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MediaMax President: We didn’t censor you, it must have been Nirvanix

Autor tombassett

As any reader of this blog or the MediaMax Users Blog will know, internet news site Newsvine recently censored my articles about MediaMax/Nirvanix/Streamload at the behest of what they referred to as “the subject of the article”.

Of course, I backed them up on this site. You can read them here:

Anyway, there has been lots of discussion about this censorship over at the MediaMax users blog, and the president of MediaMax (Iverson) felt compelled to chime in. In his comment he denied anyone at MediaMax gave Newsvine the order to delete my article and said it must have been someone from Nirvanix. His quote:

MediaMax did not request that article or comments to be taken down - that is patently wrong. I can only assume someone from Nirvanix requested that but I have not confirmed with them yet.

I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt - although I don’t know why. So, now the blame falls squarely upon Nirvanix and Patrick Harr.

Mr. Harr - why do you feel the need to censor comments and articles critical of your service? And will this censorship carry on to the files you host? I mean, does Nirvanix reserve the right to delete any files that users are hosting with you, if anyone merely disagrees with them? What is your stand on freedom of speech?

It has been said that many employees from Streamload/MediaMax went over to Nirvanix. So now, the team that screwed the users over for a year, messing with their files, erasing or making them disappear, etc - is now in charge over at Nirvanix. And no longer content to simply screw over the users, they won’t be happy until they can censor all those critical of their enterprise.

To Mr. Iverson: It is disingenuous to say that none of those people ever worked for MediaMax, because MediaMax has only existed since July. Most users have known Streamload AS the MediaMax name because you changed the URL. This is why I use the title Streamload/MediaMax when discussing it, so people will know they are one and the same.

On the MediaMax users blog, Mr. Iverson invited any users interested to participate in a conference call with him. I say everyone should accept this offer en masse so that we might finally be allowed to question the people who have treated the users so poorly over this past year. Now if only Mr. Harr and Nirvanix would follow suit - they were also in charge during this past year at MediaMax and they share some of the blame - merely splitting off into their own company that is “affiliated” with MediaMax doesn’t absolve them.