@sfblue:
“We flagged your post, now shut up”.

Gangsterism exhibited by “Craig’s List” “anonymous” censors is sufficient evidence that there is yet no effective defense against anonymous thuggery.

Liberty as we understand it is not an established fact on the internet. This is due to the fact of practical anonymity by “communities” of decisive power over what any one is permitted to publish.

What made sense in the village commons or “on the village green” is stupifyingly irrelevant now. Freedom of the Press does not exist when anonymous crowds on Craigs List or Digg wield censorious (“flag it”) power.

Sorry, folks, but this is an existential problem. Not only does no one know you
‘re a “dog”, no one knows you’re a fascist, rat bastard in league with other fascistic, rat-like bastards.