Comment is Unnecessary

June 9, 2007
Comment is Free - But Not That Free

I wondered how the Guardian would react to my criticism of their editorial staff on comment is free. What they appear to have done is attempt to delete the entire article altogether. I tried to do that with a posting on this blog, but found that if you had the exact url it would still appear, no matter how comprehensively off this server. So this link still works -
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/craig_murray/2007/06/reids_new_best_friends.html

The remarks in question come in a comment I added at the end of the thread.

The Guardian has removed any reference to the article from the home page and cif listings, so there is no way anybody visiting the Guardian today knows it is there. I don't know whether it is still possible to post a comment below it.

So I am asking everybody with access to a blog or site to post the above link over the course of the next week, to defeat the Guardian's attempt to cut off dissent at its abandonment of its liberal tradition.

We have now mirrored the Guardian page just in case they do manage to find a way to scrub the original
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/CiF/reids_new_best_friends.html

People can also, of course, post on other Guardian comment is free threads protesting at the deletion of this article. Then we will see how free comment really is at the Guardian.

Posted by craig on 9:41 AM 09/06/07 under UK Policy | Comments (1)