The Establishment Strikes Back

The WayneWho staff would like to start off by apologizing for that lack of posts of the past week. We were the victim of an alleged attempt to be removed from cyberspace by those who find our brand of un-news past the line of what many Americans would call "Freedom of Speech". It seems that the establishment enjoys being able to apply more control to the process of educating the public with veiws that it approves. WayneWho does not seem to fit into this category.

On the morning of April 30 as we were about to post on the boring city commission meeting, we discovered that the WayneWho blog had been locked and would not allow us to post new articles. We were still able to post comments, but that was all. It seems that complaints about our blog had been received by Blogger (Google) which takes all complaints seriously and locked down the WayneWho blog for further review. Yes, someone had complained that our un-news was just too much for the clean and pristeen Internet audience (especially those in Osceola county) to handle.

The review process itself was simple even if it was slow moving. Blogger asked for some evidence and the WayneWho staff provided the requested information using sources where needed. Interestingly enough during this review process, the views to our YouTube videos jumped by quite a bit, but we heard little about the review. We waited, and hoped we would be able to continue providing our fans the un-news that they had come to expect over the past year.

During our cyber time-out we wondered who could have launched an investigation like this? Was it a School Board Member who refuses to apologize to the working class of our community, who now thinks he is county commission material? Was it a certian developer with his school board member chimp on chain that will stop at nothing to build his government subsidized housing project somewhere in this community? Could it be other advertising based local media outlets that continue to republish any press releases received from local governments? Or maybe it was a remote blogger that once lived in our community who now seems to work as a spokesperson for many campaigns in the area? We may never know who or what triggered the lockdown or why. We do know that as long as there are those who seek an un-news source, there are those of us who will work to provide it.

And then as unexpectedly as the embargo begain, it was lifted. Control was returned to our blog and the message of a pending review disappeared. Blogger it seems realized that the claims were false, or that un-news is what is needed to add balance to what some refer to as news. Regardless of the larger scope of the establishment complaints about the WayneWho brand of un-news, we are just glad to be able to post once again. We would dare say the time out has allowed us time to dig even deeper into issues we were having a hard time covering. Without this break, we probably would not have had the time to do the necessary research, so we would like to thank those who gave us this extra time and motivation.

To wrap this one up, we would like to again thank our loyal readers.