Point of order:
There is a huge difference between having his post get a lynch mob response -- that's democracy in action -- and being deleted by the PTB who own D|S (which it may or may not have been; I'm not clear about that now). If I start bashing some incompetent, corrupt American regime (hypothetical, of course) on a street corner, I'd be foolish to expect no adversarial responses. But I'd wonder where my country went if I got hustled off to some Cuban prison by government goons. It can't happen here, of course.

I think that's the point, really. Even Amazon "disappears" posts that aren't in its best interests financially. It's happened to me and I've talked with others who have experienced it as well. But by doing so, they undermine their own credibility as a "community." That is not how "communities" work; it's how feudal kingdoms, totalitarian states, and American companies work.

M