Miep, a dear soul and faithful contributor to DK, has been banned.
I admit to negligence myself. I have checked on a regular basis to see if Miep had resumed posting after the Obamabots (ban my ass) ran her off, but it has been a few weeks since I last checked.
Now I see this on Miep's website. Check her username to see the Skull and Bones confirmed.
It surprises me not one bit that a cold-blooded Capitalist (and anti-feminist) like Kos would ban Miep, who is as far from being "a dick" as anyone could be, even as the essentially conformist, Establishment Kos defines it.
Long ago, folks, a lot of us made a big mistake of congregating at this blog and at two or three other profit-makers. That's water under the bridge.
The question is will we let the "owner," an aspiring 1%-er (and he is), continue to make a mockery of the values of open access for a variety of interesting voices? People are standing up to the banks by putting their bodies on the line. Can we stand up to a Capitalist bully by at least writing a few diaries? (Cue the "he owns it, if you don't like it, go somewhere else" crowd, same as JPM or GS would say.)
I'm not advocating a boycott. Instead, I'm inviting the friends of Miep to write diaries, lots of them, condemning this asinine act. Flood the Recents. And email Kos and other FP-ers.
I don't know all the details. I'm sure the site lawyer will show up and vaguely hint some bullshit, just like the banks, the politicians, the parties and the rest of them do.
I "know" Miep via this site. She's a sweet soul. Non-conformist. Blunt. Raunchy now and then. But if the readers of this site allow Kos to bully someone like Miep, then we suck just like he does.