[quote=“seanodonnell, post:251, topic:56986, full:true”]
The tone of boingboing has definitely changed in recent times. In particular, there is a fairly large and consistent pushing of feminist propaganda, with those who might disagree with the points raised getting dogpiled and censored[/quote]
Inasfar as comment moderation is censorship (or the inherent groupthink of an internet community is censorship), we here have been “censoring” one another a lot longer than recent times. The idea that you might be familiar with Boing Boing without a corresponding knowledge of our years of ruthless, cutthroat censorship — unthinkable!
Alas, no, you just didn’t care to notice them. Here’s one from May, 2010:
Here’s feminist propaganda for every year since I’ve been here:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/09/15/verizons-mildly-sexi.html
And of course these are just a handful I could remember or which were tagged with relevant terms.
“Very funny commentary on online sexism, especially as practiced in the techier corners of the net,” wrote Cory about a decade ago, encountering XKCD for the first(?) time.
What’s changed is that these issues have stopped being marginal or academic, and become a front line in America’s mainstream culture wars. I imagine that most of the editors here might be proud of what small contributions we made to helping things get that way.
It’s likely true that it’s posted about more frequently—but there’s a lot more to talk about.
Boing Boing has always published stuff like this, and comments like yours have always been posted by people when they suddenly realize it.
Even your tone of sighing disappointment is part of the legend!
/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ptOCAuEHRqu3jCpE7ThBwHdl1CfEHcevDnVz_abTxvg/edit
You didn’t use the word “disappointed”, however, so are ineligible for the list of people who are disappointed in Boing Boing.
