Comment Removed from Janice Turner Hate Crime Article in The Times

Every morning I open my phone and note my bannings and deletions. I never say anything hateful or mean. I say the unfiltered truth and the world hates it. Someday people like us are going to be so unique that we might become worth something again.

@AnnoyedOfTunbridge, have you tried sending a direct message on Twitter to Janice Turner to ask for her support? I would hope she could put a rocket under their moderators in a case like this. Good luck.

Good for you, OP, and thanks for updating this thread. Missed it the first time and just saw it via Active.

Good for you! Keep going. This silencing of women needs to be challenged more.

It will be very interesting to see if the potential loss of subscription means you get some traction with your complaint. I do hope so.

AnnoyedofTunbridge I also took out a subscription to The Times for the sole purpose of countering the nonsense and lies posted in comments by the likes of “Disgusted of Manchester”.

(I have a different User Name, to avoid the cross-platform stalkers and witch-doxers!)

I don’t know if she is on here but, if she is, a big shout out to the excellent Jo March, whose comments are sometimes even better than the original article!

If they get all pissy PC and delete perfectly decent comments just because they are Gender Critical then I’ll be complaining too - and cancelling my subscription if they don’t change their ways.

If they want to alienate subscribers with a sharp kick in the teeth then they are going the right way about it.

Well done! I'd like to hear their justification for removing your comment!

annoyed good for you. I’m a regular Times commenter and I have also noticed the woke-creep. Last week I reposted a deleted and perfectly reasonable comment with a note to mods that I am starting to take screenshots for my Times complaint letter.

Different topic, but worse outcome.

I was used to having comments deleted by woke moderators at the Guardian.

But I got banned from commentating BTL altogether at the Guardian for posting shortly before the election that Jeremy Corbyn was anti-Semitic - they said this was libellous, but a) there had been numerous articles, including in their own newspaper, saying the same thing, and b) the EHRC were literally investigating the Labour Party under Corbyn for anti-Semitism.

I am Jewish, btw.

I argued to no avail that what I said was hardly controversial, that as a Jew, I had a right to name obvious anti-Semitism where I find it, and that banning a Jew for pointing out anti-Semitism was really not a good look for a supposedly left-wing paper...!

But no, they stayed firm. Horrendous. And probably some woke young mod, who imagines they are 'progressive' and anti-racist. I'm still fuming, though.

So on the positive side, at least the Times just deleted your post rather than removing your posting rights!

I’ve had a couple of comments removed recently in the Times. Both were under an article about the GRA when I replied to a well known commenter on trans articles called ‘disgusted of Manchester’. I wasn’t rude but I think as others have said that the comment was removed by the woke moderators, his comments were left alone.

I’ve seen quite a few people complaining recently under the trans articles that their comments are being deleted. It seems to be a new thing so whether it is one new mod responsible, who knows? It’s very annoying.

I've seen people say a few times that moderation on week ends seems to be done differently, more like anything that gets a complaint is removed. Maybe you fell foul of the weekend mods.

I had something equally bland deleted under the article about Liz Truss’ statement earlier in the week.

I suspect there is a (Or probably several) stonewalled young staffers looking after the comments.

Yes, utterly unfair.

Of course, when one starts having polite, reasonable comments relating to freedom of speech deleted, it only underlines the point.

But surely the woke kids are all over feminism, as long as you ignore the obvious? So they shouldn't have objected, either - you made no reference to anything other than how misogynist is it not to, yanno, see misogyny as an issue worth addressing!

Definitely complain.

Another one to say pursue it. I don't comment but I've seen comments reinstated, sometimes it's removed by mods for checking I think and comes back after a delay.

I liked it too. Times has been odd recently seeing quite a few anti government posts being deleted even if seems well within guidelines and upvoted (Steve in Cambridge for example). You should complain.

I think I was one of the people who liked it - it didn't seem remotely to infringe any guidelines. It's unusual, the Times is generally quite live and let live BTL.

Pursue it OP.
There's a customer services number listed and you could ask them (when it's open) how to challenge a deletion.

I can't see anything remotely controversial about your comment OP. How bizarre.

If you sort the comments on most recommended, it seems that the most popular comments were also the most contentious... Definitely pursue it with the moderators.