As direct moderator censorship seems to provoke a lot of bad feeling, I would encourage everyone to downvote this to oblivion, or for the original poster to voluntarily delete it, for reasons given in highly upvoted comments below. Or search on “UTTERLY FUCKING STUPID”, without quotes.
As someone who was not at all happy about the one previous act of censorship I know about, I would consider this to be a very different case, in that I can imagine legal liability for the comments here.
As moderator-directed censorship seems to provoke a lot of bad feeling, I would encourage everyone to downvote this to oblivion, or for the original poster to voluntarily delete it, for reasons given in highly upvoted comments below. Or search on “UTTERLY FUCKING STUPID”, without quotes.
Wise move. At least with respect to restraint with clear assertion. The reference to uncalled for profanity was a little silly—a simple link or verbal reference to CarlShulman’s rather brilliant explanation of how to actually think about these issues responsibly would sent a far better message.
As direct moderator censorship seems to provoke a lot of bad feeling, I would encourage everyone to downvote this to oblivion, or for the original poster to voluntarily delete it, for reasons given in highly upvoted comments below. Or search on “UTTERLY FUCKING STUPID”, without quotes.
As someone who was not at all happy about the one previous act of censorship I know about, I would consider this to be a very different case, in that I can imagine legal liability for the comments here.
Wise move. At least with respect to restraint with clear assertion. The reference to uncalled for profanity was a little silly—a simple link or verbal reference to CarlShulman’s rather brilliant explanation of how to actually think about these issues responsibly would sent a far better message.