Over the last two and a half years I have been writing this blog, without much concern about what I said or about whom. This is no longer the case. After recently receiving public, veiled and private warnings and threats, many of you may have noticed that my blog has become more newsy and and I have made it less opinionated or reduced the amount of color that I add to the news. This will be the case while I figure out where to go from here.
I have privately kicked around some ideas with friends and so far, the only one that has some appeal to me is to open my blog to posts from other people. I would moderate them, but people could write whatever they wanted and I would not identify them to protect them (and me!). The blog would be more of a collaboration and thus I could not be accused of saying anything in particular. The only thing I would ask people to do is to use lots of links to prove points and not throw facts up in the air without backing. What do you think? Please send comments privately or leave them below in the comments section.
Similarly, during the last two years and half I have never censored comments, even if some people felt at some point that I did. Ever since my successful newspaper “Se Dice” was censored in my high school when I was fifteen, I have believed in freedom of speech. (It was actually not censored, it was prohibited!). However, at times the comments section has been dominated by individuals in ways that I felt took away from my blog. A blog is a personal diary by definition.
I love when people make comments, even if I disagree with what they say. But when someone makes two dozen posts in three hours that exceed my own posts in the last five days, it stops being my blog and becomes someone else’s. More so if the topic is not precisely that of this blog or the writer has his own blog. If someone wants to prove that Vladimir Putin is a crook, or there was no Holocaust or the FARC are peace loving angels, do it somewhere else, not here. Start a blog about it if you want, but junk should be somewhere else, not here.
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