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Theoryman

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Petercat responded: “Internet censorship is a butcher’s knife, not a scalpel.”

This isn’t a new phenomenon. About a decade ago, there was a search engine that refused to search for “breast,” meaning that women could not easily learn about breast cancer. Of course, the breast ban was started for a different reason.

Obviously the mean of words change over time, but authoritarian tendencies last forever ..

David,

Adding an asterisk or two to an obscenity doesn’t cut it. I’ve deleted as such from your comment. You know the rules. This is a warning.

Baen Books is not exclusively a publisher of “conservative, libertarian, and military leaning sci-fi” (I understand that you didn’t say that, I just wish to make it clear). Note that they also publish books by flaming socialist twits like Eric Flint, and that Jim Baen (prior to his death) and Flint were diametrically opposite in philosophical views, and yet could still get along. If you go to Flint’s web site and read his take on it (https://ericflint.net/information/controversy-about-baens-bar/) you’ll find that he’s far from the only non-conservative/libertarian author they have promoted over the years.

The problem here is the unrelenting attitude towards censorship that the collectivists have towards anyone or anything that doesn’t toe the (current) party line/narrative. Remember Heinlein’s words:

“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet’s censors, and the impact on my mind was devastating. Sometimes I would glance over my shoulder to see who was watching me, frightened in spite of myself. I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy…censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to it’s subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked, contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”

To me the words you described as ‘name calling’ are merely objective descriptions. I think that the blog rule means words like [deleted] and so forth. So no good calling someone a [deleted] unless that is an objective fact.

Attacking grammar is another way of saying, the author in question is dumb and should not be listened too. I believe your better than that Andrew

The Billion dollar question.

Also, after seeing how the capital riots were exploited. I now believe that this was a false flag operation to destroy and weaken the left’s opposition and to weaken Trump. My emphasis above is on the word “Billion”.