Really enjoying the stealth censorship here.

[Secret Agent Man]

This place is getting more like facebook and twitter, stealthly deleting posts for not stated reasons.

Sometimes whole topics.

You don't know they're gone until you browse your comments and find they don't exist anymore.

Way to go censors. 20+ year guy here and i will say this is a new level of low.

Read it while you can, i am sure whoever's deleting comments tonight will not want to have this out there.

[deport]

Try here at you convenience and see what you get

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=bulls

[minnesota_bound]

Breitbart / Disqus does this when I mention George Soros.

[Ken Regis]

“No” to what??

I was referring to the series of threads I saw on Sunday evening - 5 or 6 of them - all gone (at your discretion.)

AND I support your RIGHT to censor whatever you want.

Please read my posts on the topic. Maybe you accidentally lumped me in with someone else?

[Jim Robinson]

Oh, you could be referring to the series of anti-Catholic threads I pulled?

[EasySt]

Yes, Jim. It was one of those anti-Q troll threads, but with a difference that may explain why it was allowed to exist for over 4 days and something more than 1079 posts.

Amidst the usual noise an actual productive and unifying discussion was taking place with some quite well thought posts. And lots of people had their noise filters working well enough to participate gracefully.

You are wise to wall off the Q battles, because actual modern warfare goes on there. (Like the Generals I keep trying to get people to pay attention to, have been telling us.) (See my post #17 in this thread.)

We’re learning to archive now, so no worries! We all appreciate FR, and your efforts to keep it relevant and keep the peace.

Thanks Jim. Free Republic is my choice for a base of operations.

[KosmicKitty]

Maybe because the Viking kitties have been replaced by PBR cat?

[Gay State Conservative]

I've always assumed that deleted posts/threads are usually due to some kind of profanity or personal insult...or copyright issues.

[EasySt]

Thanks Comment Not Approved!

That means my work in this thread is done.

(And I can get back to "The Ongoing Education of Bagster".)

[SamAdams76]

I never have a problem with censorship here. I am always posting excerpts from my blog. Just a paragraph or two to get people interested enough to click through.

Then the revenue just POURS in.

I love this place.

[EasySt]

One last note.

When I started trying to get people to pay attention to
General Brown’s March 3rd video, what, a week or so ago?...

That video only had hundreds of views.

Not the almost 1.2 million it has today.

~Easy

[Berlin_Freeper]

Denis Leary - (Uncensored Version)

[Fightin Whitey]

pick them up by the case from the dollar store.

Aww don't be so...Humble.

[daniel1212]

Actually, while Catholics regularly promote their elitist church and can attack Protestants with posted thread articles, they have pretty much acquired special protection against articles being posted as threads which attack Catholicism, as well as to many sites that do, though they have attacked their own pope so much that they RM (Religious Moderator) said he would remove the Catholic Caucus label on a thread attacking the pope because it was about a non-Catholic.

But that does not mean all posts will be pulled which attack Catholic beliefs or that of any others, since the RMs' own rules state (excerpts),

It is ok to express hatred towards CatholicISM on “open” Religion Forum threads. It is never ok to express hatred towards Catholics because some Freepers are Catholic. It is ok to express hatred towards ProtestantISM on “open” Religion Forum threads. It is never ok to express hatred towards Protestants because some Freepers are Protestant. The main guideline to posting on the Religion Forum: ”Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.”... However, when a poster paints with a brush that accuses an entire religion of criminal behavior - his post will be pulled as flame bait.

Posters may argue for or against beliefs, deities, religious authorities, etc. They may tear down other’s beliefs. They may ridicule. “Open” RF debate is often contentious. It requires thick skin. A poster must be able to make his points while standing his ground, suffering adverse remarks about his beliefs - or letting them roll off his back. Members of religions which are as much culture as belief sometimes take religious debate personally. If you keep getting your feelings hurt because other posters ridicule or disapprove or hate what you hold dear, then you are too thin-skinned to be involved in “open” RF debate. You should IGNORE “open” RF threads altogether and instead post to RF threads labeled “prayer” “devotional” “caucus” or “ecumenical.”

But if a thread is making unsubstantiated charges, as this one is, then I can see why it might get pulled.

[dforest]

He has been suspended for years. He has a “stealth” way of getting around being suspended.

[Elsie]

The original poster can have HIS entire post; comments and all; removed if he so wishes.

An individual replier to a post can have his reply removed.

I have known this for a long time.

[Elsie]

I have posted a moderate 1200 threads and do not believe even one has been pulled.

In over 20 years; I have...

...posted a total of 51 threads and 174,875 replies.

(Data found under ACCOUNT tab)

I've no recollection of stuff being pulled (although I'm sure it has; since I've had a few; ahem; vacations from FR occasionly ;*)

[Elsie]

Pulled replies sometimes have a ripple effect when someone else replies to the pulled one BEFORE it gets pulled.

There may be some residue left from the first yanked comment.

[Elsie]

A locked thread can still be read; just not replied to.

[Elsie]

A thread was pulled the other day calling the belief in tenets of Catholicism on this board “disgusting”.

But just WHO had it pulled?

I've seen Catholic threads that were NOT going the way the original poster had forseen and THEY then had it pulled.

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How does one know whether the MODS had it pulled: just because; or the creator of the post?

I have no answer for this one.

[Elsie]

To start learning how to archive their stuff offline.

Been doing this for DECADES!