The text below is short but has links to the longer detailed history of Google's sudden and brutal censorship of No Pasarán. If you are old school and send your letter through the postal system, a one-page PDF briefly documenting Google's censorship is provided to download (still being written) and print out to include with your letter for background. Please feel free to copy or edit the text to best shape your personal message.
(Signed) The bloggers of
No Pasarán and Le Monde Watch
Dear [NAME of your correspondent],
I am writing to you about one of the most egregious examples of political censorship for the past 25 years, i.e., since the turn of the century.
On May 28, a popular Euro-American blog that has been on the internet for as many as 21 years was suddenly and without warning or explanation eviscerated by Google. The blog No Pasarán was unceremoniously banned by a member of Google's Blogger crew, without the courtesy of giving the slightest explanation why.
Not just one single (allegedly) offending post reset to "draft status", mind you (as per Google's own rules and its promise to its Blogger/Blogspot users) but over 14,000 posts — 21 years' worth of patient writing and thorough reporting — removed and destroyed once and for all.
As a No Pasarán reader, I was shocked. For two decades, I had relied on the blog as an indispensable source of pan-Atlantic news and opinion. And now it is gone.
The main details of Google's sudden and unwarranted de-platforming of No Pasarán from the internet can be found at the following link:
• "Google: It Is Time to Restore a Blog — and its 14,000 Posts — That You Have Harbored Without Problems for Over Two Decades."
According to Google's own rules and promises to its Blogger/Blogspot users, its gratuitous ban, along with its unwarranted destruction of 14,000 posts, can only be seen as a breach of good faith and fair dealing — not to mention political censorship.
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