The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93088   Message #1788431
Posted By: The Shambles
20-Jul-06 - 02:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
Subject: RE: BS: Deleted posts & closed threads
Deleting a post for whatever reason is an editing act and does not require a criminal investigation.

If there is nothing to hide - then why act as if there is and give any cause for anyone to suspect there something to hide? If this recently stepped-up censorship continues and no record is kept - when a poster can't find their post - the automatic assumption will be that it has been censored.

If no record is made of when and where censorship has taken place - no poster has any protection from selective, unfair and personally motivated actions. And no censor has any protection from accusations that their imposed judgement was selective, unfair and personally motivated.

The simple act of ensuring that ALL imposed editing actions are recorded - will solve this...........It may also result in less censorship and more mutual trust, which is a good thing - is it not?

Does anyone (other than our censors and their supporters really see any proportionate need for this stepped-up censorship at this point? I suspect that most of us were under the impression that things had improved - until this increased level of unrecorded censorship was imposed on us.