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To: Matt Brown who wrote (17539)5/24/2003 3:06:32 PM
From: mmmary  Read Replies (1) of 32883
 
RE: Matt: questions

1. SI and IHUB are private communities. You must sign up to post here. You must agree with TOU to sign up. You must agree than anything "offensive" in any way can be removed. Admin can choose what is offensive or not. They are not open public forums which encourage freedom of speech, quite the opposite. Bob doesn't find the word "bit-slapping" to be offensive but others might. You find the word "hypocrit" to be offensive but I don't. These boards are ruled by the whims of admin.

2. I personally feel there should be no moderated boards. The moderating should be up to admin. Admin must be fair and objective in their moderation. I do feel that anyone who uses obscene language, honestly attacks someone personally (i.e. jane, you common ignorant ****), posts confidential, private information or spams should have his offending posts deleted, put on suspension. If he does it repeatedly, booted after three suspensions in a year.

3. There definitely should never be any moderated boards for stocks. It just encourages scammers. Look at agoracom. Two promoters run the npct board. They have a bunch of losers corralled in there like sheep that they shear daily with their bull. Moderated stock boards encourage, aid and abet fraud.

4. No boards should be moderated. As long as admin is enforcing the tou, there's nothing wrong with an open forum. I never deleted posts from my otcbb scam board. I had no problem with people not agreeing with me.

5. Censorship is interfering with any speech that is not illegal (yelling fire in a theater, obscenities in front of minors), harassment (calling someone negative names repeatedly in public with no basis) or completely untrue (saying someone is a child molester when they are not). If someone goes to a private forum such as ihub and si and they have tou, people must follow them but admin must be fair.

p.s. I actually read that it's legal to lie. Lying is freedom of speech. Lying which causes emotional or monetary damages which can be proven in a court of law is not legal. I don't believe we have the freedom to lie. I'm against this.
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