Taxacom: Censorship by a New Zealand museum

Tue Aug 9 17:52:14 CDT 2022

Stephen - I can agree (!) with what you say. I am probably just jousting at
windmills. Cheers, John

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 6:01 PM Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
wrote:

> 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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> >> Andy Mabbett
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> >>
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