A wonderful headline malfunction at the Telegraph, in their story about the Dawkins Forum dustup, where the discussion forums at richarddawkins.net have been summarily suspended and made “read only”.
My take is that the Telegraph is rushing to catch up with a “religion” story that the Times got hold of first. Ruth Gledhill already had an interview with Richard Dawkins done before it even appeared on the Telegraph website.
They all seem to have got the wrong end of the stick in several respects, including Richard Dawkins himself, and are playing the “nasty rotten horrible anonymous internet culture” tune. Further, newspapers seem to have invented an intra-atheist culture war where one doesn’t exist, albeit based partially on Richard Dawkins’ own misapprehensions.
The actual history is well summarised by blogposts by former moderators Pete Harrison, Jerome23 and Darkchilde.
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