Ann Althouse wasn't so lucky. As annoying as I find her, her blog is completely gone right now, and nobody deserves that kind of horrible luck. As an IT professional for a Fortune 500 company, I understand the problems of rolling out upgrades in an enterprise environment and watching them completely foul things up, then having to roll things back. Data gets damaged and has to be restored, and it takes a while...I know, it's my job to deal with things like that. Google is working to restore her blog. It happens and it sucks, but if anybody on Earth would have good data recovery/disaster recovery protocols, it's freaking Google.
That's not the point. The point is Althouse believes this was deliberate.
You know, I'm beginning to suspect that there's some behind-the-scenes campaign to report my blog as abusive. People who hate/fear the Althouse blog could make a loud noise to Google.
Moe Lane at Redstate declares it's now the new Right Wing Poutrage Of The Weekend.
Well, isn’t this interesting: apparently Blogger/Google has decided to remove Ann Althouse’s blog. They’re also being neither particularly helpful in either explaining why, nor sounding particularly sympathetic that it’s been taken down, either.
Wonder if this has anything to do with Ann’s objective (and thus, anti-administration) coverage of the Wisconsin protests? I certainly hope that it has nothing to do with that…
See, now it was deliberate. No mention of the massive crash that took down all blogs for 30 hours. Instapotatohead goes from there:
THE FOLKS AT GOOGLE don’t quite seem to understand the Althouse blog. Hey, guys, it’s not a spam blog. It’s been in the New York Times and everything. You should put it back up.
UPDATE: A reader emails with a link to a Save Ann Althouse’s Blog Facebook page.
See, now it was deliberate because "Google thought it was a spam blog". And now the Right Wing Noise Machine has gone fully automatic into "Google: Evil, Incompetent, Or Both?"...
...which was promptly foiled by Althouse's blog coming back in one piece later on Friday. So now law professor Althouse and law professor Instapotatohead are getting together and wondering if she should sue the pants off Google and of course Instapotatohead says "Go for it! Connect Four!"
And so, yet another RWNJ meme is born. Only the interference of these brave legal eagles stopped Google from secretly killing Althouse's blog. Conservatives have defeated Obama's techno-thug minions at Google with Real Ultimate Power or something. I'm sure the campaign to go Galt and abandon Blogger and "put them out of business" is already underway...
Paranoia is awesome. And the right? Man, they are swimming in it. Ann Althouse is the single most important voice in conservative blogging ever, so of course Google would mastermind a huge system outage to provide cover to remove her blog by "accident" because she's SO GODDAMN POWERFUL. She's been mentioned in the NY Times.
Hey wait, I've been mentioned in the NY Times. Holy hell, I'm part of this conspiracy! AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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