I'm sure you feel, “It's my blog, so I decide.”
Looks like Blogger feels the same.
Every time you suggest a President should be removed under the 25th Amendment, you are waging an unfair attack on disabled people, revealing your own biases. In a way you are the disabled person. Up is down.
We're the people.
"I’ll be everywhere... "
"If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
And then they wonder why nobody trusts the so called watch dogs. They can call Trump and his supporters Nazi's, but GOD forbid you tell the truth about Biden...and they want to cancel or censor you....
Vile but witty beats vile but wearisome everytime, Once Written.
Oh shit. I thought that the whole point of having a blog, as opposed to social media, was to do your own thing without intrusive oversight.
I've been here for a good chunk of those 21 years, and come because it's rationale and informative. There are blogs I visit that have a front seat on the crazy train.
Your comment section has been thriving and reader engagement is high. As a one-woman operation retaining the old blogosphere style, this must be a higher profile site. Does that get you more attention from the Gooble-bots?
...the stuff that dreams are made of.
Shall we see how far old movie dialogue can take us, Kate?
‘Was I "inciting hatred against" Joe Biden "on the basis of" his "disability"?!’
You have been hating on Joe Biden, just not at the level of hate speech. Some of your commenters however…
We should be thanking the censors, not complaining about them. If the wrong person read that post...my god! Just think what might happen.
The need for censoring this type of content is unfortunate, but if it saves one vote...
Part of the plan...
https://www.azquotes.com/author/8716-Vladimir_Lenin
You're over the target like a Ukrainian drone, Althouse. Defensive measures have been initiated.
Now just imagine what you'd be able to post if Harris/Walz had been elected. Red Dawn time (and not just sunrise photos). Wolverines time, not Badgers..
Meh. There’s much censorship that goes on at the Althouse blog. A day what ends in Y…
You will be commanded from on high to show your deepest compassion for the Biden family.
Stalin-goog hath spoken.
It'd be easy for the far-left adminstrators at Google to publish clear, easily understood examples of what can be censored and what wont be. They never do that, nor did Twitter before it was taken over by Musk.
That way, they can delete and censor anything they wish under some vague impossible to clearly understand standards. Like Sandra Day O'Connor and John Roberts they hate "bright lines" and clear lines of demarcation.
the First Rule of dangerous cover-ups..
is you CANNOT Talk about dangerous cover-ups
Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"
Trying to understand comments. So the argument is "Censorship exists" so Althouse should be censored by leftists protecting Joe Biden.
Okey-dokey.
Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained.
Split a piece of wood; I am there.
Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
Fuck that.
Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you."
What to do with a "burden" like Blogger. Let us bray.
And didn't Althouse write one time that her blog is the most popular on Blogger?
Shouldn't Althouse get some slack and deference?
Talking about Google, their search engine has become delibrately useless. Instead of giving you 50 links to various sites you get the same standard 10-12. And sometimes on some subjects you get nothing relevant, except the "party line".
So, where's the free market Losertarians? Where's the competitor who'll take over from Google? Just more example of libertarianism being Bullshit.
respectfully, Professor;
That's What You Get, for sticking with an obsolete platform from an obsolete company.
For (at LEAST!) the last 7 years, you've been saying (paraphrased):
'I CAN'T Leave blogger! i'd lose my old posts!'
Eventually (PROBABLY sooner than later), the Google corp will shut down blogger, and you'll LOSE it all anyway.
IF you'd left 5 years ago, you'd have 5 years they couldn't get.
But, you'll die soon, maybe blogger will outlast you?
One trope over the line, Sweet Jesus
One trope over the line
"Shouldn't Althouse get some slack and deference?"
Do you live in the real world? Google puts leftwing politics over money and always has. Why do people in the center and on the Right always want to live a fantasy world where corporate America is run by apolitical persons just driven profits? Its not true and hasn't been true for a very long time.
In fact it goes all the way back to 1917 when a rich business man helped Lenin gets back to Russia and when the bolshivik party was recieving money from several Wall street firms.
back when i was working, i used to smile as i'd say to users:
"But, you kept your OWN backups.. DIDN'T you?"
Seriously, if a user doesn't care enough to save their own files..
A spider is able to spin a blogger-wide web and harvest its content. Perhaps a black widow-style cannibalism of its Google companion.
Toe the line, comrade, and you will also be receiving an extra ration of beets.
This blog has been targeted by a lot of commenters who are not acting in good faith.
