Topix is the bubonic plague of the internet, spread the word

Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) and Tribune Company have been turning our country into a police state. They think they are the only ones with the right to express oneself. I have conducted a 10-month investigation into Topix.com. Topix.com is rotten and I can prove it. I have been persecuted and censored on Topix since last August. Trolls built 16 attack forums there attacking me and my (liberal) blog, it forced me to shut down my blog. The trolls were stealing content from it, skewing it, and posting it as comments on Topix attack forums along with every form of verbal sadism.

I stayed away from Topix until January, when I was forced to go back there to blog in support of as parcel tax to help our public schools. So few bloggers were willing to face the trolls, yet the Right here, had made it central to their campaign. Via trolls, they were practicing TOTAL manipulated opinion - some trolls would be the nasty racists ones, some appear to be more "normal", yet spew disinformation, and the bully trolls would chase off real-person commentators. The trolls openly affiliate themselves with the tea party.

Take a look at these Topix threads and see for yourself. The Tea Party and Topix are good friends, heck the Tea Party is joining in the victory party with the trolls!:

*PUSD parcel tax appears headed for defeat

*PUSD parcel tax appears headed for defeat

*PUSD parcel tax appears headed for defeat

Check out this Topix thread. The trolls built this attack forum as part of their campaign to defeat the parcel tax, needed and necessary to save our public schools in times of severe cuts in funding. This thread was built as a Topix Poll and is called

*How will PUSD pass the parcel tax

I have been attacked there by trolls since January, they set on me at once. I have not let this stop me. But then Topix tried to stop me by shadow-banning* me, didn't catch it for two weeks. For two weeks I published comments that only I could see. I came back with a new name - I always use my real name and so I used my nick name - and started in again. They tried to shadow ban me again, I simply switched names again.

*Shadow-banning is an extremely unethical form of censorship Topix practices, you can see the comment you write, no one else can. The only way to know you have been shadow-banned, is for a friend on another computer to tell you.

This time they put me on moderated commenting, where my comments would take 5 minutes to appear. They would then alert the trolls, who were given time to prepare a response. By the time my comment published, the troll comment was attached to it.
The Topix trolls also stole my real-name user name - Virginia Olive Hoge - and posted comments with it. This is identity theft! Check out this Topix thread to see Topix name-stealing trolls in full operation:

*Pasadena City Council to hold eminent domain hearing Monday night

Topix practices censorship by encouraging, supporting and refusing to ban, bully-trolls.

Bully-trolls are on Topix threads to bully away commentators.

I saw one blogger for example, an honest one, who wrote after being bullied: "I am leaving and never visiting these threads again" - how many times is that happening daily across the Nation?

I saw another blogger, have his wife and family attacked by trolls, over and over again. He stuck it out, one of the very, very few who do.
I wrote about all I have learned on Topix about their troll encouraging practices - very devious ones, full of programming tricks - ones they do not make public and the Nation does not know about:

*Something way funky is going on over at Topix

With the twittering - these Pasadena Topix threads are now being twittered to the world - Topix has taken me off of moderation and so far, has published every recent comment. I plan to expose Topix to the world. They are so dangerous, it is a danger to our Nation to have free-speech so threatened. Topix is the bubonic plague of the internet!

Mainstream media - including Wired magazine - will not report on them, they have the same owners, it is up to bloggers to spread the word.