The controversy on boingboing existed because they refused to say why they removed the link. I don't think the secret is that evil -- I strongly suspect it was

The controversy on boingboing existed because they refused to say why they removed the link. I don't think the secret is that evil -- I strongly suspect it was done to placate advertisers in general. Advertisers don't like links to porn. Boingboing makes an enormous amount of money so they want to keep advertiseres happy. They should have just said so instead of keeping it a secret. At least I'm hoping it was that reason and not because of a personal feud Xeni had. I've thought about installing a no-Xeni greasemonkey script but she does post some good things...