> <i>Johnson’s response, in thousands of cases, was to block their accounts and ban some of them from viewing the blog. "Get off my Web site" was a common farewell. (Johnson insists that this is not true - that no one has ever been banned from L.G.F. merely for disagreeing with him - but the anecdotal evidence to the contrary is voluminous, and the fact that the offending comments were instantly and permanently deleted makes it impossible to check others’ records against his.)</i><p>> <i>Even longtime commenters have been disappeared for one wrong remark, or one too many, and when it comes to wondering where they went or why, a kind of fearful self-censorship obtains. He has banned readers because he has seen them commenting on other sites of which he does not approve.</i><p>His banning of anyone who disagrees with him is why LGF is also commonly nicknamed "the little green echo chamber" because only those who echo his sentiments are permitted to stay.
I never thought I would say this, but what does this his to do with HN? I come here to HN to get away from all the politics discussion everywhere else.
One <i>tiny</i> problem: Charles Johnson has never been a member of the "right wing". He's a liberal who's eyes were opened by 9/11, but as the jihadist threat receded he reverted to type.<p>It would be pretty silly to expect his "right-wing allies" to continue to be such when he attacks so many of them on such scurrilous grounds. I've only watched his feud with Stacy McCain, but that's enough for me.