Posted by M5 on March 25, 1999 at 15:45:34 {MWKglaQqh7SVg}:
In Reply to: ****Post Deletion posted by clarification - J on March 25, 1999 at 13:42:03:
"One other comment I was going to post was that a lawsuit could be commenced for violating the freedom of speech of a participant of a public forum (outside the reasonable application of the rules)"
Very true, those who hate Jehovah's Witnesses could try using the legal system to shutdown the forum. H2O would shutdown to avoid its members anonymity being divulged, and surface months or years later elsewhere if someone did have the resources to try shutting down the forum.
You people seem willing to sacrifice all the good postings not removed by M14 and other moderators to preserve a few questionable ones? Should I not interpret this as political agenda? (Seeing that I've been acused of having one which I don't as God is my witness no matter what anyone claims.)
I could pull many posts M14 has chosen not to remove to prove his balance but I will not. The abundance of posts not removed are staring everyone in the face so why hold them in the air and exclaim "look!" People see. The board is not empty but contains thousands of posts many by N.H., J.H., Doug and those crying persecution. The archives are full of their posts. Let them try shutting H2O down by suing on free speech grounds. I calculate it would take several reams of paper for each one of them if printed on a Laserjet printer in the archives! H2O spent time actually ARCHIVING their posts whilst the backstabber crowd jeers we are censoring speech? People are not stupid. They see thousands of pages of most vehement speech from these ones filling the archives and email H2O daily accusing admins of being too (clearing throat) p-e-r-m-i-s-s-i-v-e! You can't argue that when each one of these constant complainers has megabytes of postings in our archives. The double edged sword is they want unsuspecting ones to find these posts but they probably would like them temporarily moved to prevent anyone who is new to H2O discovering their censorship claims are false.
M5