When the recent Free Speech riot happened at UC Berkeley, it seemed deja vu.

I had sent an email to Christine Reynolds, Sunnyvale Birdland Lead, as follows:



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(Subject: Did you receive my message?)

More than a day has passed since I wrote the following to you: My post, Go For It, was removed. The reason given for this: not promoting my business in the right way. Did you read it?

I HAD a business. I'm now retired, as disclosed on the Home page of my website, the source of my post, Go For It. I have no business to promote. Someone who dislikes my ideas has flagged my posts before, citing this presumed contravention of the guidelines. In those cases there was no removal of my post. Can you see any reason why Go For It should be removed?

If you read my post, it doesn't promote Walgreens, either. If I were to rate it as other businesses are on Nextdoor, I'd say: very good. I've shopped there for years, buying sundry items, drugs, flu shots, and will continue to do so. The article I posted contains some factual events and some obviously nonfactual events. It's clearly not a business rating, and just as clearly it's an expression of my emotions and ideas, probably the reason for the flagging and removal of my post. I hope you will reinstate Go For It for it will go far whether or not you go for it. Nextdoor is not the only place it has been posted.

Whatever you decide, I'd like to know your reasoning. Until now, 31 Jan 2017, I've not had the courtesy of a reply.

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You can see the censored post. Go to the page Freedom, shown on the left. Click on the arrow and find Go For It in the drop down list.

I will try posting this on Nextdoor. If it stays there, everybody wins. If not, draw conclusions. Since I might lose my account, if you want you can subscribe to my mailing list by sending an email to:

theroot_us@yahoo.com