HarryK wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 5:15 pm
Ooky is a damm smart cookie. And so is Kath. It’s just a shame that this board doesn’t allow their free speech and the right of rebuttal.
I must've missed where Martin banned them from the forum, deactivated their accounts, or deleted their posts.
If those didn't happen then I'm not sure how their free speech was "not allowed"?
If I were to post that I think Jesse Jackson is a race-baiting piece of shit, and you and a dozen others come back and reply to me that you disagree, you haven't "not allowed" my free speech. I may decide this place isn't worth my time and leave, stop posting, that is my free choice based on my own free will - you still will not have in any way "not allowed" my free speech since it was my choice to leave, right?
If you can't "take the heat" then maybe the internet isn't the place for you.
If, OTOH, you ban me from the forum, delete my account, etc - THEN, yes, you would be disallowing my free speech. That is active censorship. Typically this happens when one has no counterargument and/or are afraid of any other narrative but their own. It is not really a position of strength.
The ego always blinds a person from the truth, the humble learns to shut up and listens.
Two birds, whose feet are tied together, have four wings... Yet cannot fly.
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