Stay with us, friend, and we’ll have you smiling like a Russian!
That's so annoying. What a bunch of "R-words" at Blogger - censoring harmless, reasonable people like that.
Seriously, if a user doesn't care enough to save their own files..
What about the comments?
You could copy what there is and paste it into the doc where you've composed your post (assuming you don't compose directly in Blogger), say after two or three days, and if people post after that then their comments will just not be backed up. But I would imagine our host and her faithful swain are busy enough without that.added task.
Protecting the Our Democracy (TM)
Is a “chilling effect” what is intended from these periodic acts of prior restraint against the innocent?
The silliest acts of censorship are reversed, eventually, but you’ve been “warned.” “We own your work.”
Time for a new tag: "community standards bullshit". The community had, and has, absolutely no input into the formulation of the standards. The only honest description of him would be "proprietary standards".
"Ann Althouse said...
I’ll be everywhere... I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad...
6/2/25, 8:00 AM"
Tom Joad. Well played, Ann.
Is "the most dangerous cover-up" something that must be... covered up?
Of course it is, peasant! Know your place!
Left Bank of the Charles said...
‘Was I "inciting hatred against" Joe Biden "on the basis of" his "disability"?!’
You have been hating on Joe Biden, just not at the level of hate speech. Some of your commenters however…
Joe Biden is a rapist.
Joe Biden is a vicious bully.
Joe Biden took Billions of dollars from foreign enemies and betrayed the people that elected him.
Joe Biden started wars and millions of people are dying because he is an evil man leading an evil party.
Joe Biden implemented an NGO system that helped Illegal immigrants travel through south and central america knowing that every single one of those people paid the Mexican Cartels for passage.
Joe Biden also knew that thousands if not millions of women and children were raped on that route.
Joe Biden also knew that thousands of children disappeared at our border into our country and he purposely ordered there be no investigations or attempts to find them.
If you do not hate Joe Biden you are an amoral piece of shit.
It sounds like someone didn't like that post and reported you. I actually don't remember it being mean or cruel towards Biden so I don't think that it was automatically flagged by the algorithm. (Although, maybe they're using AI to do it now and it's much easier to tweak that to flag political speech that the AI programmers simply don't like.)
Joe Biden(Barrack Obama) implemented a collusive relationship between the largest corporations in the world and the federal government to censor and disenfranchise US citizens and end run around the first amendment.
Joe Biden and all of this supporters are fascists.
If you do not hate Joe Biden and all of his supporters then you wouldn't have hated the NAZI party in Germany either.
Freder's wish for hate laws is just a wish for people to not be able to accurate discuss what Freder and his fascist friends tried to do.
Mark said...
I would assume it was something in the comments. Did Achilles say something over the line?
Probably.
The line is accurately describing the actions of leftist traitors and seditionists like Joe Biden.
Joe Biden took money from foreign governments and did harm to the United States on their behalf. This makes Joe Biden a traitor by definition.
Joe Biden colluded with Google to censor Americans on their platforms. This isn't even an accusation or allegedly. Everyone acknowledges this.
Accurately describing this is a Red line for fascists like you.
Hilariously Mark and Freder are blatantly espousing a fascist argument on a post where they are openly explaining why some people might get this blog banned.
Have no illusions about what Mark and Freder want. Mao would be proud.
They want a country where you cannot talk about what Freder and Mark are actually doing. They want censorship. They want their political opponents in jail for saying what Mark and Freder are actually doing and supporting.
"Is "the most dangerous cover-up" something that must be... covered up?" Yes. Next topic.
Praying that your blog won't go the way of ¡No Pasarán!
So, will the person who flagged it for Google have the courage to admit doing so in this thread?
"If you do not hate Joe Biden you are an amoral piece of shit."
The River Charles has two left banks. About a hundred Smoots apart.
Some of ¡No Pasarán! is on X now, and likely will continue to be, unless the EU decides to censor X the way Brazil did when Elon was circumventing their rule about not criticizing a certain Brazilian Supreme Court Justice.
I'm assuming this was flagged by Google's AI. Isn't AI advanced enough to know what you meant?
Surely, all the Althouse back and forth with Grok suggests that, at least Grok understands the the subtleties of the English language.
BTW. As I compose this comment, I'm seeing my spelling of Althouse redlined as a misspelling. I'm using my Windows computer, if that info helps. It's as if something, or someone? is not recognizing Althouse.
