Thread: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Someone was spamming multiple forums today, complaining about me being an evil moderator who censored people despite their freedom of speech.

Let me make this perfectly clear: Freedom of speech does not exist in this forum. This is a privately owned forum where we gather as guests, abiding by the rules set forth by the owners.

I don't care about people's political opinion. I don't even care which topics are discussed or what people say, as long as content does not violate site rules. What I DO care about is 'how' things are said. In a discussion, I want people to use a certain measure of respect, or at least politeness. there is no need to be childish, petty, or rude.

So things like these:

Be careful around here or you'll get accused of "Spamming a shave forum with an anti-Obama rhetoric". Because as we know there can be no dissent.

Have no place on this forum. It's basically an accusation towards us. So yes, I temp banned the poster for that. I had already asked him not to post that because it is not true. I don't care about anyone's opinion of Obama, but I do care about people behaving properly.

You are welcome to participate in discussions here to your heart's content. You do not have a freedom of speech that allows you to be an asshole and say what you want in order to provoke or insult people. If you want that, then there are plenty of places on the internet where you are welcome to do so. This is not one of them.

EDIT: I did not close this thread. Feel free to share your opinion here.