Censorship on DeafRead

 

I remember reading a comment from DeafRead’s founder, Tayler Mayer, where he claims that DeafRead is all about neutrality and that blog entries are published on DeafRead in an unbiased manner.

Well apparently, that’s not the case. Instead of allowing for healthy discourse on the subject, the DeafRead editors appear to have decided not to publish my last entry which questions their ethics in participating in a contest they are running. This blatant censorship is shameful. It makes me wonder how much censorship goes on at DeafRead.

Let’s face it. We’ve given too much power to DeafRead. They currently have way too much control over our Deaf blogosphere. They can suppress dissent and easily block information and ideas at their whim. We all have enough oppression in our lives. We don’t need it from DeafRead, too.

Like it or not, DeafRead currently has a monopoly on our Deaf blogosphere. It’s time for our community to come up with alternatives to DeafRead. DeafRead should not be the only place we obtain our news from and we should have other means of connecting with other Deaf bloggers.

Wouldn’t it be great if someone came along and created something better than DeafRead that celebrates free speech, sans all the egos, ads, and b.s.? If you have the technical know-how, please step forward. We need your expertise. We need more choices and alternatives. Most of all, we need more people who truly believe in free speech and who do not simply give it lip service.