More Silencing at Golden Silents

Newer members of Golden Silents Message Board have written in telling me that instead of being outright banned, instead they have been locked out with a sneaky password change on the administrator's end.

Golden Silents also touts this new header: Currently this is a private board and is not accepting new members at this time. Sorry, please try again in the future. - Jill, Administrator

So much for free speech!

Historian Thad Komorowski: Banned

Noted animation historian and critic Thad Komorowski has now been banned from Golden Silents. All Thad did was post a link to this blog. The thread was deleted, and that was that. But apparently providing an image of the now-gone thread was too much for Jill, so a few hours later, Thad found himself banned. Too bad they will not have your expertise, Thad!

Update from "Sumit"

Banned member "Sumit" has emailed me and thankfully saved the text from his post at the Golden Silents "Welcome New Members" thread. It read as follows:

Hello friends,

In my old country we see the old mute films over the air waves. Me and friends would have to make up voices for people in the movies.

I will pray to lord Vishnu that I am welcome on this web site.

good luck bros


Thank you for sharing, Sumit. (Warning--sarcasm to follow) How harmful of you, Sumit! :-)

Censorship runs rampant at Golden Silents

A fellow member came across this blog and apparently posted a thread about it over at the forum.

Guess what, his thread is now GONE! Who would have thought?

Thanks for the heads up, "Thad"

"TMK" Tim, please come forward!

I found this while searching old blogs.

tmk said...

I was banned from Golden Silents a few months ago. I had the audacity to call Jill on her defense of McCarthyism. I honestly think that she is actually losing her marbles! I still occassionally read the posts there, just to see what weirdness she's currently peddling. This morning she topped herself! It caused a backlash from even some of her longtime members; one (damfino) even cancelled her membership! That thread had been removed by late afternoon.

Tim

Andrew's Story

A former Golden Silents member came across this blog and wanted to share his story.

"Ddhandarah" joined in December 2007 and tells me he contributed a lot to the board.





"DD" was 'controversial' from the start. Here he is, among others, sharing his personal opinions and being poo-pooed for it.







and...







So what got Ddhandarah banned? Apparently... "asking why a youtube video of a song from the Howl's Moving Castle soundtrack was "amateurish""
Where is the logic in that, asks Nan?





Funny anecdote on the side: DD read my story about Sumit and has this to say in his email as well... "i'm half korean and i still can't tell the difference between some asians". This proves my hunch that it could only have been prejudice that got Sumit banned.

I could not log in after this:

Apparently an Asian man named Sumit joined the forums and posted a few things while I was offline. The reaction by the forum disturbed me a bit. I posted in-between the two posts from Jill, it has now been deleted. I simply asked "What happened?".



The thread continues:

Clearly the man could not speak English well. When other languages are translated into English, obviously the "tone" is lost... Should that segregate him?









Sadly, the following posts no longer exist:

Jill:
He actually had me laughing like crazy with those posts but I suspected that after 100 posts praying to Vishnu and ending in "good luck, bro" that everyone would be ready for the kill.

And I knew he was a fake too because he couldn't tell that the little boy in the YouTube video playing the uke and singing I'm Yours (which has close to 10 million hits on it!) was Japanese. Anyone supposedly from Asia could tell that. He said he was Chinese. Red flags went up. After watching 2 trillion Japanese films this year I recognize a Japanese person a mile away.

Nan:
Not everyone has seen 100 Japanese films and can tell the difference. There are many areas of asia, where people look black or indian. I don't think all Asians would know what each other looks like
Maybe this person just could not communicate clearly?

Link to Post - Back to Top Logged

What time is it kids....IT'S HOWDY DOODY TIME!
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I could not log in after this. Could I have been banned for defending someone's ethnicity? If you read between the lines, there is an air of racism in this situation. I urge Sumit to come forward and tell his story.