@JtC @JtC I supported you with contributions well before the first request for donations. I supported you and publicly backed your moderation right up until I couldn't anymore. The last time I backed you on a moderation call, you proved me wrong within minutes of my post. That point was months after I came to question my desire to participate in a community that had become so toxic with the population and content quality dwindling. Dwindling as in excellent contributors walked away. (Does it seem strange that the scientists and medical people, few that there were, are all but gone?) The couple I spoke with had similar problems with the C99 community. I stayed and supported you and C99 well past when I should also have walked away. My sole purpose was to try to lower the toxicity and improve the conversations. By last summer I had all but given up then I stopped my support in last summer.

You and I should have had this discussion in private. Had you any respect we would have. This was your choice to make but was totally expected. Let's talk.

How any reasonable person could think much less say I want to promote censorship is beyond me. But then I suspect you didn't take the time to read and understand either of Dr Jo's answers. Or you did and something hit too close to home.

For the record I have always supported the right of anybody to say pretty much anything they want to say. There are no prohibited thoughts or words in my mind, only prohibitable actions. There are however objectionable ideas, thoughts, and words. It's subjective and not easily moderated. Not all ideas, opinions, or alternate narratives are deserving of rational consideration or respect. The people's right to say or think them is. Alternative facts unsupported by actual evidence are not always false, or actually factual, but usually are dead wrong and either way can be dangerous to others. That is the dilemma we find ourselves in with the pandemic. I support far fewer limits on what can be said than what I've seen here. I like to know about the closet racist. The white supremacist. The pedo. The paranoid. The people who only care about themselves. Somehow they can't not reveal themselves given the right climate and fertile soil.

I'll add a duty to question. A reasoned and self examined life requires us to question that which we do not understand or find reasonable. The right to be wrong is similarly necessary. The only sins associated with being wrong are to be wrong and promote it for your own benefit and to be wrong, refuse to examine your beliefs, assumptions, and ideas, and not admit and correct our errors. That's the self examination part that is so often omitted. I feel a duty to admit when I am wrong. Most of the time I do so which is a big incentive to be well enough informed and only speak when I'm qualified and can defend my position. Spending my life in aviation where performance and not screwing up in front of your peers was a great character builder. I learned to listen more than I speak and take my lumps when deserved.

I'm not the thin skinned type who sees insult and the desire to stop me from speaking my mind. The Dose crew with alternative views don't seem to feel so constrained in every post presenting content critical of alternative medicine, those with their own facts, and supporting the worldwide COVID responses. Funny how those are the posters who get these same warnings. Challenge the meta and you're being swarmed and you're the one who's insulting. Then *poof* you're gone. But that's not censorship. Right? Say anything we want except that vaccines and lockdowns work and deworming yourself, drinking bleach or urine(?!), "natural" immunity (two terribly wrong and confused ideas that don't belong near each other), and excessive doses of vitamins don't. Is that the bridge too far? I self censor myself here all the time because I have seen more than a few solid contributors disappeared from this site for the exactly the same charges. Convenient coincidence? A few did push too far intentionally with that purpose in mind. I even begged a couple to ease up and that we needed their voices. Others, oddly enough, seem to have disappeared because they challenged the content and medically/scientifically unsupportable alternatives and their supporters that have taken control of the site. Others simply left for their own reasons. But none of that is censorship. Right so far? Probably not.

The suggestion of insults either direct or implied is a stretch. Not for the first time I might add. There is a powerful difference between disagreeing with ones position and insulting them. A few of us don't seem to be able to make the distinction. There is more than one here who immediately claim harm and insult when their ideas are challenged. They see themselves being addressed even when they're not even in the conversation or been present. Their responses, of course, are fully acceptable even thought terms like "fucked in the head" and invites to in effect fuck off flew in retaliation and not for the first time. There, of course, is nothing wrong when the pack descends on those who challenge the Gish gallop content in the Dose. To see comments like:

It’s a relief to have a different perspective allowed here, if it will actually continue to be allowed.

indicates I'm not the only one who sees it. How many others won't speak up after seeing what is in store for them? I think the desparecidos might agree as well. Oh, wait. They're desparecidos they can't disagree but that's not censorship. Right.

So. Are we at a crossroads? I'll be happy to speak with you here, elsewhere away from prying ears in any media, or be disappeared. I'm not challenging your a-thor-i-ti. This is totally on you. Do your worst.

For those who want to get insight into the science and medical responses to this pandemic can read Dr Jo's content here: https://www.quora.com/profile/Dr-Jo-6
It's worth it if I'm no longer present. Otherwise standby for a chance to come to understand far more than from any other source I've seen in the past two years.

[Edit: It now appears that officially not all opinions are equal, valued, or acceptable here. TB is now insulting for offering her/his opinion. Add observation and criticism to the list of things that are insulting. Definitely not censorship though.]

forget about it. And turn down the insults, both direct and indirect.