Adam Smith spinning in his grave
The Adam Smith Institute Blog has always had a poor reputation for the way it handles critical comments, but now they have sunk to new depths, as Tim Lambert and Jim at Our Word is Our Weapon describe.
I have had comments of my own deleted in the past, I was banned from commenting for a while (and probably will be again after this!) but I have never come across anyone being prevented from viewing - I didn't even know it was technically possible.
They clearly couldn't cope with the criticisms and after first deleting the entire comment stream, they have now rewritten history and deleted the post itself - except of course they forgot about the Google Cache!
They manage to block the WayBack machine however.
For an organisation with such intellectual pretensions this is pretty damn poor.
God bless you, Ian, for tearing those contemptible, third-rate, authoritarian little chickenshits a new asshole. The Adam Smith estate should be suing them for defamation.
There's an old cliche the ASI should be reminded of: "you can run, but you can't hide."
What a bunch of gutless cowards!
Posted by: Kevin Carson | January 15, 2007 at 02:41 AM