Shut Up, He Explained: The Daily Beast Silences All of Its Readers

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

There’s a poetic justice to this. A year or two ago, The Daily Beast permablocked me from commenting. I had been disobedient. Now, however, it is treating all its obedient communist readers as badly as me! Their submission got them bupkus!
 

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08.19.15 3:59 P.M. ET

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