Not Surprisingly, "Liberationtech" Censors My Response to Appelbaum

Yeah, these guys always have trouble dealing with pushback to their bad arguments. They always use their heavy moderator's hand to suppress debate and calling to account the unaccountable, like Jacob Appelbaum.

Here's the message I got from the moderator, who is no neutral party, as I've discovered in a number of clashes with him, and who takes political positions in support of Tor and State Department funding of Tor against competing projects.

Catherine,

We were unable to approve your direct message to Jacob to the list because it was written in what was deemed as an accusatory tone.  As such, the message did not meet Liberationtech list rule #3:

3. Please keep discussions constructive and civil.  All topics, in so far as they relate to Liberationtech... are fine...  We have a zero-tolerance policy for anyone who posts inflammatory... messages to our community.

But please feel free to forward your message to Jacob directly, if so inclined.

Best,

Yosem

My response can be read here.  It's not "accusatory," it's merely polemical, answering point by point the claims of Appelbaum. People have trouble telling the difference these days, but then, they are apt to declare as "trolling" or "flaming" anything they don't like -- which is why closed mailing lists aren't really a democratic and free instrument for deciding matters of state -- which this is, because so much government money is involved.