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Well, excuse me…

May 22, 2004


… for not allowing illegal content on my communities.

I had a guy who started a thread with a link to a site and the subject matter of that site is an illegal substance (in some areas, including the one I am in). Against our guidelines, post removed, polite notification site.

The guy didn’t really like that and gave me the usual censorship and childish idiocy. He also threw it a “fear”, which I was kind of puzzled by.

Nonetheless, it is the responsibility and every community to decide what they will allow and a guideline prohibiting illegal discussions or links to illegal content is perfectly reasonable and understandable.

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2 Responses to “Well, excuse me…”

  1. May 23rd, 2004 at 9:45 am me12 says:

    I agree with your decision to not allow that type of content at your sites. You can disallow anything you like, but it’s certianly not illegal to discuss marijuana.

  2. May 23rd, 2004 at 11:36 am Patrick () says:

    Assuming that is the substance (I was speaking more generally than specifically) the site is discussing… well, maybe.

    But, the substance itself is illegal. So, they are discussing an illegal substance. They are discussing something that is illegal in a positive light.

    It would be inappropriate for me to allow links to sites of that nature.

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