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Censorship, Again

I put up a post on NextDoor about with a real scenario - I am over 60, have diabetes and asthma, and I am confronted with someone who refuses to respect my “social distance.” My statement was that I would treat them like anyone else atacking me with a deadly weapon, and “I fully intend to make sure that those that violate the guidelines will only do so once with me.” Very plainly no threat to anyone except maybe someone violating my space too far, and nothing specific then.

NextDoor said that I was threatening, and banned me. They did not warn me, they did not discuss the post with me, they banned me silently, and I did not know about it until I tried to log in to reply to some comments. I got no reason for them banning me until I complained, and that is when they told me people felt threatened. I know that the orangutan and his fans would just like the problem to vanish, but this is reality, and the problem I brought up needs to be discussed. It happens too often. See my earlier post on the subject as well.

Sure, the post was intentionally and successfully provocative - I even managed to get some fans of the idiot in the White House to think for a second or two. Unfortunately, they only used their minds long enough to figure out how to use that as an excuse to get NextDoor to censor me.

What the hell, people? Is discussing the social problems related to the virus plague so evil that you have to censor someone for trying? Or does the management of NextDoor just watch too much faux noise like the people who felt threatened by the post?