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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider
okay.....
"A sensible manner = a manner where people that may have vastly different points of view can still manage to discuss the good and bad sides of the coin from both sides in an adult fashion, without letting emotion bleed into it, without namecalling, without being attacked for having a different point of view than the other side.
How that be, when you consider some people to be "small-minded, foul-mouthed and frothing trolls"? doesn't that very premise negate your position?
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Do you honestly want me to believer, Wolf, that you don't know the difference from a discussion between two sensible people and someone who just wants to troll and provoke a shit-throwing contest? You have been here on these boards long enough that the difference between them should be rather obvious.
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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider
I already have several different interpretations of what "free speech" is, Fjordmonkey. I was asking you for yours... but to save a lot of grief, I'll just cut the chase and offer "calling people names", just inhibits their right to free speech through intimidation.
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If someone is intimidated by another member on an internet discussion-board, then I would say that the 'net is probably not for them. Especially if you're dealing with a forum where you have people of many different nationalities and languages present.
My interpretation of what free speech actually happens to be on an internet board is irrelevant, since there
IS no free speech on a forum like this. Asking me what my definition is in regards to real life is equally irrelevant, since that doesn't have any bearings on what happens here. But since you asked, I'll answer: Personally, I think that free speech is nonexistent, since unless you can't, in any country of the world, say absolutely anything you want without being punished for it.