By: Bitethehand

Bitethehand
Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:10:56 +0000

In reply to k tojo.

“So you’ve come to Spiked to bemoan the censorship routinely practiced by the anti-Spiked: The Guardian”…

No and ‘spiked’ is all lower case as you don’t seem to have noticed.

I can’t recall when or how I stumbled across spiked but the first time I mentioned spiked in a Comment is Free article was on June 9th 2011 and most recently on the 3rd January 2022.

Between those two dates I posted links to spiked articles 73 times, with this being from the first:

“The survey found that 34 per cent of people said that a woman is partially or totally responsible for being raped if she has behaved in a flirtatious manner; 26 per cent apparently thought she was responsible if she was wearing sexy or revealing clothing; and 22 per cent gave the same view if a woman had had many sexual partners. In all cases, a far larger proportion plumped for ‘partially’ over ‘totally’ responsible – this broke down as 26 per cent and four per cent in the case of drunkenness; and 28 per cent and six per cent in the case of flirtatiousness. There was little difference between men and women’s answers to these questions”.

The link I have to the first article no longer works.

And this being from the last:

“Where films, books, plays, music, food, travel etc are concerned I tend to take notice of better informed critics and commentators, particularly those whose political views I appreciate. That’s why I quoted one.

/2022/01/01/the-unbearable-smugness-of-the-netflix-elites/

This probably contributed to my being banned from commenting on Comment is Free fifty times. The other reason was pointing how the editor of the Guardian had handed editorial control to faceless and nameless moderators.