Funny you should mention it. One of my posts did get pulled. It turned out I was debating someone who worked for IJ, and he decided it was easier simply to cancel my post than to attempt to refute it. I called them on it, because it was done on a whim, not because it was inappropriate.
I\’m not quite sure what your point is. I\’m not asking anyone to be one-sided. If you\’re not clear on the distinction between speech that is constitutionally protected and that which is not, I recommend you Google \”free speech.\” If you think \”free speech\” means IJ is required to publish comments that include swear words or other content they deem inappropriate, inane or embarrassing, you are simply wrong.
If you were the editor, tell me which posts you feel have no place on this board. Please list the author\’s name and time posted. Since you brought this up, you must have some posts in mind. I will not expect you to come through on this because I know you would never want to admit your true intent. You may also reply and say it is not you job to edit this board. Well if that is true, why would you even suggest this to the editors?
There were two postings before you put up your asinine post wanting to limit fee speech. Which of these post do you feel contained \”swear words\” or anything inappropriate to be posted? Do you think someone\’s opinion should not be posted?
I\’m at a loss to understand why you think anyone is trying to limit free speech. Rob expressed the opinion that IJ was exposing itself to ridicule by allowing certain comments to remain on the message board. I won\’t speak for him, but perhaps he thought the intellectual quality of some of the comments was so low and embarrassing that the best business decision IJ could make would be to remove them. It\’s like when FoxNews.com edits the transcripts of the O\’Reilly Factor whenever O\’Reilly says something he shouldn\’t have. Does that mean they\’ve restricted his free speech rights? Of course not. They\’re making a business decision to limit the damage caused by the actual remarks.
I recommend you reread the posts. Nowhere did anyone say IJ should limit anyone\’s free speech (as if they could).
I take a week to travel with my partner, and I come home to THIS! I wonder how Curious George and crew will respond to their own people warning about the cost of global warming? Probably by having Alberto Gonzalez fire the people that wrote this report too!
It is a business, those caving into it are fools. There is nothing that has happened in the past 20 years that has not happened before in history. As for Global Warming, this has been the coldest winter in years. Also, the loose screws on the left thing the ice is melting in the north, check out this article on how two vessels are stuck up in Canadian waters………. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/04/21/4091861-cp.html
I appreciate the spirit of community dialogue, but the editors have a responsibility to moderate/delete the inappropriate comments…and no one is doing that. Moderate or shut down the comments area for the sake of your reputation.
Because if I were a competing on-line news service, blog, newsletter seeking out limited advertisers…I\’d just point prospects to these comment threads as a showcase of your audience.
I can tell you from first hand experience that they do monitor this site. They are a bit slow to yank inappropriate postings. I\’ve seen entire threads disappear from this site but as long as the conversations don\’t get too far out of hand, they let the comments stand.
My other suggestion is that if you don\’t like the comments that are posted, you could go to the other sites…
OK everyone, stay calm, the Inconvenient Truth is inconvenient, there isn;t one shred of scientific evidence that proves all of us bad folks are ruining mother earth, and the real scientists have sufficient evidence to prove it. But, look at the pork barrel;
$50 billion for the UN, $100 Billion for …..???????
This ezine prints what they think if important, this isn\’t, so give them another chance, maybe they\’ll see the light, ice caps, no caps…whatever.
Check out Ms. Crow, one square of toilet paper, I hope she has a lot of laundry soap, cologne, underwear, whatever..
Sun\’s getting hotter. Mars is heating up too and it\’s polar ice caps are shrinking like ours.
Get a grip, people, don\’t be fooled.
Al Gore, who flunked out of two grad schools, produces movies and sells carbon credits exploiting his ideas and,on the other hand, lives like a king.
Hint: Star Trek was just a movie
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Funny you should mention it. One of my posts did get pulled. It turned out I was debating someone who worked for IJ, and he decided it was easier simply to cancel my post than to attempt to refute it. I called them on it, because it was done on a whim, not because it was inappropriate.
I\’m not quite sure what your point is. I\’m not asking anyone to be one-sided. If you\’re not clear on the distinction between speech that is constitutionally protected and that which is not, I recommend you Google \”free speech.\” If you think \”free speech\” means IJ is required to publish comments that include swear words or other content they deem inappropriate, inane or embarrassing, you are simply wrong.
If you were the editor, tell me which posts you feel have no place on this board. Please list the author\’s name and time posted. Since you brought this up, you must have some posts in mind. I will not expect you to come through on this because I know you would never want to admit your true intent. You may also reply and say it is not you job to edit this board. Well if that is true, why would you even suggest this to the editors?
There were two postings before you put up your asinine post wanting to limit fee speech. Which of these post do you feel contained \”swear words\” or anything inappropriate to be posted? Do you think someone\’s opinion should not be posted?
Dirk,
I\’m at a loss to understand why you think anyone is trying to limit free speech. Rob expressed the opinion that IJ was exposing itself to ridicule by allowing certain comments to remain on the message board. I won\’t speak for him, but perhaps he thought the intellectual quality of some of the comments was so low and embarrassing that the best business decision IJ could make would be to remove them. It\’s like when FoxNews.com edits the transcripts of the O\’Reilly Factor whenever O\’Reilly says something he shouldn\’t have. Does that mean they\’ve restricted his free speech rights? Of course not. They\’re making a business decision to limit the damage caused by the actual remarks.
I recommend you reread the posts. Nowhere did anyone say IJ should limit anyone\’s free speech (as if they could).
I take a week to travel with my partner, and I come home to THIS! I wonder how Curious George and crew will respond to their own people warning about the cost of global warming? Probably by having Alberto Gonzalez fire the people that wrote this report too!
It is a business, those caving into it are fools. There is nothing that has happened in the past 20 years that has not happened before in history. As for Global Warming, this has been the coldest winter in years. Also, the loose screws on the left thing the ice is melting in the north, check out this article on how two vessels are stuck up in Canadian waters……….
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/04/21/4091861-cp.html
I appreciate the spirit of community dialogue, but the editors have a responsibility to moderate/delete the inappropriate comments…and no one is doing that. Moderate or shut down the comments area for the sake of your reputation.
Because if I were a competing on-line news service, blog, newsletter seeking out limited advertisers…I\’d just point prospects to these comment threads as a showcase of your audience.
I can tell you from first hand experience that they do monitor this site. They are a bit slow to yank inappropriate postings. I\’ve seen entire threads disappear from this site but as long as the conversations don\’t get too far out of hand, they let the comments stand.
My other suggestion is that if you don\’t like the comments that are posted, you could go to the other sites…
OK everyone, stay calm, the Inconvenient Truth is inconvenient, there isn;t one shred of scientific evidence that proves all of us bad folks are ruining mother earth, and the real scientists have sufficient evidence to prove it. But, look at the pork barrel;
$50 billion for the UN, $100 Billion for …..???????
This ezine prints what they think if important, this isn\’t, so give them another chance, maybe they\’ll see the light, ice caps, no caps…whatever.
Check out Ms. Crow, one square of toilet paper, I hope she has a lot of laundry soap, cologne, underwear, whatever..
Be well all.
Pete
Sun\’s getting hotter. Mars is heating up too and it\’s polar ice caps are shrinking like ours.
Get a grip, people, don\’t be fooled.
Al Gore, who flunked out of two grad schools, produces movies and sells carbon credits exploiting his ideas and,on the other hand, lives like a king.
Hint: Star Trek was just a movie