Two days ago, I posted a comment in reply to Martin Varsavsky’s post, Fabricar vs Crear, as the first comment asked Martin to look at a particular thread in FON’s forums. The comment was critical of the way things are going at FON, here is a translation of it:

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Martin, I see that you are traveling a lot and promoting FON. But you should also listen to a bit to the people who are the base of FON. In essence, the founders. I was reading one of the forums and they [sic] changed my perception.

If you click on said link, you are greeted by a “no such thread exists message”. Only moderators can delete entire threads, so is this a case of blatant censorship by FON? I somehow doubt Matias would have posted a link to a thread that didn’t exist, so I wrote a comment about this, also telling Martin that if he indeed picked up the fon [sic] to call someone to have the offending thread deleted, he should also check the rest of the forums and get rid of a lot more of them.

Surprise surprise, the comment was not approved, and a couple of comments have appeared during these couple of days, so mine has been censored. It did not contain foul language, offensive wording, or anything that would cause rightful moderation on any respectful blog. I have to admit it was hard and to the point, a critic of the censorship.

I will ask Martin again, this time on my own blog, which he cannot censor: if every one of your users, the very people building FON’s infrastructure for you (and paying for it!), one day get fed up with FON blatantly ignoring them, and decide to turn off all their routers, what will you do? The result of this collective action would be FON instantly disappearing, zero coverage, zero revenue.

So, what will it be, coming down from the cloud and facing reality, or keeping on the “we are in beta, we are a small team, and we have problems but this is allowed because it is so-oh-web-two-dot-zero”, traveling around the world and making bold claims that later turn out to be hot air?