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Originally Posted by stargate101
You make me laugh, on one hand you talk about this great community and then slap someone in the face on the other i call that a double standard.
Topic was to help the community last time i checked,
Which is what i initially discussed , all i see isl a clicky little group of people protecting their wallets and god help anyone that h a point that differs from yours right?
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Like you, I am a non-fee paying guest on Ice In Space, enjoying the free use of servers and software, as well as the free “thinking” time and free management time of some generous folks. Not to mention the company of a bunch of like minded astro folks.
During my membership of this community, I have seen several posts about the perceived “freedom of speech” on Ice In Space and as none of them involved me, I have never been personally affected or upset. I can well understand that if it is your own post, it would be quite easy to feel upset.
However, looking at this from a more detached perspective, I really think that if you want a guarantee that what you write will be published and remain published, you will probably need to set up your own website with software, a web server and goodness knows what else it takes to operate and manage such a site. You would probably also need to protect yourself (and your assets?) from any behaviour that you deem unsavoury, contentious, irresponsible, legally dodgy, etc. Then, and this is a big one, you will probably require an audience who might be interested in what you write.
Don’t take it personally; at work there are policies and procedures to protect the organisation and its owners. Then there are traffic laws and rules, council by laws, etc. so it’s not surprising to find guidelines that condition what is deemed appropriate to post on Ice In Space. It could be very, very expensive and personally quite harrowing for the owners and operators if “something goes wrong” and they are deemed liable as a result of what someone else writes!
Cheers
Dennis
