deleting my political blog
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WordPress in their infinite wisdom deleted my political blog because I predominantly re-posted other articles as an aggregator to save people time. I built it up to where I was getting 100 visitors a day and then had them summarily take my blog away and state that I can’t have it back but then suggested that I could have it on a PAID blog site.
What happened to freedom of speech? We fought and died for these freedoms and now that Obama is in office we are seeing them taken away little by little. They won’t even bother to respond to my criticisms nor answer my emails.
There was nothing illegal or threatening anyone, just simply critique of the administration. There were no curse words or profanity. This is so wrong on so many levels
John Wilder
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When you register at WordPress.com, you fully agree to comply with the Terms of Service. What’s wrong on your part is breaching the copyright of others by creating a
splog, breaching the WordPress.com ToS and then having the audacity to complain about your blog being suspended for copyright violations. -
I did not violate copyright violations, I fully gave credit for the piece that was re-blogged. WordPress even has a re-blog button. This is a political blog. There are liberals on here doing the same thing such as
My Top Stories of the Week – on my re-launched ‘Learn From Nature’ blog
That is all he does is to recopy liberal posts about global warming but he is still doing it. It is censorship in the most vile form differentiating liberals and giving them preference and taking away my right to free speech because I am a conservative.
John Wilder
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BTW timethief:
As a paid writer, I am as sympathetic to copy right infringements more so than others. When you re-blog someone else’s post, it gets it in front of new viewers therebye increasing their readerhship for free. I ALWAYS give permission for people to reblog my posts because it brings new readers to my other blog post which averages 300 a day for over 73,000 page views. It is not copyright infringement when you give full credit and a back link to the source but free advertising.John Wilder
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Fredom of speech example: (my own words)
In children developmental psychologists call this black and white thinking primitive thinking and most of us grow out of it. In adults those who are most prone to regressing to primitive thinking are fearful and emotional. Many are passive aggressive manipulators who aren’t even aware their own hatred and bigotry provokes them to demand simple minded solutions to complex problems. The same maladjusted adults also tend to be supportive of the most draconian measures and even perverse measures when it comes to law and order.
Adults who are prone to primitive thinking have other characteristics. Many are ill educated and proud of it. Many are adherents to fundamentalist religions and proud of it. Many are in favor of the death penalty and proud of it. Many are patriotic in the extreme. Many are drawn to conspiracy theories. These characteristics may suggest that the adult teabaggers are fearful “little people” projecting false bravado, who got stuck in childhood black and white thinking, and failed to develop to their full intellectual potential as most adults do.
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If it is not your OWN speech, it is not free. I report blogs like that all the time for theft.
Your philosophy is irrelevant: the law says you are not allowed to post entire articles written by other people without their permission. If you were a truly professional writer as you claim, you would respect your collegues more.
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It is not copyright infringement when you give full credit and a back link to the source but free advertising.
This is a dangerous misconception. In fact, when you duplicate someone’s content you negatively impact both your blog and theirs in search engine optimization terms. As well, it IS theft. If you didn’t think so, why didn’t you ask?
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Hey Raincoaster
then why does wordpress have a reblog app? And yes it does increase the readership when you repost it. Why then do they allow liberals to do the same thing and get away with it?John Wilder
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And Hey Teamoyeiniyi
What does your comment have to do with contributing to the conversation at hand other than just simply hate speech?
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It is not copyright infringement when you give full credit and a back link to the source but free advertising.
Republishing a BRIEF excerpt, correctly identifying the author of it, and providing a link back to the original post is the correct protocol. That protocol insures you are not violating copyright law, and encourages any reader who wants to read the full post to click the link and visit the original post on its author’s site.
Succinctly stated whether or not the author of any original digital work has posted a copyright notice on their site or the work itself is irrelevant. It does not change the fact that they hold the copyright to their works and it cannot be re-published unless or until their permission has been given. The only time a complete post can be legally re-published is when prior written permission has been received from the copyright holder. In other words, the same rules that apply to the world of print also apply in cyberspace.
10 Big Myths about copyright explainedCopyright Basics (U.S. Copyright Office) http://www.copyright.gov/
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The reblogging tool is meant to be used on an occasional basis. At this time, the limit for any single reblog is 128 words or 512 characters. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/reblogging-1?replies=21#post-799834 The reblogging tool is not meant to be used to create a splog full of reblogged ie. duplicate content.
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Hey timethief
Yes well now I am an uneducated moron who is primitive in his thinking. It seems to me that wordpress could have given me a warning instead of just closing down my blog. There are many others on here who are doing it. I don’t recall reading it in the fine print.
I have no problem following rules but first you have to explain them.
Would it surprise you to know that my IQ is 136? and I have a BA with a double major and attended grad school.
John Wilder
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Hey raincoaster
I always retitle the blog post in the header so it does not screw with search engines.
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Have you considered that re-titling the work of others and splogging it makes you appear to be a content thief, who is attempting to pass off the work of others as his own? Google’s Panda algorithm which was introduced to detect duplicate content is working very well.
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In a very real sense it never was your blog at all. You have, therefore, no rights to assert.
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