As you can see from the screenshots above, the WSWS and Disqus have blocked 9 of 24 comments, only two of which were second attempts. One of my other second attempts made it through. All of these I have posted to Disqus on the WSWS since the last email shown below written to Dan Conway, who spoke on behalf of the WSWS starting on Dec. 31st, 2020. I will post these blocked comments in text form separately. For a copy of the entire email conversation, write in.

Below you can see Conway’s final response and my final response to him. In light of recent revelations by the WSWS about Facebook shutting down various accounts, the response of Conway, filled with false accusations, contradictions, misrepresentations of material facts, and other fraud, should lead to great concern among the membership and readership of the WSWS. Democratic Power demands a fair hearing to fully discuss these issues so as to protect the democratic rights of SEP members from abuse by party functionaries.

Dan Conway <dconwaywsws@gmail.com>

To:Random Poster

Cc:Marc Wells

Mon, Jan 4 at 11:45 AM

Hello and apologies for the delay in responding,

Also thank you for providing the link to your wordpress page as it helps to clarify your true purpose in raising these issues.

To the extent that your difficulties posting are related to problems with Disqus, this is something that the WSWS can’t properly assist with as it is a third party application. All I can suggest based on my own experience is that if you attempt to post on Disqus using Tor or a VPN connection, problems may arise as a result.

Aside from that, the World Socialist We Site maintains its own commenting discussion rules which may be found here:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/19/comm-a19.html

I have not looked through your entire commenting history or attempted commenting history on the site which you’ve documented on your wordpress page. It is clear, however, that you are not simply a “random poster” but that you have a real differences with the program of the ICFI.  You essentially use bogus charges of repression of criticism to build support within the party to change its orientation in line with the current fashionable trends of US “left” imperialism. Your encouraging and extended conversation with an ex-SEP member who left the party to
embrace upper-middle class identity politics and the #MeToo movement in particular was quite revealing.

At any rate, I hope that your future attempts at posting on the WSWS are successful to the extent that do not run afoul of the site’s discussion rules.

We are quite confident that your attempts to line the party’s program behind conspiracy theories that the coronavirus was deliberately manufactured in a Chinese lab or that wealth distribution is not primarily a class but generational question, just to name only two examples, will not find a hearing among a continually growing cadre of revolutionary Marxists.

Respectfully,

Dan Conway

Random Poster <randomposter33@yahoo.com>

To:dconwaywsws@gmail.com,Dan Conway

Cc:Marc Wells

Tue, Jan 5 at 10:47 PM

Hello Dan,

If I am being accused of having a “true purpose” which leads me to make “bogus charges”, then perhaps I need a lawyer in the party to defend me.  I am not posing as anyone in particular, and my “random poster” screen name indicates that I sympathize with the rank and file, not that I am breaking some rule with regard to identity.

The good news is, since we are scapegoating disqus.com, I have found a way out of this problem.  I just opened a new account and I have now begun to see my comments.  I would have preferred not to switch accounts, since it gives the power to the hacker or moderator or some behind-the-scenes algorithm.  Still, my main purpose was not to distance myself from the party but maintain an open line of communication.

With regard to the political issues you raised, I am glad to finally get a response.  I will address these issues in the friendliest way possible and with as much depth as I can dedicated myself to.

Warm regards,

RP