SpamSandwich, I'm a business owner myself so I don't need to be schooled on the difference between the private vs. government sector. I believe that a private business can do whatever it likes as long as it isn't in opposition with any laws or rights. If I'm wrong then please explain to me why private businesses have been successfully sued for infringing on customer's rights? Am i'm trying to sue AI? No! Am I expressing my strong distaste for an effort to silence me over a comment that I made jokingly about Blackberry's inability to make good phones and Obama's inability to run the country? Yes! So you can chill out with the whole "calm down" spiel because I am calm, and even more so i'm very levelheaded. I just think that anybody with half a brain would've look at that comment and moved on, let alone delete it.
In fact, I agree with you on both points (Blackberry and Obama), but your insistence that a web site cannot "censor" you (or presumably anyone else) for any reason is simply incorrect.
I agree with you that they can sensor me if they want, it's their website and they can do that. I just think that it's stupid especially since my comment wasn't directed at anybody in the forum nor was it threatening in any nature. I personally believe in light moderation in consideration of the spammers whose only agenda is to spam, and some people that deliberately come on here and personally insult people. But my comment did neither, and in addition it was consistent with the topic at hand.
I just believe that if you're going to have a comments section you have to expect that people are going to come on and say things that somebody else might not like or agree with. But that doesn't mean what the person said was offensive or meant to be offensive. We can't only have people that agree with us in life....grown-ups should be able to handle that type of thing without telling someone else that they need to change.
I agree with you that they can sensor me if they want, it's their website and they can do that. I just think that it's stupid especially since my comment wasn't directed at anybody in the forum nor was it threatening in any nature. I personally believe in light moderation in consideration of the spammers whose only agenda is to spam, and some people that deliberately come on here and personally insult people. But my comment did neither, and in addition it was consistent with the topic at hand.
I just believe that if you're going to have a comments section you have to expect that people are going to come on and say things that somebody else might not like or agree with. But that doesn't mean what the person said was offensive or meant to be offensive. We can't only have people that agree with us in life....grown-ups should be able to handle that type of thing without telling someone else that they need to change.
I'm just going to take a wild guess here. You may have been penalized for introducing politics into a politically neutral thread?
There is a forum called "Political Outsider" here where you can really let loose (within limits, of course). Just FYI.
To be honest bud I don't really think the comment was all that serious to go to another forum to post it, I wasn't dying to tell the world of AI my sentiment towards Obama lol. It was more of a shot at Blackberry than it was political. I have other sites I go to when I really want to talk politics, I come to tech sites to catch up on tech news. Thanks for the info though, I appreciate it.
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In fact, I agree with you on both points (Blackberry and Obama), but your insistence that a web site cannot "censor" you (or presumably anyone else) for any reason is simply incorrect.
I agree with you that they can sensor me if they want, it's their website and they can do that. I just think that it's stupid especially since my comment wasn't directed at anybody in the forum nor was it threatening in any nature. I personally believe in light moderation in consideration of the spammers whose only agenda is to spam, and some people that deliberately come on here and personally insult people. But my comment did neither, and in addition it was consistent with the topic at hand.
I just believe that if you're going to have a comments section you have to expect that people are going to come on and say things that somebody else might not like or agree with. But that doesn't mean what the person said was offensive or meant to be offensive. We can't only have people that agree with us in life....grown-ups should be able to handle that type of thing without telling someone else that they need to change.
I'm just going to take a wild guess here. You may have been penalized for introducing politics into a politically neutral thread?
There is a forum called "Political Outsider" here where you can really let loose (within limits, of course). Just FYI.
To be honest bud I don't really think the comment was all that serious to go to another forum to post it, I wasn't dying to tell the world of AI my sentiment towards Obama lol. It was more of a shot at Blackberry than it was political. I have other sites I go to when I really want to talk politics, I come to tech sites to catch up on tech news. Thanks for the info though, I appreciate it.
I don't think I'd write Blackberry off quite yet as they wouldn't be the first tech to rise from the dead. As Dilger says on occasion, "This has all happened before". 15 years ago it was Apple's obituary that was being prepped.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Apple-layoffs-Painful-but-necessary-3130407.php