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In most cases I would have to say that it isn't, though protecting those rights certainly is much easier when you have the money to defend yourself properly in court. In the US we really have a great degree of freedom in regards to expression of ideas, there are certainly threats to that free speech (like the Patriot act), but overall I dont think that money has much to do with it.
This is horrific. I can't believe it's actually being proposed... it's genocide.
Good. They should cut off funding if this passes.
We are not adding anymore mods.
Yeah, sorry I've been late on my current event. My schoolwork suddenly spiked and I haven't had time for it. It would be nice if someone else would help run it so we could switch off on weeks.
My question is why we have 4 mods in the first place.
Can someone maybe answer this?
While I understand the frustration, I don't completely agree with your point of view. In what other forum are moderator's role to promote activity? A moderator is only there to... moderate. I feel the DH is a fairly moderated forum: there is almost no cursing, flaming, trolling, rules are followed, etc.
This! I'm probably one of the biggest trolls on smashboards or use to be rather, but I don't even attempt that in the DH because Ck rules with an iron fist and two it's so moderated any humor I might get out of it would be short lived, plus I don't wanna get kicked.
This isn't really serious enough for Forum Disputes. I wanted to see what other people thought, not attempt to get someone demodded or complain to the admins.
In the article it mentions that basically Google was hacked to discover information about human-rights activists in China and other nations, which either they are assuming lead back to chinese government or they traced it there. Kind of frustrates me to think the government thinks their ends justify any means whatsoever.
I definitely agree with you, especially this paragraph. There are over a billion people living in China, and for all of those people to not be able to use Google because of the government's policies seems a bit harsh.
Forum Disputes is Admins and SMods (?) only. Plus the person who brought up the thread, of course. There isn't really a "best" place to bring up the subject =/
I guess this is true (just checked)... I didn't realize this was the case.
Well, I think it would mainly be the other services (i.e. gmail) that people would miss most. China already has a major search engine of their own, albeit highly censored. According to a student from China who recently spoke at my school, google works fine unless a search would yield a link deemed "harmful" to the Chinese government, in which case you are simply told the network connection could not be made. A few minutes later, you can do a successful search and the "harmful" link(s) will be gone. This also happens with online news sources, such as BBC.
PMs or VMs then.
As is the case whenever government/business attempts to censor or remove some existent technology only one thing comes to mind: what's the current workaround, and how long before it's so commonplace almost everyone with any computer skills is completely bypassing any obstacles...
Agreed. It's interesting that simply because of opposition, the government caved. But as I mentioned above, it could be that they realized if so many opposed the idea, it would fail miserably...
I had a count of PGers let in as far as visible results go.
Wow, that thread derailed so fast, ha ha.
It's an interesting idea; I don't see why not. It would be interesting to have this kind of thing in a mentoring thread where you could give them advice if they didn't do so well. It's kind of like a combination of this idea and Riddle's idea.
Yeah but without the proving grounds, the DH will become spammy and it's really annoying to have that happen to the one room where you don't have to wade through pages of one-liners and "10chars".
Yeah, I've been pondering such an alternate system myself. However, I think it would be better just to accept more PGers in general. You know, the ones that have at least some level of competence, good posting quality, and who are willing to learn.
The problem was your post had nothing to do with the topic at hand either. We're talking about Brawl, not SF, or MvC2, or any other fighting game. That was just my sad attempt at salvaging something remotely relevant out of your post.
Notice this:
It sounds like you're saying something about using the amount of people who use MK as an argument for banning him, which is indeed ludicrous, but after looking at it I really don't know what you're saying here. It was more a miscommunication than me derailing the topic. You have several spelling errors and a "Praxis?" smack dab in the middle of a sentence.
I'm the one with poor debate skills?
Let me ask you something Crashic, how many MK ban threads have you been present for?
