[IMC-Boston-Editorial] Veteran Trolls

[Sofia JarrinT]

I agree there is a very fine line between  censorship and hiding "empty" posts.  Who am I to say what's  empty?  More than anything, I think that shutting down one troll  (such as Veteran) because of his views will just entice him to be even  more disruptive.
  
  On the plus side, I've noticed some of our other readers have adopted his name, to post, such as:
  "The Iraqi people are not horrible! They are a great and proud people  who have been oppressed for many, many years. The DO NOT need to be  kept "under control". They have the same rights as you and I."
  
  That's pretty funny.  I guess we can just keep an eye on it.
  

"Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon at csail.mit.edu> wrote:  
I share your concern, there does seem to be a creaping (sometimes running)
trend toward censorship usually through an invocation of some "ism" on our
banned list.  The problem I see with that is that one can't have meaningful
discussion aimed at changing attitudes if the barest hint of that attitude
is summarily deleted, though I think there is a line that should not be
crossed.

In the instance cited (I didn't have time to research his invovement else
where), my main objection is the number of posts with no additional content.
This drags down the readability of the page and generally kills the
discussion.

-jon

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