I’ve made a comment – but it doesn’t appear on the site. What happened?

We never censor comments based on political or ideological points of view. We delete those comments that: (i) are abusive, off-topic, use excessive foul language; (ii) include personal attacks including comments that celebrate the death or illness of any person, public figure or otherwise; (iii) contain racist, sexist, homophobic or other forms of hate-speech; (iv) are solicitations and/or advertising for personal blogs and websites; (v) include thread spamming (you’ve posted this same comment elsewhere on the site); (vi) are posted with the explicit intention of provoking other commenters or the staff at The Periscope Post; or, (vii) contain content that may infringe the copyright or intellectual property rights of others or other applicable laws or regulations.

We must respect our writers and protect them from vicious and inflammatory comments. They too are entitled to free speech – the right to share their opinions without being subject to scathing and mean-spirited remark.