AB's blog a politics-free zone, why is it so? Update II

I received an email from my Aunt who is concerned with Bolt's "Politics Free Zone" posted today.

This is very odd. Gillard phoned News Corp about Glenn Milne article which was subsequently removed from the Australian website. It is being reported she threatened legal action. If Bolt is being silenced and Milne then we should all be very worried about the abuse of censorship!!

Will Tim Blair be next?

Bolt had a piece on his blog with extracts (scanned) of an affidavit from a union official which outlined the crooked goings on in the union.

Catallaxy has had items about this recently… see links below.

It has been redacted from Bolt's site. (See Bunyipitude link below…)

http://bunyipitude.blogspot.com/2011/08/learned-friends-baffled-readers.html

UPDATE: Andrew Bolt’s post, up since the weekend, also has been redacted, despite many thousands of people having read the now-excised portions. The bits vanished are from the affadavit.

On the radio front, 2UE’s Michael Smith appears also to have had something resembling a lawyer’s hand clamped over his mouth – although this broadcast remains available.

Parliament, however, cannot be gagged nor Hansard trimmed of potentially embarrassing material. Readers curious to learn more about the lifestyles of other Fitzroy residents should go here. Make a point not to have a sharp object under the chin because the reference to $17,000 worth of dresses from Town Mode is guaranteed to make the jaw drop.

Oh, and well worth checking out is Catallaxy’s thread.

http://catallaxyfiles.com/2011/08/30/who-is-trynna-control-the-news/

http://catallaxyfiles.com/2011/08/29/censorship-at-the-oz/

http://catallaxyfiles.com/2011/08/29/censorship-at-allen-unwin/

(Sorry, no time to format prettily or add too much in the way of comment from me.)

Update:
Ben Fordham interview with Andrew Bolt and Paul Howes.

Update II:
Another Bunyipitude piece. http://bunyipitude.blogspot.com/2011/08/from-retreat-to-rout.html in Prof Bunyip's piece he links to all right all right for this: http://allrightallright.blogspot.com/2011/08/another-story-you-may-not-read.html.

Government censorship!

THE Rudd Government has been accused of censoring voter handouts which are critical of controversial programs such as its $42 billion economic stimulus package.

In a move that has incensed MPs, Commonwealth bureaucrats are exploiting new laws that allow them to ban newsletters being sent to voters.

Using Orwellian-type powers, they are putting a black mark through words such as "dreadful", "mismanagement" and "incompetence" - declaring they can no longer be used because they criticise government policy.

The new laws which came into effect on October 1 deliver a big advantage to the Government in the election year.

Senior ministers are even able to access material from Coalition MPs and the minor parties before they are mailed to voters.

The crackdown follows the Auditor-General's criticism of the $300 million parliamentary entitlements scheme.

No access to Hansard? from Piers Akerman.

Looking at a few of the left leaning, almost touching the floor blogs it seems that this is no biggie. It's passed off as nothing because Piers has reported it. Others say it's the same as the censorship that they suffered under the Howard government (Oh. Good. Grief!).

Well, quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised. Rudd's such an admirer of China.

He'd do so well in the UN.

Billboards Banned

OK. Remember these "longer lasting sex" billboards around Brisbane?

They've been banned.

Sex billboard, with just words, has been banned.

I'm fine with that.

I wonder if the people calling for the banning of the billboards have done anything about the child abuse happening in our schools with children being brainwashed about AGW and so on. And do they let their children watch the news programmes? Surely, that's more damaging than any old billboard with just words on it.