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Subject:	Re: Thoughts on Community & Censorship (Was: Re: Brickshelf censorship policy rules.....)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 5 Sep 2002 02:04:38 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John P. Henderson writes: [snip] > Regarding the recent debates about censorship, content, etc., I think there > are greater, more fundamental issues that must first be discussed. For one, > we must decide how we as a *community* want to be. I disagree strongly here. It is what it is. The is no collective decision making about how we 'want to be' - it will be what individuals make it. > Perhaps sites like > Lugnet, Brickshelf, rtl, etc. are privately operated, perhaps the various > LUGs have charters and rules, but the community that uses them is a separate > entity that is essentially self-created. The community may be a seperate entity, but that is largely irrelevent. LUGNET and Brickshelf are privately owned and the owners set down the rules. They may listen to input, but in the end it's their money/time/future. (The community may always move on to somewhere else... after all, it made the step from rtl to LUGNET some time ago). [big snip] > Teach them the difference between playfully sneaking > around the woods versus actually watching your friends getting killed. If > you just say "don’t touch guns" guess what might happen when they reach the > rebellious or curious stages of their lives? Bang. Bang. A nice thought.... but I don't recall any incident of someone without a gun using backround/parent reaching a 'rebellious or curious' stage in their life and suddenly somehow getting hold of a firearm and going on a shooting rampage. I could be wrong, though... do you have a specific example? Cheers Richie Dulin

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		Guns! (was: Thoughts on Community & Censorship (Was: Re: Brickshelf censorship policy rules.....))
(...) Well, I never went on a shooting spree, but as a teen I did behave irresponsibly with guns (by the standards that most people express). And they weren't the .22 rifle that my dad had in his closet. They were used and probably stolen guns that (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Thoughts on Community & Censorship (Was: Re: Brickshelf censorship policy rules.....)
(...) "Want it to be" or "Make it be", I think this may be semantics. Either way, my point is that this is an established (yet evolving) community that currently accepts among its members both people who may dislike certain content and those who may (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Thoughts on Community & Censorship (Was: Re: Brickshelf censorship policy rules.....)
I’ll be moving this to .off-topic simply because I don’t want to bog down the other groups. Although, I think this may be a relevant topic for any AFOL who visits Lugnet and sites like it. I’m not trying to beat any dead horses (as I recognized the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)

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