I discovered your post… two years later, while searching for information about a certain blog-plugin that someone uses in a WordPress blog to implement a similar function as the one you called “In space nobody can hear you scream”.

Evidently, if people whose political views (expressed decently and respectfully) annoy the political agenda of a certain blog, such a technical trick can ban them without (them) even noticing it; deceiving them that they participate in dialog, whereas in reality they only take part in a severely biased, censored kind of “pseudo-debate”.

Please remember that there do exist places in the world (and the web) where decency and freedom of expression are NOT self-evident, and the “problem users” are not always spammers or annoying people. On the contrary, they can often be quite normal, usually polite people, with views that happen to _annoy certain others_.

The wider social implications of all this are mind-chilling, to say the least. E.g. there already exist (e.g. Greek and British) politicians whose blogs apply heavy censorship, NOT on the basis of banning abusive users, but on the basis of shutting down opinions not helpful to themselves, or censoring unpleasant facts.

I’m looking for a technical _antidote_ (in WordPress blogging) which will reveal this hideous, hidden “moderation” _immediately_, stopping all the implicit deception.

So, if you have any information about this wordpress plugin “in space nobody can hear you scream”, as regards WordPress blogs, please let me know.

Thanks for your attention.

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Mark
Chief Lord Executioner – Reel-Time.com