Should freedom of speech in SL forums be free only if the majority agrees?

Simple poll.

Might as well be

"yes, I do enjoy love kittens to death"

"no, I am a hate-filled babybeater"



LF

lol..you so need better choices. So our choices are, "It's only great for some people" or "It's great as long as it's not really free speech"??

Personally I vote for:

3. No censorship whatsoever unless RL info is being divulged.

Second that motion!

Careful not to confuse free speech with irreverence for fellow players.

The former should be encouraged, and we should know better about the latter.

Mrs. J - Second
I third your motion David...err I guess I'm actually voting for it.

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What a bullshit, biased poll. And what a shock

This is not biased at all.

My point is, just because there a bunch of people in these forums who disagree with what I'm trying to say, does that mean my ability to say it should be curtailed?

I believe that Aimee is trying to support that thesis precisely, which is why I posted this poll.

Actually, I vote 'yes' here. This is a forum paid for and operated by those who are offering an outlet for productive and community-oriented exchange. They are perfectly within their rights to ban anyone who consistantly demonstrates themselves unable to contribute in a positive manner to those ends. Indeed, they are best served by doing so.

Count me as a 'yes', despite the obvious 'push poll' mentality which created the question.

edit: Love how he is changing the wording after you have already voted. So much for ethics.

There ya go, nicely proving my point.

There is a mentality here that unless you toe the party line, your voice should be squelched.

So .. biased, Cristiano? Think again.

Don't be more of an idiot than you must, Blaze. The people who post here do not decide what the 'party line' is, Linden Labs does.... and yes, if you don't like it, tough cookies, quit.

Them's the rules. Deal with it.

I agree with Cienna. No one has a "right" to post here, so trying to paint it as a free speech issue is unrealistic and biased. Forum participation is a priviledge and not a constitutionally protected "freedom." Gardeners who weed their flower beds aren't trampling the rights of weeds.

I believe you are making things about things I never said. You are trying to scare people by creating conjecture about a doom-and-gloom future. If you cannot argue with anything I have said, then you pretend I said something else and you argue with THAT. This is called a straw man fallacy and SL users will not fall for it.

You voted yes that if the majority disagrees then the speech of the minority should be curtailed.

It didn't say anything about "lindenlabs".

Perhaps you should be a bit more cautious about throwing the term 'idiot' around like that.

Hey, Aimee, please correct me if I am wrong. I could be.

However, you

a) put up a poll to find out what the majority thought about the forums
b) implied that if they did think there was a problem we should try to 'solve' it

Other than curtailing my free speech, what other possible solutions might there be? Everyone already has ignore capability.

Perhaps I'm rushing to a judgement and you had something else in mind.. I'd definitely be interested to hear what that might be.

It is very much biased, Blaze. The fact that you think it isn't is a joke. Here would be a non-biased poll:

Should unpopular speech be silenced?

Yes
No

The way you have written it, you talk about freedom of speech out of one side of your mouth, but because you dislike personal attacks, you want those squelched. That is not freedom of speech - thus your answers are biased. In order to answer no to the question of should unpopular thought be silenced, you had to agree to personal attacks should be. Thus, your poll is biased. No way around that one Blaze.

Hey, woah, that's a much better poll than mine.

I'm going to repost

I can think of six off the top of my head. None of which involve curtailing free speech. And I will post them when I am satisfied that my poll has collected enough data.

You think you're much smarter than you actually are, blaze. This is the thing that stymies your attempts at being clever or coy every, single time.

As for the application of the term 'idiot' -- when the shoe fits, I throw it. In my opinion, you, sir, are definitely one.

From the forum guidlines:"please note language, such as "fraud, liar, cheater, griefer, troller, jerk, scam artist" etc is strongly discouraged, but will not be removed."

It's a shame your skin isn't as thick as you think that of those you denigrate on a daily basis should be.

P.S., there is no such thing as free speech on a privately held forum or in a privately held game. This is not a street corner in the Village.

I'm actually kinda dumb

.. but that doesn't give you the right!

Blaze,

You play the role beautifully, but you are certainly not dumb. You just use that as an affectation after whatever button pushing you have done blows up in your face. When you are not just trying to be contrary, you have shown incredible intelligence in certain threads. Unfortunately, the more you align yourself with parroting Prokofy (even while Prokofy insults you too), the more you paint yourself with the same broad brush. Well played though, especially the indignance. Bravo!

Actually ... its more valuable for certain members of this forum communtiy to read that other poll, and possibly consider how their rants and rhetoric about how the sky is falling are infringing on OTHER member's of the forum communities rights to have a reasonably free exchange of ideas and information.

I'm curious... Were you born a moron, or did your mother drop you on your head as a baby?

Those choices are as apropos as the choices that are offered by your poll.

- Ace

Ace,

the poll is not biased at all.

It seems biased because the choice should be clearly obvious.

And yet the community has spoken - they are clearly upset by the volume and nature of the opinions that Prok and I hold.

So they are attempting by whatever manner they can to either shun us or to show their collective displeasure into getting us to shut up. Because they are the majority and we are the minority.

All I can say, is they won. I have no desire to lose my SL privileges or risk accounts that I have which are in good standing with the community. I will squelch any further attempts to disrupt the atmospher of agreement here.

So, the fact is, whether or not you voted yes or no.. the fact is the minority voice (me) is silencing itself because of clear threats from the majority voice.

So no. The poll is not biased in anyway.