Sunday, 8 July 2007

'PUNK' WEBSITES HAVE TRIED TO SILENCE AND CENSOR ZERO HOUR, WHAT SAD PETTY WANKERS.

It seems that a couple of 'punk' websites have been busy trying (nay, succeeding!) to silence ZERO HOUR, getting our membership's stopped, and even locking us out via our name when we tried to re-register, meaning that ZERO HOUR has been censored! and by the 'TRUEPUNK' and 'PUNKTALK' websites no less, we never used their sites to engage in insulting people or rumour mongering or even engaged in puerile slanging matches with 13 year olds like many members do, or offered up dumb lists of 'our ten favourite punk songs' (no offence to 13 yr olds, sorry.) or used it as a forum to slag anyone off, all we used it for was to advertise new articles on ZERO HOUR every so often, (ZERO HOUR DON'T EXPECT PEOPLE TO AGREE WITH, OR LIKE EVERY ARTICLE WE WRITE, BUT WE FEEL THAT IT IS THE INDIVIDUAL'S CHOICE TO MAKE, AND IS NOT THE PLACE OF OTHERS TO MAKE THAT DECISION FOR THEM).
but now, try as i may i find myself unable to log in to both sites and the 'user name' and 'password' are no longer recognised and even though i asked for a reason why i couldn't log in i got no answers back. now this is the sort of petty spite that characterised the bitching the 'first' wave bands used to engage in, but i thought punk had grown a bit since then, how wrong i am.
I'm wondering if it because instead of getting others to write (mostly puerile) 'articles' (i use the term 'article' very loosely) about "the chart of my favourite oi/punk bands/songs" or just let 'members' exchange insults, we have opinions of our own and they didn't like ZERO HOUR using their sites to express them.
While zero hour sees or feels no reason to defend its self we do think the odd insult or two deserves to be chucked their way! i mean what can you do when a so-called 'punk website' has locked another punk site out from being a member and wont even let it try and rejoin (thanks 'true'punk, it really shows your lack of commitment to free speech) and at the same time being too cowardly to give a reason?
Is it because ZERO HOUR is trying to come up with its own ideas and articles and doesn't rely on the boring, dull short opinions about "what is the best punk song ever?" to fill the site out rather than have the sites 'people' think for themselves and spend some time writing about punk and the everyday world that it has come into contact with (and the hilarious/horrible consequences of that contact)?
ZERO HOUR feels that it has come across something it didn't expect from other 'punk' sites, something that we can only call censorship, pettiness, spite and opposition to free speech, and we didn't realise just how organised the punk police really were, but seeing how ZERO HOUR now has 'punk' websites trying to silence us we now know,
While discussing this turn of events it was put to us that the websites had locked us out because we took the piss out of the shiny blink 142 wristwatches the site runners probably wore with pride! and as a swap for a large page advert for one of their 'scooby doo' music singles (although I'm sure they didn't take a bribe, but got them like good little boys through the fan club), and another suggested that it was because we mentioned that one site featured an advert that used a wet bikini wearing porn actress to sell a mundane product like mobile phones (making a possible suggestion/accusation that the site was sexist, when in fact we were commenting on how the site had bowed to the power of the $ in exchange for putting up lame ads that took up a third of the opening page and gave the site a corporate look) which I'm sure (ahem) is also untrue.
All ZERO HOUR has lost is two sites we used to advertise new articles we had written once in a while, and have gained some great publicity for the site in the future.
so a big thanks to those so called 'punk websites' for showing us their real narrow ideas of punk as they see it, and for not only giving us the opportunity to take the piss out of you like we wanted but couldn't because we were using you as avert space (as well as having fun with some of the more puerile topics for fun!), and for giving us fuel to feed the promotional fire that we are trying to build.
And what could be better publicity than "the punk blogzine that other 'punk websites' tried to censor" as a line for future adverts?
i will end this by wishing that all punk sites that try to stifle free speech in the future don't have a long shelf life and that the rats leave the sinking ships soon.
punk censors? you have got to laugh.
i also would welcome any replies from the aforementioned websites regarding what i wrote about above and read your side of the story, after all ZERO HOUR deserves to know why it is being subject to censorship from members of the punk police running the websites. -i dare you!
or are you both 'agent provocateur websites' created by the u.s government to try and spy on the punk community?
ZERO HOUR is open to you to give a reply to anything written above.
(a copy of this article will be sent to both websites)

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