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I assume that I write in a vacuum--that's what my page views say, at least. So you can imagine my surprise when I discovered my Woody Allen piece got viewed by way of Flipboard, the mobile news feed/aggregator.

I can't figure out how Flipboard came to direct people here but it hasn't been all good. On my lunch break, I went to the library and, as I tend to do, called up my blog. (I like to read it with fresh eyes and figure out what crimes of prose I've committed.)

It was filtered by the library for being adult-oriented.

I've never put any nude pictures on the site--I don't even think I've mentioned pornography (although I will at some point--I spent last weekend looking at the court decisions that allowed our current industry). Perhaps my links to Gruppo Sportivo songs were less than kosher.

But the Woody Allen piece was probably the trigger. I imagine that someone read it, didn't like it and reported me to some filtering company or another.

(There is also the possibility that having a blogspot address caused the filter, as happens sometimes. I'm not a paranoiac.)

With that in mind, let me link this:  Dylan Farrow's brother speaks out against mom Mia Farrow. Moses is the one child Allen shared with Farrow that hasn't spoken out against him. He is currently a family counselor.

From the People interview:

"Of course Woody did not molest my sister," says Moses, who is estranged from Farrow and many of his siblings and is close to Allen and Soon-Yi. "She loved him and looked forward to seeing him when he would visit. She never hid from him until our mother succeeded in creating the atmosphere of fear and hate towards him. The day in question, there were six or seven of us in the house. We were all in public rooms and no one, not my father or sister, was off in any private spaces. My mother was conveniently out shopping. I don’t know if my sister really believes she was molested or is trying to please her mother. Pleasing my mother was very powerful motivation because to be on her wrong side was horrible." 

"From an early age, my mother demanded obedience and I was often hit as a child. She went into unbridled rages if we angered her, which was intimidating at the very least and often horrifying, leaving us not knowing what she would do." 

Dylan responded:

"I will not see my family dragged down like this," she adds. "I can't stay silent when my family needs me and I will not abandon them like Soon-Yi and Moses. My brother is dead to me. My mother is so brave and so courageous and taught me what it means to be strong and brave and tell the truth even in the face of these monstrous lies." 

This case is not as clear-cut as some would have us believe.