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Are "We the People" Being "Deleted As Spam" in the USA?

 Happy New Year Everyone brian-wangenheim-unsplash Yesterday morning I posted a comment to a story in the  Boothbay Register about the minimum wage increase in Maine.  It remained online for a least a minute before it was wiped. Interestingly Disqus was on to it before I even got there about two minutes after my comment was wiped. The message on Disqus says "Deleted as Spam: and then "Thanks, were working on getting this corrected". A while back, when my Boothbay Register comments first started being deleted, they were marked as spam in Disqus and there was a link to contest it. Now it is being corrected by Disqus without any action on my part. Perhaps the Russian hackers are doing me a small favor since so many major corporations were hit, could it be that their hack detectors are working much better now, across all industries?  I should add that I am actually using Blogger to compose my post. A while back I was working on a post for several hours in the morning and sav