True. I saw a thread about 'anyone who says that is BANNED!' and I was starting to read it.MarcosZeitola wrote:...The more you forbid people from discussing certain issues, they more they will be brought up. Awful as this may be for you personally, fighting it by censorship only has the opposite effect of what you are trying to achieve
About the topic itself, who is Dianna? I heard a while ago, Winston has a child with her - and so what? I never met her in my life, I am not interested in her and really why should I care what she did or did not in her past? I have nothing to do with her personally.
Generally let me say, to publish sensible topics openly on the internet which can be read and also copied by everybody and expect only comments in return you like to hear but otherwise threatening frequent commenters within your blog or forum with deleting and banning because you do not agree with them is plainly wrong. This is how pro-feminist blogs are operating - follow the party-line or you are out.
This is not what I consider as 'free speech'.
Further, Orientexpat comes to my mind where many members were banned or left, (including me after over 11000 comments, but also Cornfed and even Winston himself) - the website could be a good niche-forum, but it is almost dead now because of single-sided moderation of the admin.
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HappierAbroad should not choose this form of moderation.