Site with over a million users and one of the biggest agitprop vehicles of the last five years and now it's private. Lol. Lmao.
Edit: Ok, now the mods are saying making the site private is only temporary while they "deal with the cleanup from ongoing brigading."
As they say, giving a bad defense of something does more harm than a good criticism of it.
The "Never Play Defense" strategy is basically inviolate when it comes to media presence, especially in the context of internet activity and communities. You can never, ever go into even marginally hostile environments to speak for a politically charged group, act with any form of contrition, and expect to walk away not having given your enemies free ammunition.
Going into an interview with Fox News without having he entire interview completely locked down on subject matter, questions, length of discussion, etc., is such a bad fucking idea that I'm amazed anyone on the mod team was not screaming at everyone else to just ignore the invitation.