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On-line forums censoring too much?
At Astromart there is a lot of talk about Cloudynights on line forum being nasty with those who voice opinions about products the moderators do not like. I received at MySpace this message, >Hi Emil,
Thank you for speaking to me about the threat that I had received from the on-line forum regarding a report to our ISP.
Background: About two years ago by accident I had exposed a misrepresentation about an old friends telescope that I had used many years ago. The current owner the same telescope gave me a lot of crank calls/letters, but they more politically connected at the forum an soon after I was banned. Recently I got back on to the forum but when it was discovered who I was, the ban was re-issued along with the threat to notify our ISP.
Through a voice mail I have complained to the owner of the telescope store that runs the forum in addition to several emails/letters to editors of the two major astronomy publications where this on-line forum advertises, plus I the two main leading manufactures of telescopes. This is a very effective way since the astronomy community is very small and word travels fast, plus I'm known in the telescope sales community.
Another issue was that this same on-line forum has been allowing one of the local members here in the Los Angeles area to unlawfully use another form's name to advertise their used telescope sales business. In my emails and phone calls I brought this issue up too. Since my emails and calls the link to that business on the forums home page has been removed. So already I have had an effect. I will not tolerate to be bullied by hypocrites.
Andrew< I responded by telling them about other forums including this one.
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