A blog admin changed my comment!
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I think this information would be important to everyone. When you are commenting on a blog, there is no guarantee that the blog was created by an American. Freedom of speech is a US Constitutional right. The world wide web does not belong to any one country, and therefor is not governed by any one country. It is the world wide web. If you <i>choose</i> to log onto the world wide web and <i>choose</i> to post comments to anyone, anywhere, your words can be changed at any time.
This is not a violation of yours or anyones rights. If you don’t like that your words have been changed, don’t post any comments and they can’t be changed. If you do freely choose to make a comment, understand, it may disappear, change, transform, or repeat at any time. If you would like more control over how your words are used, raincoaster has an excellent suggestion, run your own blog where you are in control of what you say. Even then you don’t have full control, because what if one day WordPress decides to close shop and all the blogs with it? There is no law to stop them or any law to prevent them from deleting your blog. It’s the world wide web of computers and no one country has jurisdiction over any other country operating on the web. The internic could shut down all together one day, and what is any one country going to do about it?
Lets just understand that the internet may appear permanent, but the computers connected to it are owned by somebody/anybody/everybody and one/some/any of those computers might go away some day due to fire, natural disaster, etc. So go the words and the blogs and anything else stored on them with it.
Post with enthusiasm, post with excitement, post with the mind that it may, or may not make a difference or may/may not be temporary.
Happy Posting
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There is also no guarantee that Americans will honor your constitutional rights (quick, look surprised!). Many whine about their rights being violated while they are violating the rights of others.
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All WordPress.com blogs are governed by US law; that’s in the Terms of Service. If you really want to go to the barricades for your comment, remember that the contents and the copyright belong to you and you have the option to take legal action if you so choose when/if your comment is edited. This may not be the case when/if it is deleted.
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One of my concerns is advertising. Alot of people advertise on my blog so I usually edit that out. That isn’t a problem is it?
Watex
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