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Welcome to the Paradigm Shifts Forum!

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Anthony

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Date Posted: 07:11:59 03/23/01 Fri

Welcome to the Paradigm Shifts forum!

This page has gone through some rapid changes in its short life. There was a rash of personal attacks on me recently. This acted as a wake-up call to me, making me more cautious of the Internet medium. I still regard the Internet as an amazing new means of human communication. But just like any other medium we have created, there are those that abuse the Web.

As a result of these recent attacks, I feel obliged to lay down some rules for this forum. In my opinion, just like there are chat room rules that determine whether someone gets booted off, there need to be rules for forums. I despise censorship, but some people go too far under the cloak of free speech. These people use the First Amendment as an excuse to post profanity, pornography, and personal attacks. That, to me, is an abuse of free speech and frankly immature. It is a slap in the face of the good old fashioned tradition of friendly debate and argumentation.

Therefore, I reserve the right to delete all posts that involve content that I deem innapropriate for this forum. I will not allow people to post personal information regarding another person. I will NEVER censor honest debate, heated though it may get. I will NEVER censor criticism of the site. But I WILL not tolerate people that are obviously trying to disrupt the forum, for the protection of the people that use the forum and for myself. Thanks to all of those who come here in the name of honest conversation. You don't know how much I appreciate it.

ACS

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[> Subject: Re: Welcome to the Paradigm Shifts Forum!
Author: Zisel ben [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 08:52:37 03/23/01 Fri Well spoken. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]