Wouldn't it be nice if Civil Beat would follow the advice in this column, and stop suppressing free speech or reader comments which disagree with CB editorial viewpoints?  This comment will be a test case.  Editor Eppler assures me that my comments are no longer automatically banned until she approves them.  She says my comments are now being handled by the same screening "algorithm" applied to everyone else; and of course, also subject to the same crowdsourced censorship whereby other commenters can judge the comments I write regarding whether they are "civil."  So let's see whether this particular comment gets past the "algorithm" and survives the scrutiny of other readers.  Or is the fact that "Conklin" is the author of a submitted comment one of the elements in the "algorithm" that causes the automatic banning of it?

Above comment by Ken Conklin still never posted an hour later,  But with new identity it does get posted. Clearly, "Conklin" is still blocked despite Eppler assurance