I am not generally wont to complain about moderation; to the contrary, I think that there should be more of it.  However, there is a real and perhaps unprecedented problem whereas the following posts, fully reposted below, were deleted by a Bitcoin Forum moderator (not by infofront) from the Wall Observer:

All timestamps are UTC.  Listed in reverse chronological order of when each post was made.

• [WO] Blockseer, U.S. OFAC, and attacks on Bitcoin fungibility (A post about Bitcoin transaction censorship by a new mining pool.) • Post timestamp: 2020-11-14 00:49:51 • Deleted at: 2020-11-14 07:06:49
• [WO] Communism and Covid (Re Communist thought-control.) • Post timestamp: 2020-11-13 23:59:15 • Deleted at: 2020-11-14 07:06:51
• [WO] E pur si muove (A post about Twitter’s suppression of free discussion.) • Post timestamp: 2020-11-13 18:05:22 • Deleted at: 2020-11-14 07:06:43

Note:  Due to the ugliness of this forum’s quoting, especially for extended texts, I have broken my posts out of quotes.  The moderation PM message, and a correct <quote> tag suitable for each original post, are above the unaltered post text from the moderation PM.

As I myself recently discovered, there are officially “Special Wall Observer rules” in bright red letters that would have been seen by whatever anonymous coward reported my posts:


Thus, the “on-topicness” of my posts cannot even allegeably be an issue.  At this juncture, I observe that:

• None of my posts violated those of the forum rules that apply everywhere, including WO.  (At a vast stretch, trying to puzzle out what rule I allegedly violated, I have a suspicion about what an idiot hell-bent on rules-lawyering may say about one of them; but that would be ridiculous, and anyway, it could not apply to the other two that were deleted at the same time.)
• All three of these posts contained serious discussion.  Whether one agrees with me or not, only a fool would accuse me of shitposting.  Anyway, shitposting in WO is not to be handled by the forum moderators (if at all).
• Ironically, one of my deleted posts replied to a satire about the suppression of free discussion by Twitter.  Did I perhaps peeve a moderator who wishes to turn this place in Twitter? 
• Ironically, one of my deleted posts replied briefly to a list of Communist thought-control techniques (with comparison to government handling of exploitation of Covid).
• One of my deleted posts was about a serious Bitcoin issue, i.e. a new mining pool that does transaction censorship and blacklisting.  I believe that this is an existential threat to Bitcoin (as I intended to explain in part 2/2 of my “coredump”).  If serious Bitcoin issues cannot be discussed in the Wall Observer, then—I am at a loss for words to complete this sentence.

This is a privately owned forum.  If theymos didn’t want me here, he could kick me out with the push of a button.  I will not go off into some liberal whine in the manner of “Help!  Help!  I’m being repressed!”

This is a forum with a high reputation for free discussion.  It thus invites the value of “user-generated content”—which I myself usually would never give to any site that I do not own, as a matter of principle (n.b. an argument that would fall flat if propounded by those whose scribblings are not valued by others).  And as such, this forum has attracted a community of the type that cannot be found in the sheep-grazing wastelands of Twitter and Facebook.  I don’t think I am going out on a limb in positing that some people here will want to know about these deleted posts!

For my part, I am usually supportive of the moderators; they have a hard job, and I have no wish to make it harder.  However, if I were to say nothing about this publicly, then I would hereafter need perpetually to second-guess myself on whether I have permission to discuss Big Tech censorship (!) and Bitcoin transaction censorship (!!) on this forum.  Inter alia.
I would feel thus a chill wind blow over my ability to engage in serious discussion here, if I did not place the individual who deleted my posts on notice that I will call out exceptionally stupid moderation decisions.