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To: unfairCENSOR
Let's say that you have been a lurker for a very long time, as you have not been a member of FR for very long, you must admit. If you had, you would know better than to replay for the umteenth time the same old tired boilerplate about FreeRepublic becoming a "thought police state" etc. and so on. Why? because you would have seen the many, many, many previous examples of various complainant's rationales, and their almost immediate and complete factual refutation by veteran members of FR.

You are not being censored. Your First Ammendment rights are not being trampled. You have the perfect right to post on the web. No one here is stopping you. You are even free to start your own political web site. This is not censorship because FR is private and independent, and is not a government run or subsidized enterprise. It was founded and is run, funded with voluntary contributions, by an LLC established by Jim Robinson. There are rules and guidelines that are to be adhered to, without which FR would certainly descend into the kind of pointless vile spamming and profane gridlock of bickering we have all seen happen with other, less conscientiously moderated, political web sites and Usenet forums. The FreeRepublic is hardly a "party line" organ of propaganda; if you had spent any time here at all, you would have witnessed quite a number of spirited discussions, debates, arguments, and variety of opinion regarding just about every topic ever discussed by sentient beings. But, that does not include "disruption," - abuse, deliberate baiting and antagonism, spamming, hacking, use of profanity, ad hominem attacks, racial slurs, etc. etc. etc. None of these activities could be regarded as free political speech, unless your aim were to destroy the atmosphere of logical and healthy debate we so cherish here. Those who engage in aforesaid "disruption" of this website are the guilty parties in the issue of the violation of the First Ammendment guarantees of free, political speech.

Perhaps I should save this post and use it as a standard reply to the routine boilerplate accusations of censorship we see here periodically. What do you think, Jim?

312 posted on 11/27/2002 6:54:16 PM PST by Richard Axtell
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To: Richard Axtell
as you have not been a member of FR for very long, you must admit

But read my post 301 above. Our friend is LYING about this. He's saying to us "help I'm new here, please tell me what it's all about" while a week ago he was attacking a Freeper and revealing himself to have been previously in many Freep debates with that Freeper.

So one thing we know about our supposedly "new" Freeper: he's lying about being new.
316 posted on 11/27/2002 6:57:41 PM PST by FreeTheHostages
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