With 13,600 posts over, to repeat, almost 20 years, we have been banned I think no more than five times (certainly less than 10 times) — in addition to guest writers asking that their guest posts be taken down out of fear of their being cancelled by society at large. But that is none of our responsibility; that is the doings, direct or indirect, of a society failing in free speech and vigorous debate (sometimes known as: the First Amendment) which this blog (hardly wrongly) wishes to describe (and, frankly, to denounce).
As we are responsible writers and journalists, and feel we behave responsibly, we have not felt any guilt, and we have counter-claimed, or are going to counter-claim (see point nr 2 below), all of the bans, previous and present.
But the problem with the November 2023 post is that it was not “unpublished”. And the post was not “reset to Draft status”. It was entirely removed and has totally vanished.
Unless we are mistaken, moreover, we never received an email in our gmail inbox informing us of a ban or even of a problem, as is Google’s custom.
[This is another reminder that it’s better to have an independent platform than to rely on Big Tech…
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