Time for some criticism of Newstalkers

This morning I seeded a story of Amazon banning a book because of the writers ideology. IMO such a story belongs in the book group. I did something unique with this seed - I neither made comments nor moderated.

Here is the seed:

https://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/12331/tech-censorship-is-accelerating-wsj?g=72#cm1526352

Anyone with an open, normal mind, who reads the comments will clearly see that most of them were personally criticizing me in some way. The book moderator ticketed the offenses, but left the comments so that we can all clearly see what is wrong with Newstalkers. We have a group of hard core leftists who have become very comfortable with personal attacks, insults, rudeness and in my case, running back to Perrie to complain about everything I do. 

How did they become this way?  

Simple answer biased moderation - from one moderator in particular. We all know who he is.


The complaints against me have been:

Closing articles (this I no longer do).
Making a closing statement.
Making precise predictions (I suppose that hurts).
Asking them to refrain from posting cartoons & pictures.
Having Trump off topic, when he is clearly off topic.
Moderating seeds & articles I'm commenting on (that is a bit different)
Being descriptive in moderating (such as noting rudeness).

In every case management has given in to the complaints of these nasty progressives. It seems that management won't be satisfied until Newstalkers is nothing more than an echo chamber for 30 or so angry, outraged lefties.