Pardon me ladies & gentlemen, censorship is something implemented by the government. The government does not run this website, it is operated by a nongovernmental entity and administered by the Mods & Admin. As a private entity, the Admin & Mods decided what is or is not on the site. It's not censorship, its a business decision. We do not have a right to free speech on this site. We have a privilege to post whatever the site owner allows. Free speech and censorship exist in the public sector. Privilege exists in the private sector and ECCIE is in the private sector.
Ladies, gentlemen, good evening. Originally Posted by DocHolyday
Correct, except that I'm pretty sure the owners of the board actually embrace free speech and discourage things from being deleted unless they fall under the nuclear topics. Even when a review is found to be completely fake (proven), the instruction is to annotate on it, remove it from the provider's list of reviews, but not delete it from the board.
Can you imagine if mods were to actually delete all posts from mandles, bandles, and trolls? 75% of Houston would be deleted lol. All jokes aside, it's a fine line on who is a troll and who is calling things out on the board who others won't. It is more common to see that in Houston than here, but mods are not here to be the moral police (and especially not on a SHMB!!)
