I read the Cato website constantly and never saw this alleged shift. I also heard your talk and thought you were wrong then and are still wrong. There is no evidence Cato was aware of Bandow's action and they removed him. The biased report would call that "predictably" distancing themselves. On the other hand if they didn't do that the same report would say "refuses to distance themselves" so no matter what action they took you are able to complain.

Your talk showed an ignorance of what policy institutes do. Libertarian ones don't sit around coming up with plans on how to tell people what to do. They try to move policy away from that trend or to mitigate it as much as possible. And much of what Cato does is about issues and no different than what many website do (like yours) but on a bigger scale.