jugoth opened this issue on Dec 13, 2006 · 95 posts
Ironbear posted Wed, 27 December 2006 at 8:54 AM
Quote - *for ironbear...lots of sense in the post
"Why* is "glorification" a criteria for banning expression, whereas "condemning" is a criteria for "allowing" it?"
this is the one where i'd go even further and ask "does a painting with nazis and kill all jews glorify the holocaust or denigrate the nazis.
To me it says a great deal about the poster, one way or the other, just as a "liberal" proudly wearing a Che t-shirt displays a great deal about their iliberalism. One reason I'm not being too judgemental on the policy aspects is that every private site like this has some degree of censure built into their policies, either imposed by law, or determined by choice. Renderotica disallows beastiality from legalities. Rotica disallows child imagery from choice. Some forms of violent erotica are disallowed there by practicality: our CC proccessors have policies against it. Both Daz and Animotions disallow nudity. [Animotions allows it in the store to a limited extent, only on admin judgement call, but not in the galleries and forums] Both for similar reasons. All of the various sites censure child porn. RFI, which is widely considered a wide-open libertarian site, will censure some postings that might cause elgeneralissimo legal problems with his hosting. Practicality again. I'll censure something that crosses too far over the line into seditious or insurrectionist rhetoric just as I refrain from it: it has potentially lethal consequences. What constitutes "too far" is a judgement call. Private property. The property owner(s) makes the Rules, because they're paying for it. Deal with it or go elsewhere, or get your own property and make your own rules. I don't have any objections to debating wether the rules make sense; I don't deny the right of the site owner(s) to make them.
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