Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[Brian37]

Yes the staff has become the Gestapo and so much so you don't have a line through your name. So much so that the rule states no one can act by themselves and one dissenting vote negates the action of  ban. You got em, it's now summary public execution..........

First off this is a PRIVATELY owned website. When we talk about free speech, that is a government aspect, this is not government owned media. Now even given that, having been on this website for years now, they do a far better job allowing different viewpoints and blasphemy and strong language, than even TV and newspaper websites. 

I have been on tons of social media, and have experienced both theist and atheist pages that boot people at the first peep they don't like. This website from what I see goes way out of it's way, being privately owned, to allow a variety of voices. If I thought for one second they were PC kneejerk reactionaries which boot at the firs peep, I would not be here at all. I have left plenty of atheist pages on social media that do that on par with some theist websites. TRUST ME, 15 years of being on tons of social media, this page can hardly be accused of having a staff full of power mongers.

That I might be wrong or not about this doesn't concern whether I can criticise them or not. Naturally, they can disallow me from criticising them, but as long as they won't, I will. While they are under no pressure to accept my criticism and change I will nevertheless criticise when I see fit that I do so. A flawed website that isn't willing to change its problematic policies is likely to lose at least part of its membership due to those flaws. I am determined to point out said flaws wherever I perceive them.

The irony is strong in this post. I haven't felt this much irony since............