Posted by Lou Pilder on February 21, 2003, at 12:30:29
In reply to Re: Lou's response to Dinah's post, posted by Dinah on February 21, 2003, at 10:21:39
Dinah,
You wrote,[...I have a problem with people trying to shut this place down because they don't like it here...]
It is my understanding that there could be people that [don't like it here] for [various] reasons, one being their disagreement with the operation of the site in reference to decisions made by Dr. Bob in refeerence to [discipline], and another reason could be that some could feel that the site {fosters} anti-Semitism. I base this obsevation on several recent posts here that speak to some's questioning the way that some posts that use ant-Semitic language have been handled by Dr. Bob.
Now their are some people that believe and feel that sites that foster racism, [should] be shut down. I have communicated with the Islamic Society in Washington DC about sites that advocate genocide to Islamic people. They told me that they have been successsfull in shutting down those type of sites. Now there are some people that would want those type of sites shut down and some that would just do nothing, or some that would write a letter and some that would do other things.
I was successfulll at getting a web site to change their policy about racism. They wrote me and said that they agreed with me and would not allow anti-Semitic language to be posted on their site and said to me, "We agree with you, Mr. Pilder, for we do not want our site to become {a haven for anti-Semites."}. I was not trying to shut that site down, but to give them due-process to change their moderation of their site.
In the post that you wrote,[...I have a problem with people trying to shut this place down because they don't like it here...],could you clarify if you are saying that you have a problem with those that want to shut down this site who are of the class of posters [that feel that this site fosters ant-Semitism], or if you have a problem with those posters that do not like [decisions on discipline] or you have a problem with both? If you could , then I could have a better understanding of what you wrote and be better able to reply to your post.
Lou
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