16 weeks

[JBR]

Remember rule number one of this forum: Thou shalt not criticise muslims.

It may seem that way but if you click the link below you can clearly see it was possible to discuss the impact muslims are having on this country.

//search.diynot.com/forum_sear...tbytime=0&author=&search=Search+Forum&stype=0

This one is quite funny //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=185256#185256

So what has changed? Perhaps the mad hatter posting several threads a night about muslims, and demanding the right to be heard has made the mods(and other forum members) more than a little weary, so now they get kicked into the long grass as soon as they appear.

The sad thing is that when something is posted worth debating, that too gets deleted.

I don't know why this recent spate of censorship has come about.

What I do know is that censoring the truth isn't going to change anyone's opinions about the subject, and wholesale censorship (without explanation) of one particular topic which the mods dislike reminds me of Orwell's 1984.

Edit: Talking of which, both the 'Western culture' and the 'It's confirmed' threads have been removed (without explanation).

I do think the forum rules need to include a new 'rule number one', then we'd all know where we stand.

 

[JBR]

I just thought I should have a look to make sure:

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No, nothing leaps out at me. I wonder which rule we have been breaking. The only one I have noticed being regularly contravened is Rule 1, and that's usually Joe!