If you don’t know who Violet Blue is, don’t worry. She’s just a sex blogger. Which is like a regular blogger, except even less interesting. But she’s known, in the circles where she’s known, for being affiliated with BoingBoing. You know, BoingBoing? The “directory of wonderful things”? The third most popular blog in the world? They’re the sort of people who you’d associate with the Internet, if you knew next to nothing about the Internet. Did you ever see the movie Hackers? The BoingBoing dorks are like that, except older and less plausible as actual humans.

They give a lot of lip service to “Information wants to be free” and other cliches, and they’re all like totally against censorship, man. Which is why it’s weird that BoingBoing has scrubbed almost all mention of Violet Blue from their archives. Most of the nearly 100 posts about her, and the accompanying links, are now gone. And as you know if you’re reading this, blogs need traffic like Will Smith needs attention.

BoingBoing hasn’t explained it at this point (beyond a vague and arrogant statement from BoingBoingers Teresa Nielsen Hayden and Xeni Jardin), but a blog called the Tomorrow Museum thinks it might be due to an SF Chronicle column Blue wrote slamming Amanda Congdon, yet another overhyped Internet “celebrity.” Valleywag has some other theories, if you’re still reading this far. Anyway, the point is: the Internet is no different than anything or anyplace else. It’s just faster.

Yes, I just wrote a whole blog post about another blog deleting posts about yet another blog. Don’t worry, I’ll come up with some more jokes about Jessica Simpson’s boobs before you know it.

P.S. If you’re still awake and haven’t slit your wrists, the LA Times has more about this nerdy nonstory here and here. And VB tries to figure out what she did wrong here.

P.P.S. Seth Finkelstein says it best: “For all the argument-Olympics of hairsplitting over rights, it all comes down to power, to might-makes-right. Boing Boing is not notable for extending charity and understanding to those they accuse of having committed ethical transgressions against openness and transparency.”

P.P.P.S. The story made today’s (7/6) New York Times.