This is what "free speech" looks like on Disqus discussion groups

Disqus hosts its own internal discussion groups. I have rarely been able to post in any of them without getting immediately banned from the group. So I suppose this actually rates as a relatively positive experience, because I wasn't banned and some of my posts are (for now) still up.

Disqus groups are relentlessly leftist, and they can absolutely not tolerate BadThink.


In the News Views group, this article was posted:





So I posted the following and got a very quick reply, to which I courteously responded:




In very little time, I was deleted:

I posted a followup. I was actually pretty sure this was going to get deleted. Imagine my surprise:




But just look at that. The conversation is unreadable. It wasn't even allowed to proceed for even a few minutes before being shut down by a moderator. I don't mind at all whatever "terrible" thing the other person may have said. The Disqus moderators, in my experience, are terrified of actual free speech and open discourse. And if they shut the other person down for rude speech, or whatever, then they also shut down my speech by making any discourse impossible.

I'm really beginning to hate Disqus. At least they don't get to pick the moderators for independent sites.

ETA: Gotta capture this one, in case it doesn't make it!

ETAA: In the same vein, had a post at The Mary Sue deleted. The accompanying article was literally just repetition of "TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. spliced with emotionalistic tweets supporting trans people.

Leftists simply cannot abide any sort of disagreement. How is one supposed to respect their positions when they are unable to cogently argue them, and simply shut down any disagreement?