We need to have a honest discussion about censorship on BP. We have a contributing author who demands and exercises the right to “ban” other contributing authors from commenting on ‘his’ threads. This, while continuing to spout distinctly one-eyed perspectives and cherry-picked regurgitated content.
Do we want BP to be a space with ‘dueling’ threads, or actual discourse? If Indians and Pakistanis can’t even manage a written conversation on a blog post via comments, without arbitrary petty ‘bans’ justified in the name of “I simply don’t like you” – this is the sort of thing that ends up having a disproportionate impact on the nature of what this space is.
Kabir has every right to moderate his own threads; that’s not in dispute. However, authors may not moderate admins; that is now clear policy.
BB’s conduct toward Kabir was genuinely reprehensible and warrants unambiguous condemnation. BB’s authorship is reinstated, but with one condition: he does not engage with Kabir in any capacity. Any reply to a Kabir comment or post results in immediate removal of all comments and authorship. No warnings.
Equally, Kabir is asked to disengage from BB entirely. If either takes issue with the other’s conduct, they write to the editors. These are BP policies, applied without exception.
We completely reject the anti-Pakistan bias claim; a quarter of our monthly visitors are from Pakistan.
I think giving death threats, harassing someone and posting racist nationalistic vitriol are good enough reasons to ban someone from your own threads, at the bare minimum. There’s freedom of speech but every platform and author has the right to establish their community guidelines.
I generally make it a point to stay away from RNJ’s threads but I’ll make an exception this once.
First of all, it is a settled principle on BP that authors have the right to manage their own threads the way they like. Let’s not open this up for negotiation again.
As El Khawaja pointed out, BB threatened to hold a gun to my head. That’s enough of a reason to ban him from my threads.
At the very least you (RNJ) should have called him out for making such an unconscionable threat. I can’t say I’m surprised that you didn’t.
yeah, I have done none of that, so that excuse isn’t really valid.
Kabir has every right to moderate his own threads; that’s not in dispute. However, authors may not moderate admins; that is now clear policy.
BB’s conduct toward Kabir was genuinely reprehensible and warrants unambiguous condemnation. BB’s authorship is reinstated, but with one condition: he does not engage with Kabir in any capacity. Any reply to a Kabir comment or post results in immediate removal of all comments and authorship. No warnings.
Equally, Kabir is asked to disengage from BB entirely. If either takes issue with the other’s conduct, they write to the editors. These are BP policies, applied without exception.
We completely reject the anti-Pakistan bias claim; a quarter of our monthly visitors are from Pakistan.
Thank you.
Let’s put this to bed now. Authors have the right to manage their threads the way they like.
Admin comments can’t be deleted.
Here is the relevant post for the record (so that I can’t be accused of imagining a threat of violence)
https://www.brownpundits.com/2026/03/29/on-dhurandhar-decorum-and-where-bp-draws-the-line/