Chanops can kick people off a channel; opers can ban people logging in from specific Internet sites from participating in IRC.

But on one fatal occasion I happened to change my tactics and warmly praised a work[…] my eulogistic review of the hated individual, unfortunately for me, appeared, with the result that private spite outweighed public justice and I was immediately dismissed.

[Y]ou ſlander / The Helmes o'th State: vvho care for you like Fathers, / VVhen you curſe them, as Enemies.

Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.