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Originally posted by Dionysus
This is not an issue of freedom of speech. It's about who says what.
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Here's the old DeltAlum broken record again...sorry.
In most cases I don't see a free speech issue as much as one of maturity.
First, I'm only aware of a very few people who have been "banished" in the time I've read GC. (Tau, the V's being the ones that come immediately to mind) I don't read every forum, so there may well be more.
But really, the reason that the members I'm aware of were thrown off had more to do with presentation than anything else. They used language for shock value. They resorted to name calling. They made outrageous comments and/or claims. They used threats. They tried to intimidate. They lied. They were purposfully rude. They were knowingly offensive to groups and specific individuals.
They were way beyond tasteless.
They acted like children.
Some almost certainly broke the law, as it was so well explained above by Eupolis. Thank you for that, by the way.
Most of them were warned, and chose to continue their transgressions.
I don't mind a good disagreement (providing there is some logic used in the argument), and I don't generally care what anyone believes (OK, we all have some hot buttons), but I take serious exception when someone plays stupid, childish games. Or, worse yet, is vindictive and/or predatory.