[UPDATE: The List moderator has emailed me and clarified a few things. It appears that this is more a case of inept moderation than an agenda. David is an employee of Daniel Thompson, who Mr. Thompson assigned to handle the moderation of the group. They have still exhibited an resistance to transparency concerning political connections and bias. Apologies to Greg Soter who I suggested might be involved. I now have no reason to believe that such is the case. Part of the ineptitude of the moderation involved not reading any email sent in private to the moderator email address, and that is why I never received a response to my remonstration. The moderator accidentally deleted a handful of posts when he intended to approve them. A better solution is on its way. Stay tuned.]

Something fishy is going on.

On April 4th I posted about the email debate taking place between delegates in my inbox. On April 6th, a comment was posted on my blog by someone calling himself “David” introducing a new email group, hosted at Yahoo! Groups, for Republican Delegates in Utah County.

Microsoft has apparently shut down the blog of a Chinese journalist named Zhao Jing (aka Michael Anti) that was hosted on its MSN Spaces blog service because of subject matter critical of the authoritarian Chinese government. Former TV reporter Rebecca MacKinnon has posted the details on her blog. Included with her analysis is this fascinating insight: