> Straw-man and now gas-lighting.

Indeed.

> If they hadn't have used the story like prose I may have read the rest of it!

So you didn't read it? How far did you make it? I swear there is an underlined link to another article about the ban somewhere in first paragraph. If you follow that link, there's a handy sidebar appears with details about the ban. Yay technology)

> throwaway news "stories" written by a copy writer that wants to make use of their English degree

Personal attacks on people who can write? let's goo!