[Reader-list] "Second Thoughts" censorship on Kafila.org

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Shivam
 
Your answer is as pathetic as the Anti-India propaganda in some of your postings.
 
My comment was published on the site and subsequently censored out. Censored out by you as you have admitted. Censored out after it was approved for publication by whoever first Moderated my comment and let it be published. 
 
My comment did not get posted on KAFILA by hacking. The comment followed the 'due process' in the PRIVATE KAFILA for approval of comments submitted. It got posted. You censored it out. 
 
You need to expand your understanding of 'censorship'. It includes the 'deletion" of communicative/communicated material. 
 
If your narrow interpretation is taken that "censorship" is an excercise only by the "State", then you acted as the "State". The "State" censors on the basis of what it thinks are justifiable reasons. What were your reasons for the "censoring"? Just a dictatorial and authoritarian whim? 
 
Is this how insecure you are about being contested/critiqued on some of the nonsense you write/propagate?
 
 
Kshmendra
 


--- On Wed, 12/24/08, Shivam V <lists at shivamvij.com> wrote:

From: Shivam V <lists at shivamvij.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] "Second Thoughts" censorship on Kafila.org
To: kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com
Cc: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 4:58 PM

Dear Kshmendra,

There's a difference between censorship and moderation. Censorship
would be if you were to start a blog that the state orders to be
blocked, for instance. But Kafila is owned privately, and as such I
have the prerogative to delete/appprove/approve-then-delete your
comment. Rights of admission reserved.

best
shivam

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I posted a comment yesterday (23/12/2008) on Kafila.org. The comment was
on a posting by Shivam Vij "A cruel joke called elections in Kashmir"
that had appeared on this List also.
>
> Comments on KAFILA have to be approved by the Moderator(s). It was
approved and my comment appeared on the KAFILA website. That was yesterday.
>
> Today I found that my comment has been deleted. Interesting.
>
> I wonder what led to this 'second thoughts' censorship.
>
> Kshmendra
>
>
>
>
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