It is much harder to win a lawsuit than it is to start one.

I don’t think judges are entirely stupid (most anyway)… they can realize when someone is suing just because they don’t like what is written about them.

So again, just because these people sue…does NOT guarantee them a victory in court….especially when some of the reasons are so frivolus that they can be thrown out of court at anytime.

check http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/06/saatchi_liked_my_art_so_much.html

and see how although its supposed to be my blog, im censored from commenting on it, because i complained that i didnt write the title. the guardian online contacted me and asked me to write a blog. i sent them a blog, and they asked if they could rewrite it. i agreed to a rewrite, and the journalist and i went through it on the fone together, which was probably a mistake, in hindsight. then when i saw it was online, they had made a title up which i had never said or written or agreed to. it sounded like it was my words.
i emailed them and asked them to change it, but they said that because there were no quotes on it that it was a title and not a misquote. i know papers do that stuff all the time, but because it was me, it felt different.

My artwork deals with internet communication and future horrors, and this was all starting to feel abit close to what im interested in (and scared by)

i started leaving comments (on ‘my own blog’) saying how i hadnt written it and that the title was completely made up by the people at the guardian.
the comments i left were promptly deleted or edited and no mention was left on the blog by the moderator to show that they had been edited in that way.

I started accusing them of censorship, and these comments were deleted also, but luckily not before other people had seen them, so it started a debate on the guardian’s free speach policy stuff. i got a few kind phone calls from a moderator who tried to sort it out ( the mods were great over the fone) they actually tried to change the title, and it was changed, so everything was ok.

then i was on my way home and i got a call from another guy at the guardian. he was the one who had rewritten the article with me over the phone. (he had also been friendly untill this point)

he said he was puzzled by what had been happening on the web blog, and i said everything had been sorted out and appologised for the trouble. he continued to tell me that i shouldnt go accusing a national newspaper of censorship and that i could get sued. he also threatened to take the blog offline. i told him that it might be easier for him if he did, but i didnt care either way.

check the blog for more details. im really sick of getting censored.

the reason i post here is because my great friend fil has been following this site for a great many years and said that truth could be found without censorship or moderation except for spelling mistakes. and this community would listen. thankyou.

Well done. Well written. Well said. I agree that we are in some very interesting times now and the changes we are engulfed are most certainly scaring the crap out of the big boys who are clinging desperately to their power and control. We will win. It won’t happen overnight but we’ll get there. Keep up the good work.