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Thread ID: 47878 2004-08-08 04:27:00 I'd like to know JJJJJ (528) Press F1
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259363 2004-08-08 04:27:00 I'd like to know why some bigot put a padlock on the the thread
"I wunna learn German". No explanation either.
Do I detect a bios on the part of a moderator?
Jack
JJJJJ (528)
259364 2004-08-08 04:59:00 >Do I detect a bios on the part of a moderator?

Not unless he's the mother of a German board....
Growly (6)
259365 2004-08-08 05:46:00 It seems that personal opinions contrary to popular opinion are deemed "offensive" - as the thread said, here comes the 1984 "Big Brother", what ever happened to free speech? andrew93 (249)
259366 2004-08-08 05:55:00 > I'd like to know why some bigot put a padlock on the
> the thread

No marks for guessing which particular post was a dud ..
TonyF (246)
259367 2004-08-08 06:03:00 I didn't lock it. But looking at it I can see why. Jack, you ask the question but you know our rules. If you want political free speech go somewhere offering that. Pressf1 makes no pretence to offer a poltical forum. Our rule is to keep it friendly and that thread was heading anywhere but friendly. There were already several posts in it that in my opion incited hatred. No further discussion neccessary. Biggles (121)
259368 2004-08-08 06:12:00 >It seems that personal opinions contrary to popular opinion are deemed "offensive"

Maybe even: It seems that personal opinions contrary to politically correct opinion are deemed "offensive".

We dont really know what the popular opinions are because these days people are too scared of Big Brother.

Take the case of David Irving, he started off as a very fine historian, uncovering the Nazi atomic bomb development reported in his book "The Mares Nest" amongst other things.

Ok he has in more recent years seemed to go off the rails a bit with his ideas of how Churchill schemed and plotted assassinations, whitewashing the Nazi atrocities etc, but I just wonder how many of the people vilifying him have actually read any of his works.

Yet we have to accept the decisions of our elected government (until the nexr election), and to accept this forums moderators decisions also.
Terry Porritt (14)
259369 2004-08-08 06:12:00 Did ANYONE get my funny joke?!?!?!

Oh dear...
Growly (6)
259370 2004-08-08 06:16:00 Yes I did, Growlly, I even assumed Jack deliberately said 'bios' :) Terry Porritt (14)
259371 2004-08-08 06:54:00 Tres amusant Growly.

I was a bit suprised to see the padlock but not troubled. However the specific contentious post was ignored so I doubt the discussion was going nuclear.

I don't have a problem with moderators stepping in although it seemed unnecessary in this case. Robust debate makes for a much more interesting world.
Winston001 (3612)
259372 2004-08-08 07:11:00 Excellent. Growly (6)
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