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	<title>Comments on: Answerbag sold to Demand Media.  Google buys some online video site</title>
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		<title>By: Art</title>
		<link>http://joeldowns.com/2006/10/10/answerbag-sold-to-demand-media-google-buys-some-online-video-site/#comment-55</link>
		<dc:creator>Art</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Joel.  Great website you created.  I had some Answers, Questions, And Comments, removed (on Answerbag).  I answered some questions, that pointed out that censorship leads to genocide, mass murder, rape, property confiscation, and tyranny.

A person can have a different opinion, the difference is that my opinion is backed up by history over and over and over again.  No one ever at Answerbag ever attacked that basic truth or argued against it.  Instead there was a hysterical barrage of ad hominem attacks.

It was incessant and relentless, and it was led by staff Of Answerbag, because they delete what Authors write, capriciously, and with malice, and with bias, and with prejudice.  Instead of admitting how evil censorship is, they instead, endorsed the fallacy that if someone somewhere sometime in some mood is ever in any way &quot;offended&quot; at something, then censor  it in &quot;knee jerk&quot; fashion.  Is this the way to run a website?

You created a master piece.  A work of Art.  A great blessing for all mankind.  And these Censors on Answerbag are destroying the wonderful thing that you created.  Because that is what censors do.

And so they have banned me from the the website, not because I wrote anything evil.  But because I spoke up for civil rights and against censorship, or for freedom of religion, and freedom of conscious for each and every human. And they being in league with the darkside, disparaged everything I wrote against censorship and in favor of civil rights for all mankind.

Joel, those that came after you are turning what you created into a monster.  A propaganda monster is the most dangerous of all monsters.  The one thing that will ensure that Genocides and such things never happen again, is freedom of speech.  And the Answerbag censors, have censored even that.  God help us all.



Good luck.   And God bless.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Joel.  Great website you created.  I had some Answers, Questions, And Comments, removed (on Answerbag).  I answered some questions, that pointed out that censorship leads to genocide, mass murder, rape, property confiscation, and tyranny.</p>
<p>A person can have a different opinion, the difference is that my opinion is backed up by history over and over and over again.  No one ever at Answerbag ever attacked that basic truth or argued against it.  Instead there was a hysterical barrage of ad hominem attacks.</p>
<p>It was incessant and relentless, and it was led by staff Of Answerbag, because they delete what Authors write, capriciously, and with malice, and with bias, and with prejudice.  Instead of admitting how evil censorship is, they instead, endorsed the fallacy that if someone somewhere sometime in some mood is ever in any way &#8220;offended&#8221; at something, then censor  it in &#8220;knee jerk&#8221; fashion.  Is this the way to run a website?</p>
<p>You created a master piece.  A work of Art.  A great blessing for all mankind.  And these Censors on Answerbag are destroying the wonderful thing that you created.  Because that is what censors do.</p>
<p>And so they have banned me from the the website, not because I wrote anything evil.  But because I spoke up for civil rights and against censorship, or for freedom of religion, and freedom of conscious for each and every human. And they being in league with the darkside, disparaged everything I wrote against censorship and in favor of civil rights for all mankind.</p>
<p>Joel, those that came after you are turning what you created into a monster.  A propaganda monster is the most dangerous of all monsters.  The one thing that will ensure that Genocides and such things never happen again, is freedom of speech.  And the Answerbag censors, have censored even that.  God help us all.</p>
<p>Good luck.   And God bless.</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
		<link>http://joeldowns.com/2006/10/10/answerbag-sold-to-demand-media-google-buys-some-online-video-site/#comment-54</link>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Joel,
When you owned the site, was it hard to make money consistently from advertisers, even using a tool like google adsense?

Did you have a dedicated advertising sales team to bring in revenue, or was it harder than they make it look in the business magazines?

When you sold out to ISHM, did you get a good deal or was it basically a steady job?

Did you retain any stock options and do you benefit when ISHM sold to DemandMedia in terms of someday getting rich if DM can flip it? I sure hope so.

Oh and who did the redesign of AB? It looks awesome. Is that internal staff at AB / DM or was it outsourced?

If you could share some business lessons that you learned, you would be helping many aspiring and perspiring entreprenuers.  Or should I post these questions on AB?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Joel,<br />
When you owned the site, was it hard to make money consistently from advertisers, even using a tool like google adsense?</p>
<p>Did you have a dedicated advertising sales team to bring in revenue, or was it harder than they make it look in the business magazines?</p>
<p>When you sold out to ISHM, did you get a good deal or was it basically a steady job?</p>
<p>Did you retain any stock options and do you benefit when ISHM sold to DemandMedia in terms of someday getting rich if DM can flip it? I sure hope so.</p>
<p>Oh and who did the redesign of AB? It looks awesome. Is that internal staff at AB / DM or was it outsourced?</p>
<p>If you could share some business lessons that you learned, you would be helping many aspiring and perspiring entreprenuers.  Or should I post these questions on AB?</p>
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		<title>By: Mom</title>
		<link>http://joeldowns.com/2006/10/10/answerbag-sold-to-demand-media-google-buys-some-online-video-site/#comment-53</link>
		<dc:creator>Mom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So, where are the dancing cats?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, where are the dancing cats?</p>
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		<title>By: Case</title>
		<link>http://joeldowns.com/2006/10/10/answerbag-sold-to-demand-media-google-buys-some-online-video-site/#comment-52</link>
		<dc:creator>Case</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In fact, the copyright infringement may be the very reason that Google purchased YouTube!  Both of the properties share a lot of the fundamental defense centered around fair use.  If YouTube did get sued and lost (or even settled) it would create a precedent that Google would have a harder time fighting in court.  Now Google can defend fair use lawsuits with it&#039;s full might rather than potentially having to fight multiple precedents from YouTube settling cases to avoid litigation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In fact, the copyright infringement may be the very reason that Google purchased YouTube!  Both of the properties share a lot of the fundamental defense centered around fair use.  If YouTube did get sued and lost (or even settled) it would create a precedent that Google would have a harder time fighting in court.  Now Google can defend fair use lawsuits with it&#8217;s full might rather than potentially having to fight multiple precedents from YouTube settling cases to avoid litigation.</p>
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