On Line Opinion under attack at STRANGE TIMES

On Line Opinion under attack

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on February 7, 2011

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Graham Young the editor of On Line Opinion has just put up this piece: Wanted – new financial backers

Some people have organized a very effective advertising boycott because OLO published an article by religious conservative Bill Muellenberg against gay marriage. OLO is an important institution on the political landscape which publishes anyone regardless of where they are on the political spectrum

Read the article and do whatever you can to support them.

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1 keza
February 9, 2011 at 12:18 am

I notice that Larvatus Prodeo has been quick to distance itself from OnLine Opinion.

We do not share the views Mr Young puts forward in his article regarding free speech, the complaints of aggrieved parties and the decisions of advertisers (including ANZ and IBM), and we disagree with his views on the appropriate moderation of the comments thread in question. We have only been aware of this issue for a few days.

We recognise that Mr Young has a different approach to issues of acceptable and unacceptable speech, and we have no doubt that he has formed that approach in good faith. We cast no aspersions on his motivations and note OLO’s policy on the publication of offensive material. However, we wish to emphasise that his position and ours are completely separate and independent of each other.

LP takes a strong stand against the vilification of people based on sexual preference, and does not condone homophobic speech under any circumstances. LP’s comments policy can be found here.

LP also supports companies formulating a strong diversity and anti-discrimination policy, and acting in accordance with those values.

This statement has been posted because the name of this blog has been associated with On Line Opinion in discussion of this issue, because of the shared advertising. LP has been adversely impacted by all this, but we also believe that it needs to be understood that our reaction to that impact, and to the issues underlying the controversy, are different from those of Mr Young, and others who have written on this issue, such as Christopher Pearson.
2 Bill Kerr
February 13, 2011 at 8:07 am

Larvatus Prodeo:

“LP takes a strong stand against the vilification of people based on sexual preference, and does not condone homophobic speech under any circumstances”

Sinclair Davidson @ Catallaxy points out and documents that Larvatus Prodeo’s moral posture does not extend to racist comments directed at Noel Pearson (Occupying the moral high ground)
3 Arthur
February 15, 2011 at 3:07 am

What atheists believe:

Only very indirectly related to topic, but can’t see a better place to put it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHAXErCXXis&feature=player_embedded