This is some scary shit right here.
Lem Vibe Banditory said...
BTW. As I compose this comment, I'm seeing my spelling of Althouse redlined as a misspelling. I'm using my Windows computer, if that info helps. It's as if something, or someone? is not recognizing Althouse.
This is some scary shit right here.
Elon buying X was probably the biggest change in the formation of a social fabric as a single event in history.
Well, I read the post and all of the comments that had appeared by the time of the last screen shot taken by the WayBackMachine and only two comments stood out to me as being possibly connected to Google taking down the post- my own comment linking Biden's "sudden onset" cancer to his hocking and taking of the COVID-19 RNA vaccines and Le Douchebag's going on and on about having to accidentally read a Benny Johnson tweet.
Looks like some of the snotty young self anointed Wikipedia wanna be editors have migrated to these blog checkers. A pox on all their houses.
I wonder if USAid funding helped seek out Hate Speech at some point.
"Is 'the most dangerous cover-up' something that must be... covered up?"
As Georg Christoph Lichtenberg put it in his Aphorisms, "The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalogue of banned books." (G 37, translated and renumbered by R. J. Hollingdale)
Jamie said...
What about the comments?
i actually Wondered about that, when i wrote my comment..
Professor? is you desire for searchablity for your posts or our comments?
i assume the former; but would be impressed by the later
The blog "No Pasaran", as mentioned above, was locked and removed by Google just last week. It had been around for 21 years. https://lemondewatch.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-blog-no-pasaran-has-been-locked-and.html
Biden says he's started treatment for his prostate cancer and the prognosis is good. Trump says Biden was executed in 2020 and was replaced with a legion of clones. It can be hard to know who to believe.
Well, Kak, here's some help: Don't believe Biden; his prognosis is anything but "good."
Blogger can try to lock the barn door, but the horses already have escaped. Only the abjectly ignorant don’t know about Biden’s decline at this point.
Was it a robot or a clone? That part isn't exactly clear. And if it's both, that's really an example of how Biden managed to reach across the aisle. 😂
You would think that the system would have long ago been set up to leave Althouse alone. That's a pretty clear line to draw it seems to me.
- Krumhorn
Pay some undergrad to hard copy it, wand-scan it into an electronic archive, and put a copy in a bank vault. And I'm sure there are even far better ways -- tech is not my baliwick. Your blog is historically important enough that the university, or another one, might even archive it.
Somewhat off-topic, Anais Nin wrote her diary every day for decades. I have a picture of the dimunitive Nin sitting in a bank vault on an enormous pile of her diaries.
Re. the censorship: it will only grow worse. Kick the hornet's nest. You'll save powerless people.
Ann Althouse said... "I’ll be everywhere... I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad..."
I'm trying to remember the last line I've read that made me so happy.
you can't stop the system, Mal (Firefly)
You have been hating on Joe Biden, just not at the level of hate speech.
Who gets to decide what is and is not 'hate' speech, let alone hate speech that needs to be censored? You? Nope. The rest of your friends on the left? Nope, again.
Hate speech is free speech. Deal with it.
Interesting that after years and years of hate speech directed to liberal commenters here, including even death threats, that Blogger has first acted upon their Hate Speech guidelines.
you live in Wisconsin, where there is unlimited Cheese for your Whine.
Interesting that after years and years of hate speech directed to liberal commenters here
Yeah. Because you've never spewed hate at the conservative commenters here.
I mean, it's almost as if you didn't delete every, single comment you made just a few months ago and then ran off and hid until you thought it was safe to come back and engage in it some more.
I'll admit the hate. Freely and openly.
It's better than running around waving your finger of shame while claiming to not hate.
Jeez, Inga, we don't hate you- we just hate that you are as dumb as a bag of dogshit.
It ain't what you said, Althouse.
Its your toxic fuckwad commenters.
You laid down with dogs and wonder why Blogger thinks you have fleas.
Mark said...
It ain't what you said, Althouse.
Its your toxic fuckwad commenters.
You laid down with dogs and wonder why Blogger thinks you have fleas.
Aww look at the little fascist mad that someone pointed out he wants people censored and thrown in jail for opposing him.
Mark wanted people to lose their jobs for not taking an mRNA shot that they pretended was a vaccine.
Mark ran with multiple lies and blood libels like the Russian Collusion hoax and the "Good people on both sides" smear and the "Laptop is Russian disinformation" lie.
