Does The Mudcat Cafe or our discussion forum set aside on it - stand for censorship? Has it anything at all to do with being pro-censorship?

No of course it does not.

So why have we reached a stage on our forum where it appears that asking for all posters to be treated equally and for them to be openly be allowed to decide for themselves what to read, respond to or ignore is bad?

Or where being seen to be anti-censorship and to make a stand against censorship is running an anti-censorship campaign and this is a bad thing? Who then is running a censorship is good campaign?

For in some posters eyes - (and encouraged by this current siege mentalty on the part of our 'moderators') - to post anti-censorship views is now seen to be exactly the same thing as posting anti-Mudcat views. If you are seen to post an anti-censorship view - some loyal mudcat member will feel they are showing this loyalty by telling you to go away and form another forum -if you don't like censorship? ....Who does like censorship?

With this new step-up in censorship announced in this thread - any thread started on the subject of censorship - will now be seen by the Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team as a "complaint thread' and be limited, rationed and automatically closed..........

Perhaps the few posters who now seem obsessed with thinking that censorship, restrictions, divisions and finding ways to prevent posters from saying what they wish and preventing other from reading it - is what our discussion forum is now about - can go away and leave the rest of us - (I suggest it is the the majority of us) in peace and to discuss what we wish?

In the meantime - can they please ensure that ALL imposed censorship actions are openly indicated and explained - to enable our forum to know the true nature and extent of censorship - so we all then have the evidence to decide if all this is really proportionate?

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You're Free, Roger!!!!

Post all you want, say anything you want - just keep it in one thread, just like most people do.
Don't be paranoid. You don't get deleted, Roger - you just get consolidated.

Oh, and if you post a blank message, expect it to be deleted. Contrary to Bert's opinion, Joe and the clones think that blank messages were posted either by mistake, or for obnoxious reasons. If you wish to say "no comment," say "no comment."
-Joe Offer-