I tried posting on Huff Po a few times, but that didn't last long before I decided it was a deeply flawed political machine.  My awareness of this came at the time that one of the Madoff sons committed suicide.  Among all the well-wishers, I tried to make the point that, with all due sympathy to his wife and children, the efforts to collect the ill-gotten Madoff wealth should continue.  This was blocked as "abusive", and I noticed that about every fifth post was blocked as abusive, and the only posts visible were well-wishers offering sympathy to the family, along with statements like "now can we finally let these people be?" 


It felt very much like a PR campaign designed to let this guy's family keep all the wealth, with no questions as to whether it was ill-gotten.