Just in posting this evening on this story, I've managed to run afoul of the G&M's filtering restrictions three times, and now my account is locked.  What a god awful system this is. If I'm more lenient on comments because they are not personally directed, I can lose my posting privileges?

I almost prefer the old days when the G&M censored directly, because this system artificially shifts the onus onto the public, The G&M still shuts you down if you don't filter the way they want you to, so they ultimately end up censoring content themselves, anyway.  The old way was more honest, if corporate censorship could in any way be construed as 'honest'. 

Time to cancel my account, I think.