Chuck Munson, "webmaster" (emperor) of infoshop.org, is engaged in increasingly heavy handed censorship of opposing anarchist view points on infoshop.org as shown by his censorship of criticisms of the arcticle Poor, White and Pissed. While the article probably does make some good points, it also contains some racist & sexist comments. Some people made posts in the comments area criticising that sexism & racism. Chuck responded by censoring those comments. The first, by Kirsten Anderberg, was removed and a note left stating it was removed for "politically correct" trollbaiting. "Political correctness" is what racists/sexists cry when someone calls them on their racism/sexism. Later posts, including mine, were simply erased without any kind of notice. They just disappeared. Kirsten e-mailed the author of the piece and his response more than confirmed that he's a sexist asshole. As critical comments kept getting made on the piece, Chuck banned all commenting on the article to insure no one could criticize it.
I posted a complaint about this to the infoshop forum but Chuck deleted it. I also send complaints to the infoshop sustainers list, but he refused to allow them to be posted and booted me from the list. Any criticism of Chuck or his moderation policies is not allowed in any infoshop-affiliated form, they are all censored.
This heavyhanded censorship authoritarian, sexist and completely unnacceptable. Please send him an e-mail chuck@mutualaid.org criticizing him for this. If he recieves enough negative feedback from this he might change his mind.
Kirsten has attempted to circumvent Chuck's censorship by sending out a series of e-mails, through her own personal list, criticizing his censorship. Below I have cut and paste some of these e-mails. There is some hyperbole in them, but they provide background info.