I refer you to the comments thread of this week’s Dangerous Minds interview with Charles Johnson, of Little Green Footballs. This afternoon Charles linked to the interview from his popular blog and within a matter of minutes people were posting about the interview both there and here. Some pro, some con (I get compared to Sean Hannity for instance!), but some just nasty and fairly pointless, such as one item (since deleted by us and not at the request of Charles, either) which managed to slip in both a homophobic epithet and a not-so-veiled death threat!

Charming.

As Charles replied “Welcome to my world! These are exactly the people I was talking about in the interview.” I sent him the IP address and in a matter of minutes he tracked the guy down and found several instances of his email address posted online elsewhere.

Views were initially slow on this episode, but are trending upwards quickly. I’ll leave this up for another day before posting part 2.

It is entirely possible to disagree with Charles on the issues and post your disagreement without being banned. All you have to do is to make your post about the issue and not about Charles.

People are not banned for disagreement, they are banned for telling Charles what he should say, think, or post about in a very impolite fashion. They are banned for foul-mouthed trolling, and outright begging to be banned with their “Goodbye Cruel Blog” speeches.