Editing Boing Boing (section)

==Censorship==
''Boing Boing'' has been described as an "outspoken critic of censorship elsewhere",<ref name="bbFendsOffCharges">{{cite web | url=http://www.informationweek.com/government/information-management/boing-boing-fends-off-censorship-charges/229211050 | title=Boing Boing Fends Off Censorship Charges | work=[[InformationWeek]] | date=9 July 2008 | access-date=27 March 2012 | author=Wagner, Mitch}}</ref> and operates a high speed, high quality [[Tor (anonymity network)|Tor]] exit node.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.torproject.org/what-tor-supporter-looks-cory-doctorow/|title=This is What a Tor Supporter Looks Like: Cory Doctorow &#124; Tor Project|website=blog.torproject.org}}</ref> For example, the act of "[[disemvoweling]]" was popularized by the site—literally stripping out the vowels of any comment a moderator had taken exception to.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Online Communities Rot Without Daily Tending By Human Hands
|first=Xeni
|last=Jardin
|author-link=Xeni Jardin
|publisher=Edge
|work=The Edge Annual Question 2008
|year=2008
|url=http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_7.html#jardin
|access-date=6 October 2009
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|archive-date=22 April 2009
|url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|title=How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community
|url=http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=199600005
|first=Cory
|last=Doctorow
|author-link=Cory Doctorow
|work=[[InformationWeek]]
|publisher=TechWeb Business Technology Network
|date=14 May 2007
|access-date=15 May 2007
|archive-date=11 April 2011
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411061810/http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=199600005
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>

===Violet Blue controversy===
Sex blogger [[Violet Blue]] has been mentioned, interviewed and once contributed at ''Boing Boing''. On 23 June 2008, Blue posted on her blog, ''Tiny Nibbles'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tinynibbles.com/ | title=Tiny Nibbles | access-date=27 March 2012}}</ref> that all posts related to her had been deleted from ''Boing Boing'', without explanation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tomorrowmuseum.com/2008/06/28/william-gibson-completely-deleted-from-boingboing-archives/ | title=William Gibson Completely Deleted from BoingBoing Archives | work=Tomorrow Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212061112/http://tomorrowmuseum.com/2008/06/28/william-gibson-completely-deleted-from-boingboing-archives/|archive-date=12 December 2010}}</ref> The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' featured an interview that cast the silence on the part of ''Boing Boing'' on the matter as "inexplicable", causing a controversy as ''Boing Boing'' "has often presented itself as a stalwart of cultural openness".<ref>{{cite web|author=David Sarno | url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/06/violet-blue-scr.html | title=Violet Blue scratches her head over BoingBoing purge | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=30 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701164050/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/06/violet-blue-scr.html|archive-date=1 July 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://gawker.com/5021288/how-xeni-and-violets-boing-boing-affair-went-sour |title=How Xeni and Violet's Boing Boing affair went sour |work=[[Gawker]] |date=2 July 2008 |access-date=12 April 2009 |author=Thomas, Owen |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507173426/http://gawker.com/5021288/how-xeni-and-violets-boing-boing-affair-went-sour |archive-date=7 May 2009}}</ref> A heated debate ensued after a brief statement on the ''Boing Boing'' site regarding this action stated: "Violet behaved in a way that made us reconsider whether we wanted to lend her any credibility or associate with her. It's our blog and so we made an editorial decision, like we do every single day".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://boingboing.net/2008/07/01/that-violet-blue-thi.html | title=That Violet Blue thing | work=Boing Boing | date=1 July 2008 | author=Hayden, Teresa Nielsen}}</ref> In commentary attached to that blog entry, "many commenters surmised that they had something to do with Blue's suing to stop a [[Noname Jane|porn star]] from also using the name Violet Blue", and many commenters found the removal troubling, but Xeni Jardin said that she hoped she would not have to make the reasons public.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2008/07/09/blog-hits-nerve-in-excising-some-old-posts/ | title=Blog hits nerve in excising some old posts | work=[[Chicago Tribune]] | date=9 July 2008 | access-date=27 March 2012 | author=Johnson, Steve}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://gawker.com/5021146/ |title=Did the Internet's free-speech guardians try to hush up a girl-on-girl love affair? |work=Gawker |date=1 July 2008 |access-date=12 April 2009 |author=Grant, Melissa Gira |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015173614/http://gawker.com/5021146/ |archive-date=15 October 2011}}</ref>