Cedars: There will always be the question of whether you are being hypocritical by complaining about the Society's "information control" whilst censoring your own visitors. I get that argument thrown at me a lot.
It's not like you'll ever see an opposing view printed in a WT or an Awake! or on the shiny, new jw.org website. Seriously!
At the risk of stating the obvious Cedars, it's YOUR website. You can allow whatever contrary comments you want or not.
As moderator of your website, you can choose to allow reasonable disagreement; likewise, you can choose to delete rambling rants that go nowhere, but only seek to inflame.
Let 'em watch Jerry Springer or Chris Matthews if they need controversy.
Think of traditional newspapers. They generally have an opinion page or a "Letters to the Editor" page. Do they print everything they get? Of course not. If the paper is good, they'll print a representative cross-section of views on a given topic. But they generally only print the ones that have at least a modicum of well thought out statements and have coherent prose. Also, papers reserve the right to edit the content of what they print, although hopefully doing so in a way that preserves the authors intent and doesn't distort their arguments.
I'm just sayin' is all!
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