You are likely correct.  If other members have issues posting comments I hope they let us know.

We are currently hosted by an international hosting service.  Hooking up their Simple Machines 'man in the middle' software might be a bit difficult, but we can't put it past them.  But we may not be on the radar enough for that kind of censorship.  As long as we are only a few old farts pissing on ourselves and in the wind, just making us hard to find might be enough.

Intercepting the Dogchat private messaging would require some custom work, but it would not be difficult.  I'm sure they can intercept that traffic at the database.  Supposedly DBs are secure, but since they are all the same nut, the nut had only to be cracked once.

There are always dissenting voices, 'they' know that.  The important thing is not to eliminate dissent, but to keep the voice of dissent to a whisper.  Then we actually do 'them' a service.  We prove to the sheep they are free.  Baaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!

Originally I was using custom files instead of a database to be more secure.  I switched to make development easier.  If I add encryption and go to back to custom files when I have it all nailed down, and we stay with a Malaysian hosting service.  We might be on top of 'them'.

The encryption would make management of comments difficult for them.  It would not give any more privacy to individual users since individual monitoring is a different thing.  It would make it hard to tell what it what on the server.  But for my software changes to have any value we need more members.

I would muddle the posting times just like they showed me they did at Clusterfuck Nation.  James Howard Kunstler has a special arrangement with 'them'.  Special as in the dude gets paid.

Every week Kunstler gets a thousand comments from a handful of members using a few aliases apiece.  All working for the NSA.  Posting times get played with to make what they do less transparent.  Meanwhile Kunstler puts out rabid conservative conspiracy bullshit acting as flypaper to attract and identify the discontented so they may be labeled as potential terrorists like us.  The number of comments Kunstler gets is impossible considering his limited readership.  Kunstler is a last man standing snake.  He was hired as a professional sophist because his skill is writing.

If the NSA gave out potential terrorist membership cards how long would it be before we all had one?  <= this question has an answer.  I know what it is.