Email: The Future of Free Republic

Email | 06/25/02 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

The following email is being circulated to our members by various disgruntled former FReepers:

Subject: The Future of Our Free Republic

Dear Fellow Free Republic Member,

Many of us at Free Republic are distressed by the extraordinary level of censorship that has been so obviously going on. It is very obvious that individual posts, entire threads, and the entire work of members who have been highly regarded are disappearing into a Memory Hole.

Scores of us have organized an e-mail network that is independent of the communication controls presently, and sadly, being used at our Free Republic. We have carefully documented the unmistakeable evidence that most of the posts, threads, and posters that are vaporized completely are overwhelmingly targeted for their political stance on the Right. These are not Leftwingers. These are not even Middle-of-the-Roaders. These are not disruptors. These are not foul-mouthed delinquents. These are fellow patriots on the Right who disagree with the controllers of FR on specific issues that are now hotly debated by the Right. We have documented that FR will parade before you, as if to hide all of the great posters whose work has been destroyed, a straw-man delinquent that has been banned. This is deceptive.

Treating these fellow patriots on the Right so shabbily is not right. As shabbily as those banned into the Memory Hole are being treated, the most shabbily treated of all are all of the good folks on Free Republic themselves. We came here for honest debate. Free Republic advertised itself as a Forum for honest debate. Without that honest debate...everything at Free Republic becomes shabby.

We can do much better. As a measure of how intense the simmering feelings have gotten among members on this unjustifiable use of deleting, censoring, and banning please link to the following thread. You will notice that one simple and sincere plea from one of our finest members has spontaneously touched off a prairie fire of approximately 500 posts in a mere 18 hours. If it isn't Memory Holed this thread may shoot into the thousands.

If you would like to receive anonymous updates of information concerning the hundreds of Freepers who have networked via e-mail to restore the wonderful honest debate to Free Republic, just drop an e-mail of just one or two words if you like for extreme brevity to:

StopCensoringUs@hotmail.com

And, here's that link back to the snowballing thread at FR:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/704701/posts

Thank you so much for giving your thought to this vital matter for our Internet home.

Sincerely, StopCensoringUs@hotmail.com

[ruoflaw]

ref your #164...I think you are right!

[MamaB]

Isn't that the truth? i belonged to several Yahoo groups that were supposed to be supporters of President Bush but posters were anything but that so I quit going to them. If I wanted to read that nonesense, I would just go to DU!!!! I am just now getting on the computer. Lightning struck a relay station or something and knocked power off in this part of town. What a mess!!!! MamaB

[Libertarian4Bush]

well, the bottom line is, if you alienate me, and marginalize yourself and your causes, I'm less likely to spend energy to further them. so you can incorporate us and defeat liberalism, or you can kick me, and others like me, off your website for being logical. which is more likely to help the GOP win the senate?

[Roscoe]

This thread is about the whiny, snivelling anti-FReepers who pout like three year-old children because Jim Robinson won't alow them free access to vandalize his home. Invariably, when they run away to form their own "completely uncensored" political debate site, it ends up a disaster as they begin to turn on and devour each other.

Over and over again. Has anybody been keeping count?

[PhiKapMom]

Notice the mention of the word Nazi again in a post which you picked up on! This is right out of the DemocRAT playbook and has been picked up by some Freepers when they don't like something!

I would like to know why!

[Freedom2specul8]

Really.... now that is interesting. There is a forum that i help moderate too. well, I've backed off for a brief hiatus for the past couple of months..but have been there since '97. We've had our share of major disruptors, from racists, to just people who dislike conservatives and/or conservative values. We do allow all other political persuasions because they are there to debate...while it does turn into insult throwing wars at times..on a whole it's been fairly easy. Sometimes things have gotten personal...due to the nature of forums can we can't tell whether a person is in a sarcastic mood... the use of smileys and frowns helps....but not enough sometimes.

[Jim Robinson]

Was a software/database related problem. We got it fixed.

Thanks, Jim

[MamaB]

What happened to Byron??? Just curious!!!!!!! MamaB

[OWK]

I have noticed that most FReepers catch imposters...

----Imagine picture of Boomhauer here---------

Gotta-ketchemole-daggum-mposters-nowhutumsayin...

[Jim Robinson]

That's why we had to put the warning label on our front page.

[PhiKapMom]

There is also word out that the DemocRATS are using the words Nazi and things to do with that time period in Germany against conservatives to stir up trouble. Think we have some of that on here.

[maxwell]

----Imagine picture of Boomhauer here---------
Gotta-ketchemole-daggum-mposters-nowhutumsayin...

Bwahaha...

Yep.

[tax hater]

Jim,

The First Amendment has nothing to do discussing Atheism...And by allowing the discussion of atheism in this forum, no one's First Amendment rights will be violated...

Well, I forgot about the right to be dumb, stupid and ignorant...

The removal of honest legit posts is what drives away most people from this place...

You are afraid to hear or discuss religion...I know, it's taboo for most religious people

[dennisw]

So you stand by your lies about Jenin and the Warsaw ghetto. (The mark of the utter foooooool.) Am I supposed to be impressed or feel sorry for you?

[AppyPappy]

It can't be too bad. You are still hanging around.

[MamaB]

What is Liberty Forum? Never heard of it. Have I missed anything??????? MamaB

[Roscoe]

This free lunch is terrible. I can hardly force myself to keep eating.

[Jim Robinson]

Hah! I don't hunt them down. They never leave.

[Dan from Michigan]

As the gun instructor Massad Ayoob says about gun free zones..."Don't go where you are not wanted".

As for those that do nothing but b**tch about this site, yet want to log in and troll, why in the hell don't they do something to work toward liberty like they claim?

While most boards have a lot of 'talk', on this board there are a number of people that put their money where their mouth is when it comes to freedom. THAT'S what I like about this site. There are a large number of 'doers' here instead of all talkers.

BTW...I thought Todd Fahey thought this site was going under...guess it didn't.