To censor or not to censor...

by Elsewhere 30 Replies latest jw friends

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  ThiChi

  PS:

  What I like about this board is the diversity. You have some great resources like DogPatch, Amazing, Jan H, AlenF, SYN, Farkel, and many others, on "one side" and posters like You Know on the other (whos left from this side, after all the "cuts?")

  Whatever the issue is at hand, this place would be poorer without these viewpoints on both sides of the fence.

  Heck, this is better than HBO on a Saturday night!

  "Get Your Own Board" What an easy out! Sounds just like the JWs! Lets be different...........

  Edited by - thichi on 19 August 2002 17:38:32

  Edited by - thichi on 19 August 2002 17:46:1
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  Elsewhere

  (Sorry, posted unrelated message on the wrong thread)

  Edited by - Elsewhere on 19 August 2002 17:43:59
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  puzzled

  If [a writing] be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

  -Thomas Jefferson

  I'm all for that.

  But then again Thomas Jefferson wasn't quoted saying:

  If a F##KING writing is a fasle piece of s##t written by an idiot with s##t for brains then tell them to just F##K OFF!

  If pathetic motherf###er wants to say something stupid the let him, but for God's sake, let us freely hear both f###inf sides, if we choose.

  There is also "Freedom of the press"!

  Newspapers do not print stuff like that either, so why should we have a problem in a public forum being asked not to print stuff like that.

  I have no problem doing my best to abide by the rules. I can't say I have never slipped up, but if I do and print something really deliberately offensive and it is removed I will no make an issue out of it because I know what freedom of speech means.

  If I walked into a public mall (and this is a mall of sorts) and someone was shouting obscenities in the mall I would expect that that person would be asked to control himself or herself and if that refused to do so they would be escorted out.
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  Elsewhere

  That's a good point about the mall.

  (Ignore Cursing User - Sorry, had to make another shameless plug )

  Edited by - Elsewhere on 19 August 2002 17:47:35
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  Bgurltryal

  ThiChi- "Get Your Own Board" What an easy out! Sounds just like the JWs! Lets be different...........

  Hehe...one person did:)

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=34955&site=3
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  ISP

  I think you have to get it in some perspective.....there have been few deletions and there has been an avalanche of posts and topics. I think we get the idea generally....about what to post and how to do it. I think we have free speech etc.

  ISP
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  MegaDude

  I think if Elsewhere wants to post pics of himself sleeping with Smurfs, he should have that right, dammit. Let freedom ring!
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  Elsewhere

  [GASP!!!] What? Did those pics get out?!?!?

  Damnit! There goes my reputation! Guess I don't have to pay the blackmailer anymore.
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  puzzled

  well there goes my income thaks a lot mega
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  MegaDude

  LOLOLOL Elsewhere and Puzzled.

  At least with Bboy's new board, the Smurf porn can be posted without deletion by the overly sensitive moderators here.