This is the absolute best route to go. Making companies or the content controlling parties aware of the fact that they need to be more cautious and factual in their published/public posts. I hate to see someone get ringed for it.. but its time for Americans to stop being ignorant, and getting right to the root cause is the best way to do it. You can try to take down the author, however they are but one, in a sea of drowning sheep. If you take the Shepard out to sea, and make him see his drowning sheep.. Then we start getting somewhere. We can only hope the ignorant world has not turned these Shepard’s dumb, and seeing all these drowning sheep will turn on the light, sending them on a new path towards sweet,dry land.

I absolutely love your work Mr. Carrier. I have just barely learned today, about this case with Skepticon, while I was looking into maybe trying to buy a ticket to the next one. I however, was only going to buy a ticket in hopes you were speaking. I will not bother now that I see you have been banned. I hope you know that there are people on your side. There are still women in this world who are not feminists, nor support the movement. That is really what all of this boils down too, complainers needing complaints. I do dare to blame this, for the most part, on Feminism. People always need someone to blame when they feel they have been wronged. Or even if they personally, have not been wronged. No one is looking inward, asking themselves what they can do to change their reaction to the problem, instead attempting to ruin someone or slander their character o make themselves feel better. Happiness is found inside of ourselves, its not something that you have create out of madness.. it is in fact already here, all around us.

I do hope that you have not felt completely ruined, by ignorant, most incompetent, character assassination attempts. You are one of the most smart, relatable, bright human beings I have found during my research; and to be honest, some people are jealous or hurt by humans like you. Especially when they feel they have been rejected.. and in turn will jump on any train that sings the song of defamation towards that person. It is just unfortunate that we live in a time where companies, groups, governments, religious, and apathic cultures will do anything to make themselves seem.. “with it” or in your case “without it” just to save themselves from defamation, even if it has not been proven to be fact. How Ironic. What ever happened to Innocent until proven guilty? It does not exist in a case of a man sexually assaulting a woman.

It is extremely disappointing to me that a group of persons who hold an annual conference for free thinkers like Skepticon.. would play into this. It makes me question the motive behind it all. It makes me distrustful and un-easy by the thought them.

Know you are loved by many. Remember you are smart. Remember WHO you are. Remember what you DO. You are a truth speaker. You present facts. I do not see any reason why your skills in your work do not overlap into your personal life. It does not make sense to me.. but I also do not know you personally. I do know America, and I do see what is going these past few years. Sadly you are just one of many people this same thing is happening too. Where will the line be drawn if people like you do not fight back, where it counts. You work is important in so many different ways. The way that you carry out your work even teaches people how to critically think; how to find fact in a hurricane of lies and historical prevarication. Even if you cannot convince a person to completely renounce Jesus, you have planted a seed of “discovery how to” a pamphlet of instructions on how to dive deep into your personal questions and answers quest, showing how important it is to look at all sides of things. You help open wide, the narrow minds of the seekers who find you.

Thank you. Love and Light.
-Sonder Thoughts.

Thank you. That answers my question.

They both have statements on record that indicates that they engage in content control. And content control makes them liable, in the same fashion as, for example, the New York Times. The mere fact that FtB suspended my account demonstrates they engage in content control, as does the fact that they have and deployed an ethics committee to decide who can continue blogging there; they are therefore legally equivalent to a newspaper, and not to, for example, Facebook or Patheos. The Orbit likewise states that it is an operating collective that coordinates its activity among its content providers, and their providers run the network, which evinces similar content control responsibility; they also no doubt have the equivalent of an ethics committee; likewise on departing FtB one of their stated goals to us was to have more control over the network and who blogs there and on what. So unless they are willing to commit perjury, they can’t claim they aren’t collectively responsible for their network’s content. Nor do I think they would honestly try that, since it contradicts their values to claim disinterest in whether their members use the network for defaming other persons.

Sad. I was half expecting things at FtB to unravel when folk began decamping to the likes of Patheos. I didn’t understand why the Orbit was set up, unless those who did wanted their own echo-chamber. You give people generous shout-outs and welcomes and you get this?

PZ I don’t understand at all, he should get all this especially considering how careful he was with the Shermer ‘grenade’ of a while back. Perhaps he just pussys around the so-called powerful and thinks it is okay to punch down or across.

Whatever; his blog seems very cliquish, prone to groupthink, hearing only what they want to hear, and an echo-chamber. Small, isolated groups seem to fall into this mode without noticing and you find them turning on their colleagues. A road bump happens and suddenly for no reason you can work out they haven’t got your back and indeed want to turn the knife.

Hopefully these parties will come to their senses sooner rather than later, cease and desist, retract and apologise, and you can move on.

Speaking of moving, I hope your relocation across country has gone well and wish you all the best in your new home.
TTFN