I'll turn this around to put the on-topic stuff first.
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Originally posted by Glitter650
I mean if you think about it, GC is a place where, most likely only the people who really CARE about their org., and greek life in general are going to take time to post. So it stands to reason that everyone here takes their orgs. values and the vows they made to the org. seriously and isn't going to act stupid.
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This is generally true around here. I guess that this particular case came up because someone in the Kappa organizational hierarchy (RDC? PDC? someone in there) did in fact see a Kappa post that she didn't like and that she thought represented the organization poorly. It was probably a knee-jerk reaction to an out-of-the-ordinary post, and the sort of thing that KDonline would at most simply have dealt with by a quick, "hey, you probably shouldn't do that" email.
That proves the point. People are going to make mistakes, they're going to have judgment errors. It's a lot better to have a way to limit and address those judgment errors than it is to entirely isolate the group from the forum.
A lot of people are saying that common sense is all that's needed. I'm not sure that's the best way of looking at it. What I like to think is that though people
will sometimes make mistakes, we can learn and teach each other how not to make those mistakes. We can catch them quickly and deal with them in a way that leads to the growth of the individual rather than closing everyone off and preventing social growth.
I'd go into examples so as to make what I'm saying look less like I'm just picking pretty words out of the air, but I've got a meeting to go to. I've already written what's below, so I'll leave it in...
It's a little off topic, though!
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Originally posted by Glitter650
Eupolis,
You are right... there is NO freedom of speech in a private organization. The only people who can't limit our freedom of speech is the government. That is why songs are "bleeped" on the radio... because the RADIO station decides what to bleep. As long as the regulation on speech doesn't come from the government in anyway... it is completely legal.
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The choice isn't so much theirs... The government requires radio to censor certain content at certain times of day. The First Amendment's free speech provisions aren't absolute, even against the government. There are lots of exceptions, and one of them is that the government can limit certain kinds of content in broadcast communication. A big case about this particular one is
F.C.C v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978), and you can find a PDF of it at
http://1stam.umn.edu/archive/classic...h/438us726.pdf -- it censored a daytime broadcast of a version of George Carlin's "Seven Words" routine. Transcript at
http://1stam.umn.edu/archive/primary/pacifica.pdf.