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Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
This is something I think a lot of people aren't getting... Technically, you're not entitled to anything here. You have no more rights to speak here than I would have the right to drive my car around in your living room. This is a private forum, run by a private entity. Their rules apply, and frankly over-rule any "rights" you may think you have or are used to having in your day to day life or your country of origin. The fact that they're even asking us to help with the rule making process is a gift. One that I'm appreciative of.


I for one look forward to a slightly stricter handling of people being a**-hats, even if that means I may get a point or two at times (and/or suspended for a day on occasion). It will be a price worth paying to make this forum a usable place again, vs a stream of whiners coming to post their rant against Nokia or just to be pr**ks. It won't stop me from saying what I want to say, but them I'm willing to live by what I say, and pay the penalty when that goes against societal/forum norms.
The funny thing is, I thought that believers in free speech were secretly in favor of it even in private forums, too. I thought that most people living in democracies wanted freedom all over the place, not just where it was legally required. I thought that even on Lost people were always voting on which way to go because they shared a certain point of view, and they wanted to hear each other out.

So now I understand that some people think that freedom of speech is just a far-out point of view that you adhere to only when you think the police will be called in when you don't. That's very interesting, and a surprise.

It's also interesting to me that a citizen can write an Open Letter to Nokia and send it to virtually any newspaper in the country and have a decent chance of its being published.

Except that same citizen is forbidden by these rules from publishing that same letter here. At least that's how I interpret them.
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