We at VDARE.com have considered the Free Republic forum absurd for quite some years: VDARE was banned early on because Steve Sailer dared to discuss the racial differences in voting patterns, and for an ridiculous length of time FR's silly proprietor Jim Robinson tried to exclude all discussion of the immigration issue—even banning ALIPAC.

Now apparently, after a slight moderation, censorship is tightening up again: the redoubtable Larry Auster's View from the Right has been banned:

VFR BANNED AT FREE REPUBLIC

Harry Horse writes:

 “August 6, 2009: a black day for America” is one of your best essays. In fact, so good that I decided to post it at Free Republic, where I have been a member for maybe five years. . However, this is the response I got when trying to post your outstanding essay:

amnation.com not welcome on FR…

Stunned, Harry Horse

LA replies:

Thanks for trying. That’s the first time I recall that a publication that had banned me made the banning explicit. Usually such banners remain silent about what they’re doing.However, VFR articles have frequently been posted at FR over the years. Did VFR, which is an open book, recently cross some line it had not crossed before? It would be interesting to know what had triggered this new policy.

Allan Wall writes:

Regarding VFR's being banned from "Free Republic," welcome to the club. VDARE.COM articles have been banned there for years.

I personally was kicked off of "Free Republic" while I was doing a tour of duty in Iraq . How's that for supporting the troops? And when I say I was kicked off, I mean that I wasn't even allowed to participate in an online discussion under a pseudonym.

Tim W. writes:

FreeRepublic has been banning members for the past couple of months for expressing racially impure thoughts. Not for actual racism, but merely for arguing that race matters. If VFR is now banned there, it's probably because you discuss the ramifications of the loss of America's white majority, which is becoming a forbidden topic at FR. That's just speculation, of course.

LA replies:

I would have thought that FR has always banned people for saying that race matters, and that the ramifications of the loss of America's white majority was always a forbidden topic there.

Tim W. replies:

Yes, but they seem to have really cracked down in recent months. I think the election of Obama woke up a lot of "race blind" Freepers and prompted a bit more open discussion of these issues, which in turn prompted the moderators to start banning people and/or postings from websites such as VFR. As long as such issues only came up occasionally there was some tolerance for modest discussion of race issues. Not any more.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 08, 2009 12:05 PM

Happily, with the Obama administration increasingly emerging as a predatory rule by a coalition of minorities over White America, and as Pat Buchanan has noted, GOP leaders beginning to respond, Free Republic is simply burrowing deeper into the dustbin of history.

VDARE.com congratulates Larry Auster and View from the Right on being banned by FR. Next, a "hate group" accolade from the $PLC?

Addendum: Thanks, DR, who points out Larry Auster has already crossed swords with the SPLC with his customary vigor.