Forked: "The challenges facing ethical tech companies" off topic discussion
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@BlackDaug It was removed as off-topic, not "censored." User is welcome to rant in the Lounge.
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@JohnConnorBear The blog is not the lounge in the forum and does not belong to it.
The topic here is ethical tech companies, and not the merits of political and economic systems, which is what the user was on about. It had nothing to do with tech companies, really, but was decrying "the left" and going on about political personages - using coded language against them.
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@JohnConnorBear Discussing political systems and political personages is not discussing ethical companies. That is not an opinion. It's fact.
US political campaigns and historic elected officials for instance, has nothing to do with browser privacy and browser income models. Bill Clinton. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Gov. Cuomo, "Husein" Obama, Ted Kennnedy and Chappaqiddick have nothing to do with the topic, nor do "misogyny, racism , bigotry, ageis(m)." You did not see the comment, I did, it violated community policy. I personally notified the poster where they could start a topic concerning their area of interest, and removed the comment from here. End of story.
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@JohnConnorBear It is the job of moderators to police the forum.
No one decided you should not read this or that content. I decided it did not belong in this thread, and deleted it. I informed the commenter where to post it. Given your political leanings, so broadly and copiously spread within the Forum, I am quite sure you would have received an endorphin rush from reading the comment, but it simply did not belong in this thread.
As it turns out, the commenter joined two days prior to posting the comment, this is the only comment they have ever posted, and despite my invitation to post it elsewhere, which I know for sure they read, they have never posted again. I have not censored or banned them, and they have the opportunity to post what they want to, and you get to read it, so long as it is not demafmatory and does not incite to violence. They just aren't allowed to post about "new, exciting children's toys" or any other off-topic subject, in this thread.
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@JohnConnorBear said in The challenges facing ethical tech companies:
The "offtopic" thing makes no sense because when I meet some comment I don't care, I am not forced to read it, I just move along. So why removing the comment, why "policing" the forum?
Every time someone posts an off-topic comment it makes it harder to follow and engage in any meaningful dialog. Time and time again you interrupt threads with your own agenda.
I do not have to read your comments, nor do I have to respond to them, but even if I move on your post still diverts attention from the thread's topic, and someone else is likely to jump in; which is why I reported the offending post in the first place.
Every forum worth visiting has some rules. The volunteer mods have the unenviable task of making sure that the rules are followed at least in the spirit.
Don’t disrupt discussions with irrelevant, off-topic remarks, bully or intimidate others.
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@JohnConnorBear said in The challenges facing ethical tech companies:
It is not a war that it is worth it to fight. Nor the place to fight it.
Exactly.
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@BlackDaug In the same way that pulling over cars driving against the flow of traffic is "oppressing the right to travel freely."
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I moved all off topic comments to a separate thread.
Please follow Vivaldi Forum's Code of Conduct.
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@jane-n Thanks for that. I should have done it last week.
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