RE: So..what happened to
There are also laws against hate speech in this country and nobody ever said this forum was a place to promote racism. I never saw the original thread and neither did you. Peapod made a call based on some phrasing and a complaint from another poster. That's part of her role as a moderator...to make calls exactly like that.
It would be another matter if this sort of thing happened here all the time, but it doesn't. The other sites that we've spoken about delete dissenting views, not based on possibly objectional material but because they simply do not agree with the politcal bent of those views, on a regular basis. Some of them have been known not only to ban people for holding those views, but to post people's IPs.
I've had, at various sites, my posts changed; supporting links deleted; my e-mail address published; and my IP passed around. I've been flamed, stalked, abused, physically threatened, and received e-mails and PMs from people who are mentally unbalanced. I even had one guy send a threatening e-mail to my mother.
That isn't much of a problem here because things are moderated as fairly as possible, but they are moderated. There is no absolute freedom of speech. I've been to sites where that's been tried, most of them are gone now. Many citing legal issues as their reason for shutting down.
Usually we will edit a personal attack or obscenity by noting it as such, but leave the post and thread as much intact as possible. In this case a moderator chose to delete the thread. I'm not going to second guess her. I never saw the original post and even if I did, racial issues can be very touchy and people's perceptions of what has been said can lead to different decisions.
It was her decision to make and she made it. She's given nobody any reason to question her integrity or the integrity of Canadian Content.
There are also laws against hate speech in this country and nobody ever said this forum was a place to promote racism. I never saw the original thread and neither did you. Peapod made a call based on some phrasing and a complaint from another poster. That's part of her role as a moderator...to make calls exactly like that.
It would be another matter if this sort of thing happened here all the time, but it doesn't. The other sites that we've spoken about delete dissenting views, not based on possibly objectional material but because they simply do not agree with the politcal bent of those views, on a regular basis. Some of them have been known not only to ban people for holding those views, but to post people's IPs.
I've had, at various sites, my posts changed; supporting links deleted; my e-mail address published; and my IP passed around. I've been flamed, stalked, abused, physically threatened, and received e-mails and PMs from people who are mentally unbalanced. I even had one guy send a threatening e-mail to my mother.
That isn't much of a problem here because things are moderated as fairly as possible, but they are moderated. There is no absolute freedom of speech. I've been to sites where that's been tried, most of them are gone now. Many citing legal issues as their reason for shutting down.
Usually we will edit a personal attack or obscenity by noting it as such, but leave the post and thread as much intact as possible. In this case a moderator chose to delete the thread. I'm not going to second guess her. I never saw the original post and even if I did, racial issues can be very touchy and people's perceptions of what has been said can lead to different decisions.
It was her decision to make and she made it. She's given nobody any reason to question her integrity or the integrity of Canadian Content.
