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To: Grit
"That pretty much says it all. "

Made me cock my head to the side and say "Huh??"

I presume they mean how we will allow a person to slander someone. But as the article points out, when people post addresses of people, FR is very good about removing it and banning that person. Too bad they wont do a hit on DUh.com. They want venomous hate...there it is
18 posted on 01/31/2003 5:15:33 AM PST by smith288
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To: smith288; Grit
"Speech is tolerated there that wouldn't be elsewhere"
That pretty much says it all.

Made me cock my head to the side and say "Huh??"

I presume they mean how we will allow a person to slander someone. But as the article points out, when people post addresses of people, FR is very good about removing it and banning that person.

In the case of public-posting as we do here on FR, the management cannot after all prevent the initial posting of unacceptable material and cannot be responsible for such material if due diligence is exerted to remove offensive items. Usually a moderator is available, and offensive items posted to FR get flagged and deleted rather quickly.

A publication or web site actually defines itself by what it will NOT publish; someone pointed out that if a FReeper ever did the FR equivalent of posting porn--as some miscreant did a while back--they would post pictures of President Reagan on DU. The porn, and the more typical smart-alec text posting by liberals, constitutes noise to FReepers, disincentives to FReepers and lurkers. It is for that reason that the moderators remove it, and are right to do so.

Those whose postings are removed by the moderator have recourse, of course--they can post to a site which accepts their input or they can create one which does (attracting traffic to such a site is their problem). First Amendment Freedom lives on the web!

38 posted on 01/31/2003 6:42:11 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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