Cossey: Ban?

[Singh1]

@99FRC

You can NOT be legally banned for what you say or type, as long as it does not have anything to do with being illegal.

then i know a couple of forums …that…:haha

@99FRC

Board owners need to wake up and get used to the idea that a person has every legal right to defend themselves and just because they ban someone does not mean that the person being banned has no legal rights to pursue the matter.

i think this is one of the most easy-going forums on the internet right now… ok maybe not that close, but this is so far from a strict forum you really cant deny it…

@RTrac1

you do realize that law protects freedom of speech on the INTERNET, not a private forum right?

…it means you have to get your own site to say what you want.

• 1 :lol

@Vovchandr

99FRC you can’t be serious.

You’re wrong, ignorant and arrogant on so many levels, I don’t even know where to start.

Freedom of speech even in life is not obsolute and is limited. You can’t wear a shirt with a racial slur on it to a school, you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater, you can’t swear in a business if they don’t approve it, they will ask you to leave or call the police to make you leave, yes over speech.

See a similarity? Internet is GLOBAL, US state law is useless on a mass scale. Fine let’s say the server IP is based in US, you still agreed to the contract upon signup. You agreeing to a business contract have to follow it, otherwise we ask you to leave or you’re E-tresspassing.

Cossey was simply following a rule we established since the start of forum where discriminatory and racial slurs are not allowed. We catch them when we can.

You say you got black friends? That’s great. Are you friends with every black member? Can you say they are all cool with it?

If you’re so down with the term, go to Albany High during the day and Arbor Hill at night with your comment on your shirt and see how long you last.

Seriosly dude? I expected better out of you.

++++++++++ 1 i would rep u but im too lazy to go back and do so… perfectly perfect response

@OsoiNA6

Major +1. Vlad thanks for posting this.

As for those who want to come in and say “but I was not offended so…” that’s all well and good but everyone is DIFFERENT and it is these differences we should be mature enough to understand and respect.

Are we so self-centered that if a word is acceptable to “me” then it is fine to use anywhere, anytime?

99FRC, I’m calling you out - post up a picture of you hanging with some black guys, looking like you are chums. I don’t want a photo of you and the token black guy at your workplace / town forcing a smile 'cause he’s surrounded by white folks… Go on and show us all a photo that makes it clear how tight ya’ll are with the brothers…

It won’t change my opinion that your comment should not be on a public forum, but it would be entertaining for me. So humor an old man.

+1 on the pictures, everyone “has a bunch of black friends”

but srsly, glad you guys figured it out, i dont think making a thread was a good idea, but in this case it worked out good… cossey is just trying to do what he was told to do, as a moderator, enforce the FEW rules that we have… like vlad said, we catch them while we can…cant get every rule breaking while it happens…we are here on a voluntary basis…remember that

for the record tho, that argument on your end was going nowhere, if you sign up on a kids forum and post things like that, they are so in the RIGHT to ban your ass… i’ve been to forums that ban for many many things that have nothing to do with any law breaking…

we all just want to have fun and chill out…so lets do that instead of bitch