There are so many lies that Mark told and he wanted the people that pointed out he is a liar censored.
Mark supported BLM killing people, looting everything they could get, and burning down hundreds of honest businesses.
I would feel bad for fleas that were stuck with Mark. Just an all around dishonest terrible person.
“You laid down with dogs and wonder why Blogger thinks you have fleas.”
Indeed. I’m surprised it took so long for Blogger to notice.
Inga said...
Interesting that after years and years of hate speech directed to liberal commenters here, including even death threats, that Blogger has first acted upon their Hate Speech guidelines.
Inga, who still pretends Trump colluded with Russia and calls her political opponents Putin puppets, got big madz about hate speech.
How many police officers did the J6 protestors kill you lying sack of crap? Lets hear it. Say the number.
You are a terrible dishonest person. Sometimes the truth leads you to an obvious conclusion.
What we are seeing now is a conclusion to the preference cascade. Inga spewed hate and cheered violence when she thought she was on the winning side.
Now she wants the people she viciously smeared and tried to have jailed to play nice after she loses.
You had a chance to play nice. You chose violence and lies.
Nobody thinks you are a decent person. You are responsible for the terrorist in Colorado and all of the political violence over the last year.
A critical mass of American citizens has realized people like you will never fit in a free high trust society.
We are going to treat you like you have been treating us. We told you this would happen.
Forget talking to men, Democrats need to learn how to talk to Althouse. She's competitive as sh!t, and you have issued a challenge. Sabers at dawn.
Inga said...
“You laid down with dogs and wonder why Blogger thinks you have fleas.”
Indeed. I’m surprised it took so long for Blogger to notice.
Inga so wants the Government and Google to censor her political opponents because we are pointing out what she actually wants.
Inga is just a fascist. She wants Google to take down Althouse's blog because people on that platform disagree with her.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if people like Achilles were the cause of the Althouse Blog being shut down by Blogger? She gave him so much freedom to say just about anything including death threats of “wet work”, hangings on lamp posts, against liberals, blowing up or burning down of Washington DC, etc, etc. etc. over the years. I wonder if something or someone in Blogger’s Community Guidelines may have changed recently, who knows?
Achilles, prove I said that.
You are fuller of shit than your average septic system and you know it.
Methinks thou protest too much and realize you said something that got it censored. Why else the defensiveness?
I give Achilles the fact that he no longer threatens hanging and shooting anymore, he just sounds one step away from promoting a final solution for his political opponents.
Meet the fleas, althouse
“Meet the fleas, althouse”
She’s quite used to them hopping around the Alt-House for so many years and seems to be very comfortable with them.
I was wondering if this ever happened on this blog. I know of at least two other blogger who have moved on to Substack, or other places. Google doesn't like free thinkers.
Mark said...
Achilles, prove I said that.
You are fuller of shit than your average septic system and you know it.
Methinks thou protest too much and realize you said something that got it censored. Why else the defensiveness?
Here is your chance Mark.
Denounce the democrat party and all of the people who donated money to the terrorist organization BLM.
Denounce and refuse to support the democrat party until they stop supporting racism and open borders.
Let everyone know that you support the people who are restoring our border and that you support the president who is bringing order back and his efforts to deport the foreign invaders who are attacking and killing Americans.
Prove me wrong. Prove you are not in favor of foreign invaders and the constantly violent Democrat Party.
Point of order: Vox Day has kept his archive from back in 2004, and transferred it when Google kicked him off Blogspot. Didn't save the comments, but then that's not the worst loss. He could probably assist you in not being entirely forgotten: I don't think Stefan Molyneux really recovered from losing his archive, and Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) is much the same in the video sphere.
Achilles bangs his shoe on the podium, making demands. What's next buddy? Sending me via train to a special camp?
Sure sounds like it.
Mark said...
Achilles bangs his shoe on the podium, making demands. What's next buddy? Sending me via train to a special camp?
Sure sounds like it
You prove my point.
You are a racist both at and the individual and the institutional level.
You support censorship.
You support political violence.
You are not compatible with a free high trust society. You are dishonest and you will not be honest about what you want.
It is not hate speech to point out you are a terrible person and a fascist as defined by both your words and deeds.
You have nothing to back those claims with.
Zip, zero, nada.
Achilles is the type of commenter that puts Althouse’s blog at risk. The extremist commentary along with threats of violence he has made in the past…one day…who knows if we won’t hear of something he’s done.
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