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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (19805)	3/23/2000 2:19:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42523

I for one won't give RB a click if I can avoid it. If you really think SI is bad about censorship, you haven't had a lot of dealing with RB. One fellow tried to point out what was going on with ECNC, and they kept pulling his posts because the longs didn't like him 'bashing'. RB really did a service to the ECNC longs there, didn't they? At least SI doesn't censor based on your ideas...is it really that hard to not curse? Regards, Barb

To: KeepItSimple who wrote (19805)	3/23/2000 3:42:00 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42523

Kis, There are several people here who are reporting people on this thread to SI bob whenever a curse word is used, and we have simply decided there is no point in staying on a system that allows opponents to supress free speech. As a bystander to all of this, I'm pretty shocked that you could make those statements with a straight face. I would be at a loss to guess whether Luc has used a curse word more or less often than he has predicted the market is going to crash tomorrow [or within the next few days at the latest]. And there is more than a fine line between something like this "damn market" and "you're a damn moron". Each uses a curse word, but the latter should get you booted off. If one were to have at your fingertips the times that Luc has used a paraphrasing of the latter....he would have been booted off SI a dozen times a day....when you apply the "whenever a curse word is used" criteria. "Free speech". SI has regulated speech [see terms and conditions] that we all supposedly have agreed to. So let's have some acknowledgement that the conditions have been [and were] repeatedly violated. IMO, any reasonable person would conclude that SI and the SI members are exceptionally tolerant given the number of repeated violations. jttmab