Taxacom: Censorship by a New Zealand museum

[Stephen Thorpe]

 John, This is just the way that the online world works. People or institutions put things up on the internet, with an open commenting facility, but they own and control the webpage, so they commonly "moderate" comments by allowing comments that they agree with and blocking comments that they disagree with. It is a universal strategy. At they end of the day, nobody really cares what Te Papa puts on its website. It can be a load of old rubbish. It might be frustrating to you if you think you know better, but you don't have to correct them on their own forum. You can either (1) just sit back and let them be wrong; or (2) find another forum on which to disagree with them. The problem with (2) is that another forum is unlikely to reach the same audience as the original forum. Hence, I suggest that we just have to learn to live in a world where all sorts of people and institutions are claiming all sorts of garbage in a variety of forums. Not much you can do about it, I'm afraid!Cheers, Stephen
    On Wednesday, 10 August 2022 at 05:24:34 am NZST, John Grehan via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:  
 
 And don't forget, this comes on the heels of the Royal Society of New
Zealand endorsing suppression and censorship of panbiogeography. New
Zealand is a small and relatively homogenous society where there is a
strong pressure for conformity to the prevailing milieu - which shows up in
its science.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 1:16 PM John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry Andy, but you are not correct. It is censorship by Te Papa. Of
> course Taxacom does not engage in censorship of scientific arguments. But
> Te Papa evidently does. Cheers, John
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 12:53 PM Andy Mabbett via Taxacom <
> taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 17:33, John Grehan via Taxacom
>> <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > Te Papa has refused to post this comment.
>>
>> This is not censorship. You are able to post your views here - at
>> length - as you have demonstrated, and presumably there is nothing and
>> no one preventing you from publishing them on your own blog or
>> website.
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