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Oct 23Liked by David Schmitt, Ph.D.

It's my guess that editing oversight has decided to play their technical difficulty card , rather than challenge your writing with reason or legality , because they do not have a defensible case against you.

You must've hit a nerve.

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I think you are correct. I am too much of a small fry for a complete, Twitter-like banning of the 2020 days of Trump, or like the going silencing of Jared Taylor by Twitter to this day. I had a skirmish with Substack a year or so ago when some "Karen" did not like what I said about the importance of having larger families. This was at (as I recall) the Emily Oster site (why I ever bothered to comment there I have no idea---I should have had my head examined). At that time I got a nasty, condescending lecture by Substack staff, even though all the nastiness was coming from the gals---one in particular. So, I get--as you suggest--mere diminution of functionality, at least so far, in order to teach me a lesson. To do this right, I am going to need to harden and diversify my operation. Writing is becoming akin to warcraft. Thank you for your comment.

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I cannot add titles to new posts. Titles have been removed and cannot be added to new or current draft posts---yes, even though I did get this one through. Then, I am given the invitation to a Chatbot, but I cannot actually opt for it because the "Accept" radio button is grayed out. Thus, I cannot communicate with Substack that way. I was given no reason for this action.

I have had "Karens" try to get me banned in the past and pro-trolls monitor my work, particularly politically relevant work and topics, and make it clear that they are watching.

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What do you mean blocking?

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By the way, thanks for asking. We'll see tomorrow if their little hand slapping will still be in force when I will plan on posting more articles---or at least one. But really, society cannot put up with these little tyrants indefinitely. Somewhere down the line, there will have to be the statutory enabling and codification that makes it possible to pursue this kind of harassment with civil-legal actions, if not criminal ones. If the techno-tyrants can take advantage of the blurring produced by public-private partnerships that enable asymmetric abuse of those of us acting according to the old Constitutional protections and restraints upon government, well---then there will have to be huge tit for tat restoration of justice. All enemies have a weak spot. They will need to have their system turned against their devious, suppressive, anti-human activities.

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