Last week, I was permanently banished from Toby’s Blues club without any reason extended to me. I figured that it was related to my previous blog where I wrote about a DJ ‘firing’ her boss Toby Howton, the co-owner of a Blues club of dubious authenticity.
Later, my guess was confirmed when a seemingly irate Toby sent me an IM telling me a to stop publishing ‘libellous bullshit’. He threatened me, ‘you will be revealed for what you truly are’.
Toby seems to be living on a monkey planet where an alpha monkey holds his group prominence over his harem members by grimacing at others. What seems amusing is that he and his cronies have got eject and ban buttons to play with and they seem to be delighted in doing so.
You don’t have to take my word for this. Walk into any Blues music club in SL and randomly ask people about Toby or his cronies. You will hear people sigh in disgust and feel sorry for Toby & Co.
It is clear Mr. Toby that you are not used to free speech and do not respect upright people who do not kowtow to you. Your actions speak volumes of the fragility of your ego. You want to stop people from speaking freely about what they think. You want to tell people what to wear and what to say. You may have some incongruous rules within the non-material boundaries of your club, but you DO NOT command what I think or say there or anywhere including this blog site.
In this complex and vast world, my existence may be of a ‘little man’ as you called me in your IM, but I believe one thing very clearly and strongly- censorship is unacceptable. To me, people enforcing their ideas by force and exercising banishment to show their power are in the same category as taliban. They are little, they are insignificant, and a bane for mankind.
A word of advice from me, Mr. Toby. Exercise your brain and write about your disagreement. I do not censor any comments here. I keep the comments button open on these blogs. But to do so, you need some courage and face the world.
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