Censorship

[Montanarchist]

What is eplaya's policy on removing threads, and/or limiting access?

As for ToS violations I was just the victim and they are on the thread "Page 2" but are related to the thread that is no longer accessable called "Don't Call it Gun Control"

[Montanarchist]

Read all the post made in chronological order from the time around the "Small dick energy" pay y and it'll be obvious.

Being a queer gun loving anarchist I'm used to people trying to bully me but I won't tolerate censorship.

M

[Lonesomebri]

So your guns didn't help ya? Go cry elsewhere. Thank god for political correctness, otherwise everyone would be calling you retarded.

[The Rod]

My favorite eplaya feature is that we can choose to CENSOR whoever we want by adding them to the foe (CENSOR) list.

[Skuzzy61]

Read all the post made in chronological order from the time around the "Small dick energy" pay y and it'll be obvious.

Being a queer gun loving anarchist I'm used to people trying to bully me but I won't tolerate censorship.

M

Bulletin boards can be run however the admins want to run them. Simple solution: If you do not care for how it is run, then stop posting. Ta-Da!

[AntiM]

Bulletin boards can be run however the admins want to run them. Simple solution: If you do not care for how it is run, then stop posting. Ta-Da!

Bingo. We remove posts or ban users all the time. Our rules, and we do abide by them. Don't like it, go create 3playa, or something similar. It's been done before. This is not a free for all forum, and has a long history of new users complaining they can't shit all over every discussion as it pleases them. Don't like it, we are not the venue for your interests, do try elsewhere.

I'm still trying to puzzle out the censorship. People aren't engaging the way the OP wants? What was removed? I see nothing placed in quarantine or Removed Topics. Were you cross-posting or posting in incorrect forums? We move topics around are needed, or merge them.

[Montanarchist]

My post was removed or I didn't have access. Check the where I posted about in in the EXclusion thread You will note that once it was restored I haven't said anything else about it.

I never would dispute your right to do with your property as you like, but I was lead to believe in Radical Inclusion. Sure my opinion and facts may not be popular but I haven't violated and rules and my behavior (ad hominem attacks) have been more polite by an order of magnitude, or more.

[AntiM]

Please provide links when you mention topics.

We're big on Civic Responsibility and Community Effort. Also, Radical Inclusion only means allowing participation, not that anyone has to like you.

[The Rod]

not that anyone does

[Lonesomebri]

For such big dick energy, sure is a little prick. I've been blocked here on eplaya, I don't know, 2 or 3 or 4 times, been blocked on facebook over a dozen. Not once did I cry "censorship". Not once. I'm an adult.

As for radical inclusion, the governor and legislation of Montana MUST be made anti-gun rights activists, excluding that is a violation of some clowns inclusion ethics. Everyone must be tolerated, I think Karl Popper mentioned this paradox. Wish that putupon guy would go make his own backyard inclusive instead of forcing everyone else to get sick of him.

Back to that attention craving victimhood censorshipped rant: Hell, I've had moderators gangpile on me. Been mocked and insulted repeatedly. Banned from facebook right now. I was banned from a Stoic group because they didn't like what I said, while they say nothing affects or bothers them. Not allowed in any Applebee's in the 3 state region. At the Burn I've had people complain to me about my blinkie light, while the night is lit with exploding pyrotechnics, blown tanks of propane, burning structures, lasers shooting off of 3 story high sound systems. I had found the light on the playa blinking, moop, it would not turn off... (Boy, is there an analogy with this whole exchange and that light...) Alas, now thinking back, I should have accused those complainers of censorship, stifling artistic expression, yadda yadda.

And, still under the drift of nostalgic memory, the time we stopped some creepy tech bro none of knew from going back into our camp to wait in our campmate's tent until she came back, ...he had only talked to her once the day before, she was not expecting a visit... Who later informed us he was creepy... Were we the bad guys for not allowing radical inclusion? As I led him to the street he told me my camp wasn't going to be put on his Burning Man map app. I told him "Get the hell off my property"

[Montanarchist]

Without cause is the part you're having problems understanding obviously, but there's more to this. Your reaction is typical of retriggering of cognitive dissonance. If you have someone you talk with it would probably be worth discussing the topic.

[JohnEBGud]

I've owned and administrated a music related BB for the past twenty years. A partial solution to the censorship problem was to establish a "Grease Pit" category to which off-topic and policy violating content was moved. Those interested in rolling in the mud can go there to flame and insult each other to their heart's content. Further, this area of the forum is only visible to signed-in members so it's off-limits to search engines and those who happen to casually stumble upon the forum, so visitors need not be exposed to that garbage.

The surprising thing was that after implementing it, the need for it drastically decreased. I attribute this to the fact that troublemakers are often seeking attention and approval and relegating their flame baiting rants and insults to area out of the mainstream subject of the forum doesn't serve their agenda.

It seems though, over the past six years, and especially since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the bad actors have become more strident and confrontational and now feel that they should be able say whatever they want wherever they are. I no longer have the patience to deal with such people so if they continually push back, they're gone.

Like the principle of Radical Inclusion, the First Amendment and the concept of free speech are often misinterpreted. Forums are communities and have community standards. Any given community standard must be interpreted in the context of all the community standards at large, just as any individual Burning Man Principle needs to be considered in the context of the other nine.