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Why I left 911Blogger

I had been posting blog entries at 911Blogger since November, 2009, and visiting the site daily. The first inkling I had that things weren't quite right there came when an innocuous blog entry I posted, referencing an interview with Adam Syed and Adam Ruff on the Kevin Barrett Show, was blocked or rejected by the moderators at 911Blogger, without explanation.

My blog entry clearly conformed with the 911Blogger rules. It was neither ad-hominem nor insulting, it did not promote hatred, racism, violence, terrorism or criminal actions, it did not continue arguments with other users, nor did it contain sexual or pornographic material.

There is nothing in 911Blogger rules that prohibits references to Kevin Barrett's radio shows.

So I posted another blog entry, this time raising the issue of censorship and divisions in the truth movement more generally, and it was also rejected without explanation. I then posted a third entry, this time about securities fraud by the Fed on 9/11, and it was approved without delay.

So it seemed to me that certain people and subjects were secretly prohibited at 911Blogger. This immediately raised my suspicions. We already know, we have it from the horse's mouth, they espouse "cognitive infiltration" of 9/11 truth groups. They will attempt to infiltrate high profile sites like 911Blogger.

But it wasn't until the recent fiasco over the CIT blog entry, that I finally woke up to just how bad things had got at 911Blogger. The assault on CIT, led by Cosmos (YT), was relentless, unwarranted and unprovoked. It began with gratuitous derision and quickly descended into fits of spite and ego-driven, partisan bickering - the tone was one of blame, censure and ill will.

My attempts to inject some balance into the discussion immediately met with rank hostility from Cosmos and his henchmen. I was scolded and scorned for refusing to condemn CIT. When I attempted to defend myself, I was accused of "hate spewing" by Cosmos, and my comments were systematically down voted into oblivion.

It seems to me the site has been overtaken by dishonest and insincere operators, who are attempting to discredit and suppress credible evidence in a surreptitious fashion. They have effectively corrupted what has hitherto been one of the most prominent 911 truth sites on the web.

Their deceitful, pernicious stratagem is particularly evident in the down-voting censorship system employed at 911Blogger. This system enables individuals with multiple accounts to essentially "disappear" comments they don't like. Since multiple accounts are forbidden by the site's rules, and since it is a relatively simple matter to identify multiple accounts by their IP addresses, anyone operating multiple accounts at 911Blogger must be doing so with the knowledge and approval of the site's administrators.

One contributor in particular, an individual who uses the pseudonym Cosmos, clearly controls multiple accounts. This is evidenced by the voting patterns that accompany his comments whenever he engages in debate on the site's comment threads. Posting under the name YT, Cosmos can deliver up to six votes at a time, either up or down. This pattern is clearly anomalous and indicative of someone controlling multiple accounts.

This anomalous voting pattern recurs frequently in comment threads involving Cosmos, as illustrated here and here. When I brought these anomalous voting patterns to the attention of 911Blogger administrators, via the comment thread, direct email and a blog entry, their only response was to immediately block my comments and suspend my account.

Since I have no desire to participate in a shady "truth" site, and anticipating their reaction to my challenge, I had already removed all my content from their site, so their pathetic response neither bothered me nor allayed my suspicions about 911Blogger. And since Cosmos continues his shenanigans there unimpeded, my suspicions have been effectively confirmed.

If the site administrators of 911Blogger are not capable of maintaining basic standards of honesty and integrity there, they have only themselves to blame, when their site loses all credibility.

That's why I cleared out from 911Blogger ... I hope they come to their senses and clean shop.

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