I have carefully read the IT Community Standards in order to understand why my comments have been de-activated.
The Community Standards are:
"The following activities are not acceptable.
* Personal abuse of our authors, of commenters, members or of any other individuals.
* Posts which contain incitement to hatred of groups or individuals, or foul or profane language.
* Posts which promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals.
* Contributions which may put The Irish Times in legal jeopardy, because they are unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable
* Comments which are not relevant to the topic in question
* Posts which appear to be promoting commercial products or acting in a spam-like fashion.
* Posts whose purpose is to promote propaganda or external links, rather than adding to the particular discussion taking place on irishtimes.com.
* Posts which create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
* Posts which "stalk" another."
None of my comments:
* have personal abuse of authors, of commenters, members or of any other individuals.
* contain incitement to hatred of groups or individuals, or foul or profane language
* promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals.
* are contributions which may put The Irish Times in legal jeopardy, because they are unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable
* are comments which are not relevant to the topic in question
* are posts which appear to be promoting commercial products or acting in a spam-like fashion.
* create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
* "stalk" another
The remaining guideline is:
* Posts whose purpose is to promote propaganda or external links, rather than adding to the particular discussion taking place on irishtimes.com.
There are three parts to this one.
> Starting with the last part, I was seeking to add to the particular discussion by informing readers of successful actions taken in India to control the indian variant. All the deactivated posts related to early treatment.
> I linked to external sources, not to promote them, but to inform readers of my sources so they could see for themselves. I do not ask people to simply take my word for it. (Though they should :-))
> Propaganda. Coming from the IT, that is a good one. Who decides what is propaganda? A key element of successful propaganda is to simply not report on events that contradict the preferred narrative. IT excels at this. I was presenting additional information that opposes the IT doomnfearmongering propaganda.
I believe my posts were deactivated because of this opposition to IT propaganda and presentation of facts in conflict with their doomnfearmongering.
For anyone who may wish to compare my comments to the IT Community Guidelines, I have posted them here:
https://ltexpat.blogspot.com/2021/06/deactivated-comments-relating-to.html
If, having read them, any one considers that any of my comments may genuinely have violated the above guidelines, I would appreciate it if you would leave a comment explaing why. Thank you.
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