We were harassed for a year by union members who are supporting the terminal and we finally got that stopped and they are taking a new tack.
You go Girl!
WSJ has had the same left/islam slide as so many quisling media outlets.
Good for you in standing up to the jerks on that board.
I heard a little about the coal terminal and wondered why anyone wanted it when there’s a perfectly serviceable coal terminal just across the border at Tsawwassen. Oh, wait, that’s because a Democrat-supporting union doesn’t have any jobs there thus they want to redundantly mess up more of the environment just so more union dues can be collected.
More proof that the liberals are unmitigated hypocrites when they talk about the environment.
Was the help desk conversation over e-mail or phone? It would be interesting to see e-mails of a rep admitting it is because you are a conservative.
I suspect that this censorship and effort to gain access to my personal information is related to my political activity and opposition to the coal terminal in Whatcom County. We were harassed for a year by union members...
Thank you for your righteous opposition to the Commie-Fascists' plan, its Union Brownshirts run amok, and also for exposing the Wall Street Journal as a Left-Infested subversive org.
It’s a privately owned website. they are free to post and delete whatever they wish, much in the same way freerepublic does. It’s sad they are so transparently left, but they are free to do so. Just as we are free to stop supporting their site/paper.
There’s a lot of this going around. The iHub discussion board about Calypso Wireless has been taken over by a moderator who SCREAMS INSULTS ALL DAY at a former company officer. Any board member who criticizes this is deleted. The board has become worthless.
Over here in eastern WA some of us are a little nervous about seemingly endless coal trains blocking streets at crossings with no budget for overpass/underpasses in sight. I personally would not be affected much but many commuters would.
“Sorry Comrade but you have been deemed an enemy of peace and freedom so you may no longer post at WSJ. Now please go away.” There does that about sum it up?
I get emails and offers in the mail from the WSJ practically begging me to subscribe. I used to like the WSJ. It was a good source of information.
Has it now become just one more politically correct MSM propaganda rag?
At least the powers are listening to you. I got booted from a message board about books but it had a political board. The webmaster there was a lefty who hated my opinions. Her bosses didn’t care she booted me for no valid reason.
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Good afternoon Eva. I’ve been on WSJ for over a decade and see high intensity on both sides. I personally have called some of the lefties fools and worse. What did you say?
Life will go on and you do have the option of cutting off their sales privileges to you (it's way over priced anyway).
I once wrote letters to the editor of my local paper. They actually printed some of them. Then they told me not to send any more letters because they would not be printed. This was 5 years ago.
This is the email that I sent to journalcommunity@wsj.com.
The moderator at the WSJ comment board has cut off my posting privileges, saying that I was not who I said I was and that I used offensive or violent language. I saved a copy of the post that he turned down and the most offensive word in the post was “pregnant”.
Then they claimed that I had to post private information in my profile before I would be permitted to post. There is no requirement to post private information in my profile, but I conceded to fill out the form to a certain extent, but since I am retired, there was not much to fill in. So, then I was asked to provide my husband’s information, which I refused because my posting has nothing to do with my husband or his job. My husband has a sensitive position and serves on numerous government boards and commissions. Nothing I do has anything to with him. I admit that the college I filled in is not the real college that I attended, but I didn’t think that was any of their business. I am a retired health care professional and I graduated from an East Coast College. That is about all anyone needs to know. My personal information is my own business.
This is a totally partisan censorship, much like what happened at the IRS.
Let me give you a little background. I used to be a Republican precinct captain and was very vocal about my opposition to the sub-bituminous coal terminal that they are trying to ram through the approval process in Whatcom County. As a result, we have been the target of union harassment, mostly phone calls, day and night, 24 hours a day. The first calls came from a pre-paid cell phone that was linked to a child sex ring in Anchorage, Alaska. (I consulted a private detective) Then the calls seemed to be coming from within a prison in North Carolina and when we didn’t answer the phone, they sent text to land messages, offering sex for sale. (I didn’t know that there was such a thing as text to land). Then they started entering our phone number into credit agencies under other people’s names, so that we would receive the calls from many agencies for other people. The calls came about once an hour all night long. We couldn’t cancel our phone service because our alarm system is connected to the land line, so we changed our phone number three times in one year. But before we changed it the last time, we received a call from someone who claimed that they were calling from 1 800 flowers and wanted our street address so that they could deliver flowers and that they had Raoul, Miguel and Mateo standing ready to make the delivery. It was a threat.
The problem at the WSJ is more of the same. Posters in the WSJ Community respect me. I have been complemented numerous times for presenting a differing opinion in a polite manner. I have been invited several times to join blogs for writers because they need a conservative point of view. The latest invitation is from a site called, Writers Beat. I am thinking of taking them up on it and writing about my experience on the WSJ comment board.
The government has recently been in the news for suppression of freedom of the press, but this is the first time that I have heard of the press being involved in the freedom of expression. I hope that this situation can be resolved in a positive way. The union that is involved is the ILWU and the RR Workers’ Union.
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I would like to add that I believe that the attempt to force me to reveal personal information on my profile was an attempt to get my home address, which is not available through my subscription information because we do not have mail delivery at our home. This is a personal invasion of privacy and I consider it to be a threat because of the previous experience with union harassment.
And I would simply not post there. Why care. These fools are part of the Obamanation. Thus, wanting control and full rule.
If you’re paying for this service then you should tell them you want a prorated portion of your money back that properly reflects the days/time you have been banned and if they refuse tell them you are contacting the better business bureau to file a claim.