Cossey: If you post one more racial slur or comment, you will be banned for 7 days.
First off. You will not ban me. What I type on this forum is protected under the constitution of the united states. Unless my post is illegal or provokes an illegal act, I can, in layman terms, say whatever the hell I want. (See excerpt below).
Second off. My post was clearly a joke. If you want to be a tree-hugging happy liberal and whine about it not being PC go ahead. But do NOT threaten my rights as an individual.
Third off: (Disclaimer): I have many black friends, we joke around, saying shit like I posted ALL the time. They laugh, I laugh. It is all in fun. If I offended anyone, I apologize but I will not be held to a double standard.
If there is in fact a law/rule that does not go against my rights, that states using the phrase “nigglet = speedbump” please show me a copy and I will willingly follow that rule.
Do I whine when people call me a Ginny or Italian Stallion? No. Why? Because it is actually fine with me. If it wasn’t fine with me I would cease to associate with that person. And if there are people who are going to take my post out of context and grind into a “racial slur” as you so eloquently put it. I don’t want to be associated with them either. RELAX.
Freedom of speech on the Internet
In a rare 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court extended the full protection of the First Amendment to the Internet in Reno v. ACLU Communications Decency Act , a law intended to outlaw so-called “indecent” online communication (that is, non-obscene material protected by the First Amendment.) The court’s decision extended the same Constitutional protections given to books, magazines, films, and spoken expression to materials published on the Internet. Congress tried a second time to regulate the content of the Internet with the Child Online Protection Act (COPA). The Court again ruled that any limitations on the internet were unconstitutional in American Civil Liberties Union v. Ashcroft (2002) .
check forums terms of use… as much as our freedom of speech may be protected under the constitution if there is such a rule that prohibits its use on a private site or forum it is at the moderator/administrators discretion on course of action to be taken… (ie: banning) so as much as i agree with your comments… in lehmans terms… you’re fucked.