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Originally Posted by Gettin' In Tune  Under the First Amendment you are limiting my right to speech. You are creating your own constitution, which is fine: ours has it limitation, but I hold dear to the First Amendment. |
The first amendment states that the GOVERNMENT will not limit freedom of speech or press and will not establish an official religion. It says absolutely nothing about forum administrators on agnosticforums.com or any other private citizen, for that matter. Agnosticforums.com is not an arm of the US government and is not funded by them.
We are limiting NO first amendment rights. In fact, we wholeheartedly support your first amendment rights. By making the claims you're making about how we are limiting your freedoms and that we should not, you are advocating a limitation of the free expression of the people who administer this forum.
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How can you support freedom of (non) religion and not the freedom of speach?
Again, I hope this turns into a civil conversation. I never ask for a "pulpit to shout profanity from", but I have the right to use profanity. Obviously what profanity is to is not to me.
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NO ONE is limiting your right to use profanity. You still have that right! Go on and use it (elsewhere obviously, like in your own home)! Doesn't mean there won't be social consequences to your behavior.
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Since you have the right to censor my words, you have a right to censor music and literature. My profanity when used in moderation and within the right context is much less offensive then some of the biblical passages.
Again, as I hypothesized, If I become a ****ing rude bastard, I will be ignored and marginalized out of this forum. Isn't that how morals and ethical systems are created?
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This part about music and literature is silly. It makes no sense. We are not censoring ideas. We are creating a specific TONE in this environment. If you want a wild jungle of who shouts the loudest (i.e. your proposal of community defined language) then you're looking in the wrong place
