The triumph of capitalism
Friday December 30, 2005; part of: Net stories

Scott Rosenberg reports that you can't even mention the words "socialist" or "Socialism" in comments on Salon blogs any more. For why? It's the Scunthorpe problem: the words contain a brand name for a viagra-type medication -- cialis. So the unresticted global capitalism of the spammers' economy has finally made it impossible even to mention an alternative.

Posted by andrewb at December 30, 2005 11:44 AM
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Would this be Adam Smith's invisible hand job at work?

Posted by: RupertG on December 30, 2005 10:01 PM

A problem it was, but a transitory one. Once we found out the problem and relayed it to Userland they tweaked the spam-detection settings, and our blog comments are now once more a free-speech-on-socialism zone...

Posted by: Scott Rosenberg on December 31, 2005 07:38 AM

A problem it was, but a transitory one. Once we found out the problem and relayed it to Userland they tweaked the spam-detection settings, and our blog comments are now once more a free-speech zone. On the other hand, I just tried to post This comment using the, er, once-forbidden word and it was rejected by your server! I'm trying again, once more, minus the potentially offensive noun describing a certain collectivist ideology...

Posted by: Scott Rosenberg on December 31, 2005 07:39 AM

Oh, never mind. The server gave me an error message but it looks like I wound up with a mutated double post.

Posted by: Scott Rosenberg on December 31, 2005 07:41 AM

Stupid MT Error page now in place. Happy New Year!

Posted by: acb on December 31, 2005 02:17 PM

"Almost certainly your has comment been posted,"

You might want to change that part.

Oh, and Happy New Year!

Posted by: David Weman on December 31, 2005 04:37 PM

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