BIGPOND BIGBLOG, WHAT A JOKE!!!

Bigpond, Australia's biggest Internet service provider offer to there customers a free blog service to talk about current affairs & events.

This is the BigBlog advert;

"Hi fellow bloggers, we are looking for interesting blogs on today's topics and events which we intend to promote on the BigPond home page. We want to promote more interaction from the wider BigPond community and get more people coming to your blogs. So c'mon, start writing some interesting stuff and we'll promote it for you!"

So from that you would think that ALL of "today's topics and events" would be allowed on Bigpong BigBlog, but we were wrong, very wrong.

I tried to create a BigBlog that's similar to my Blog on blogger.com (which is by far the best blog service on the net)
I wanted a Gay Rights Blog which is a BIG topic that needs to be talked about, not banned from our rights of freedom to express our views.

When I typed in the words Gay & Lesbian a error message came up saying "ERROR the text contains the following naughty words "gay" "lesbian".
Which meant I wasn't able to create my blog, what a joke bigpond!!!!

I immediately made several complaints to Telstra, Bigpond and Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman to find out why? and will it be changed?

After whats seemed like dozens of phone calls to Bigpond found out that several customers of Bigpond Bigblog wrote letters in wanting the words "gay & lesbian" banned not allowed to be used on the site, and Bigpond added theses words to "naughty list or banned words list"

I think its a joke! That a few people complaining to have words added to a banned list, without any just reason or purpose. Except to promote and advocate homophobia, and make it even harder for Gay Rights in Australia.

However after making the complaint to Telstra they were extremely surprised and disappointed with Bigpond, and are still trying to find out why? and can it be changed?

It's surprising because Telstra and Bigpond are one of the biggest companies in Australia and are now saying its naughty and wrong to be Gay & Lesbian by banning those words.

If several customers wrote in wanting the words relating to any other race or minority group banned eg: Asian, Indian or any race or minority in Australia, there is no way they would ban theses words because its wrong.
So the same rules should apply to the Gay & Lesbian Community, racism or discriminating against minorities groups is WRONG and Bigpond shouldn't be allowed to advocate homophobia.

So I will keep bugging Bigpond till the words Gay & Lesbian are removed from that banned list and they make a public apologue to the Gay & Lesbian Community.
There are also a number of words that Bigpond don't ban, its very interesting I wont make them public just yet, because these words are not only suggesting illegal behaviour but extremely ugly.

Bigpond what a joke you should be ashamed!!!!!!!