I'd also like to add that the intimation that we are limiting the freedom of expression of an individual is an INSULT to these forums. It demonstrates an ignorance of the rights which you claim to want to avail yourself of and it insults the forum we are trying to provide (that wouldn't otherwise exist) where ideas can be openly discussed.
It's a perverted notion that we somehow want to limit discussion when the central notion of this forum is one of exploration and discovery.
Would you say we had the right to moderate pornographic posts/adds and random advertisements (unsolicited spam)? Would you say we'd have the right to move posts unrelated to agnosticism to the off topic forum or delete them outright?
I'd imagine that you don't have problems with us deleting spam and banning spam bots. You don't have a problem with us organizing off topic chat into another area when it's not related to a subforum topic.
ALL of these are censorships. But that's the point of a topical forum community! You create a topic subset and a tone. Otherwise it's just a random noise forum and not a community at all. This community exists in order to discuss ideas relating to agnosticism, science, and religion. That's a censorship right there. But what we have is a community that exists BECAUSE of that censorship. It exists because we've limited the topics.
You propose that we allow for all speech to be allowed and then to let some sort of hands off capitalist approach direct the content of the forum. That is what the INTERNET allows.
The notion that we are limiting any freedoms or human rights is ridiculous. In fact, we are the result of freedom of speech... and part of it.
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