First thing is first. I'm being threatened with a ban for TROLLING AND INCITING, lol. Don't make me laugh. How can I troll when I'm the one that created this thread. I can name two members that have trolled this thread with reckless intent to start an argument. That is the definition to online trolling. If I had looked up every thread where someone said something that I didn't like and posted a reply to it that upset several people, which I haven't, I chose to create my own thread. Then you could say I was trolling. As far as inciting... What did I incite? The fact that everyone has their own mind to speak up whenever they feel they're done wrong without penalty? I'm not the one attacking other members for no reason at all. The backlash that I have gotten is undeserved and quite disturbing knowing that so many people lack class by third grade name calling (the "my dad can beat up your dad" syndrome), and let me speak my piece without being called an idiot for it. There's a few people that I've probably upset, but they chose to not say anything, because they're classy people and don't believe in making something out of nothing.
Another thing, I never said that this was a NEW law, if I did then I apologize. It's more of a modification expanding into the internet world. There is an ACT, but I'll have to look up the complaint that I got from one of my forums when in fact I was breaking laws by telling people what they could or could not say. For one thing, you don't look on wikipedia to find anything. Because you can edit wiki yourself anytime you want to. Here you go...
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There's part of my terms on one of my forums. There's more in it as well. Would you like that to be posted as well? If there wasn't a law pertaining to online actions then so many people wouldn't be getting in trouble, my forum wouldn't have almost gotten shut down, and I wouldn't have gone through the trouble to even bring all this b.s. up. It is the law that gives us free speech and nobody has the right to threaten a ban because they don't like what someone says. FC TOS states, you can't say anything about an advertiser unless they say it out of anger. That one still draws a question mark in my mind. So, I say if you ban me for "TROLLING AND INCITING" you have to ban the couple of others that have posted their negative opinions for the same thing.
To whoever it was who stated that I posted this for attention. If anyone was out for attention, it was you my friend. You could've ignored it and let it go, but instead you chose to reply time and time again about something that you had no business to reply to (trolling) whenever I never addressed you or anybody for that matter other than the moderators and administration, which all they had to do was send me a personal message and ask what I was talking about. Instead they kept it going knowing it would draw the remarks that it did (inciting).
Also, I have seven family members who are preachers, four who are salespeople, two that are school teachers, and a partridge in a pear tree. What does that make me? Me. A self employed internet broker. Nothing more. And yes, I fell for one of these work at home sites that promise to make you money for a small fee. Guess what? I'm not making the $12,000 a month as they stated, but I am making about a quarter of that. If you're nice I might consider posting the link (not a referral link either). But the way I've been treated, I highly doubt that I will. Those that have remained neutral though are still favorable. Despite what everyone thinks, I posted this out of genuine concern and several of you have replied out of ignorence. So be it.
All I have to say is if you ban me then you have to ban the other few that have started the flame war.
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Topic: Freedom of Speech (Read 21578 times)
February 24, 2008, 05:23:15 pm
