Does A Word Filter Restrict Your Freedom Of Speech?

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Does a word filter restrict your speech?

  1. Yes

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  2. No

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    54.5%
  1. Sallyally

    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    I agree. Writing seems to defuse some of the passion which might not be filtered, with the immediacy of speech.
    I also find that swearing isn't necessary on forae because people can be equally offensive without using expletives.
     
  2. manchmal

    manchmal Well-Known Member

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    If its "free speech" then its free and uncensored, except for famous stuff like shouting FIRE in a theater. There should never be word filters. If people have such snowflake ears and cupcake minds they need to hide in a closet and leave the rest of us alone.
     
  3. Pollycy

    Pollycy Well-Known Member

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    Restrict? Of COURSE a word-filter restricts a person's freedom of expression, and speech. What other purpose does such a 'filter' have? Personally, I hate the damned things! Nobody needs a 'nanny' but morons and kindergarten children....
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Personally I believe that any business that purports itself as "available to everyone" and about "expression and ideas" (as all of the big 3 claim to be), absolutely nothing should be censored short of criminal acts.

    Don't want to see certain content? That's what the user operated filter system would be for.
     
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  5. Liberty Monkey

    Liberty Monkey Well-Known Member

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    **** badger
     
  6. TOG 6

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    Of course it does, presuming you have the right to say what the filter filters out.
     
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  7. Liberty Monkey

    Liberty Monkey Well-Known Member

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    It's rarely I swear on here instead on just write **** lol, possibly too many carry on films.
     
  8. Ronstar

    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    **** this

    **** that

    you can type whatever you want.

    forum doesn't have to publish it
     
  9. Day of the Candor

    Day of the Candor Well-Known Member

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    Word filters are for simple minded morons who fear the world.
     
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  10. Day of the Candor

    Day of the Candor Well-Known Member

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    delete repeat
     
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  11. perdidochas

    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    If it was a rule required by the government it would be. If it's the choice of the private owner of a web forum, it's not.
     
  12. perdidochas

    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    Exactly.
     
  13. perdidochas

    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    I'd much rather have the word censors than a board that bans for using the words. With the word censors I can still ****ing write the damned words. It just doesn't display all of the **** I type. I'm sure all of you *********kers understood exactly what I wrote.
     
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  14. perdidochas

    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    You're ****ing right about all of this ****.
     
  15. perdidochas

    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    I'm not a liberal, but I support the auto-censoring. As I've said before, it doesn't stop me from writing the words, you just can't see them all. If you can at all read between the ****ing lines, you know exactly what kind of **** I'm writing.
     
  16. Pollycy

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    Being frightened of mere words is like being frightened of the dark -- utterly CHILDISH!
     

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