Last updated August 21, 2002

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Who decides what is offensive or not???
If comments make you uncomfortable are they necessarily offensive? Just a question who decides which posts are censored or not besides the monitiors?

u know the old saying.. people who live in glass houses shouldn't...start threads that they can't handle.

I remember there was a time when you could have a well rounded discussion on certain sensitive subjects in here.

But since the political "brain fart" boners that Prince has released this past year.. alot of those orgers aren't around anymore.

It can be argued all day long that there is way too much censorship on the org these day.

But i'll sum it up with the most ironic point.

Theres RACISM

and then there is

PRINCE BRAND OF RACISM

If the man on stage is being sexualy lewd.. why can't people in the org be sexualy lewd?

If the man on stage is lighting a racist fire.. then what the f*&K ?

u know the old saying.. people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks or start threads that they can't handle.

Savannah said:

Sorry but... too bad This site is moderated, and it is censored, and we believe our site is better for it. One glance at the content of the GD forum and the P&R shows that we're actually pretty flexible in this regard... however there are certain types of content that Ben and the rest of the Org staff definitely do not want to permit on this site - and if you look at the site rules, this includes hate-related stuff such as bigotry, racism etc.

There are many uncensored and unmoderated discussion forums on the internet, and it is not our intention for Prince.org become yet another one of them. Prince.org is slightly different, and you either like it or you don't. If you don't, I politely suggest going to AMP or some unmoderated forum.

ian said:

The post was not to complain, yet to guide you in looking twice at what the name of the website is... Prince.org. The more racist he becomes (if he continues this path) you may want to think twice about continuing with this "unbalanced act" in the P&R forum, or like I suggested once, but you overzealously removed separate the two forums.

Ben manages the censorship of a couple hundred orgers.. and he does a good job.

We've been guiding the delicate management of internet free speech for 100 million+ for the past 7 years at AOL-TW for the past 6-7 years..

keep up the good work