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Originally posted by His High Holiness
All;
Several of you are missing Rex's point. He is not talking about the first amendment or whether eumpire has a RIGHT to delete posts. Of course they have the right. Rex is arguing about whether legal censorship is a wise policy. Most censorship is legal. Eumpire can legally censor anything on this site that it wants.
But it's still censorship. Too many posters are confusing government censorship which is illegal with private censorship which is legal.
Posting boards are learning forums. Rex's whole point is that learning is corrupted and disrupted when censorship takes place.
I agree.
Peter
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That may have been what he meant, but that is not what he wrote. He wrote about public forums available to all, removing words written by others (the inference I drew from that was in rex's view the writer somehow had rights to keep those words before the readers), etc.
This sounded to me like he was arguing against censorship on this site from a perspective of principle, not from a perspective of practical.
Maybe I misunderstood. It wouldn't be the first time (or the last, I'm afraid.)