[Rant] Freedom of speech is no more on a popular Amiga site. | ANN.lu |
Posted on 03-Feb-2004 15:32 GMT by Jordan Taylor | 238 comments View flat View list |
Today a so-called Amiga site which was supposed to allow freedom of speech has now become a exposed heavily censored website, webmasters acting like children insulting members of the site just because they stand up and say what they think.
I feel betrayed.
Check it out yourself here
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Posted by TheArrogantSarny on 07-Feb-2004 20:59 GMT | In reply to Comment 188 (Raffaele): > A Forum site is a public place as a restaurant, tearoom, etc...
> and in that you must serve the clients who enter.
And yet businesses in general (incl. restaurants and tearooms) are under no obligation to serve anyone. Ever heard of the phrase "We reserve the right to refuse to serve"?
Take a bar. Are you saying bar staff MUST serve (and therefore encourage) the drunk lout who is punching other customer? Would bouncers actually be conducting an illegal act if they chucked the idiot out?
Of course not!
Like it or not, posting on a website is a privelege.
Unlike a piddley website with little traffic, a major forum website costs money to run and requires a lot of effort to keep running.
For this reason alone we should respect the owners and more specifically the rules of all these sites for providing the service for free even if we don't actually like the sites themselves. And if the site has 'bouncers' to protect the other customers from the 'drunken louts' then so be it. |
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