A couple of months ago, I posted a longish, rather dull piece about the Chicago Archdiocese revising its criteria for publicly listing which clergy have been credibly accused of abuse. I think we were all surprised - at least, I was - when, a week or two later, Jack reported that the post had somehow run afoul of the blog gods' spam guidelines and had been unpublished. We collectively scratched our heads for a day or two, and then, frankly, I forgot about it.
I was reminded of the incident this week when I read an interesting article about the so-called Twitter Files. It seems the Elon Musk regime is now sharing with favored journalists some internal Twitter correspondence showing how the former Twitter powers-that-be decided which tweets should be labeled as misleading, and which tweeters, right up to the former president of the United States, should be banned from the platform.
The article I've linked to in the previous paragraph does some in-depth reporting on the limitations and flaws of Twitter's decision-making. Besides being interesting in its own right, the piece reminded me of some of our speculation about how my sizzling (not!) post managed to be deemed unacceptable. So I revisited Jack's post and David's advice on the topic. Yesterday, I tweaked the post's content a little bit: I corrected some grammatical errors that, frankly, I should have fixed earlier; I shortened a few sentences; and I removed part of a long quote I had pasted from the Chicago archdioecesan newspaper's news story on the abuser list . Then I resubmitted the post.
And behold (as the Gospel writers say): apparently the post passes muster this time, and it's back on the site again. I was notified via email of the decision:
Hello,
We have re-evaluated the post titled "The Chicago Archdiocese now
reporting sex abuse by multiple categories of clergy" against Community
Guidelines https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy. Upon review, the post has
been reinstated. You may access the post at
http://newgathering.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-chicago-archdiocese-now-reporting.html.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
So while the mystery of how it came to be suppressed hasn't been entirely solved, it appears the tale of its exile has come to an end. I hope you're all able to sleep now.
