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The standards and practices they enforce on their Forums may not be for everyone, but it prevents the messages from degenerating into out of control flame wars and just plain utter nonsense (as seen in almost every Yahoo! News message board).



i agree 100% with what Diesel says here. some of you have some uneducated and clearly simple-minded views of what constitutes free speech and censorship. just because you can't say whatever vitriolic bullshit you want on *their* forum without it being *moderated* does not mean they are against free speech and advocate censorship. are they filing suit against people for posting things with which they disagree? are they telling people they absolutely can't say certain things?

if you invite me over to your house and i start talking trash about your family would you be anti-free speech for kicking me out? but ADT is a public forum, you say. a public forum which is privately owned. public in the sense that anyone and everyone is initially welcome to join. i suppose if i go to a restaurant and comment to every single female patron on the size of her breasts, the owners would be nazi dictators for kicking me out. or if i visit a zoo or a museum and start telling every parent i see that their child is butt-ugly - only narrow-minded, anti-free speech communists would have me escorted off the premises. publicly owned premises, i might add.

the incredible irony here is that Exoticgirl has proven herself that ADT is not against free speech with the creation of this thread and the contents within. are steph and drew threatening legal action against DVD Exotic for libel? have they anywhere stated that Exoticgirl cannot/should not be allowed to say negative things about them elsewhere? if the answer to either of those questions was a YES, then they would be discouraging freedom of speech.

so let's clarify things: yes, ADT is against allowing people to say *anything* they want on their site at any time. and for good reason, in the opinion of many. is that the same thing as being against free speech? only a simple-minded fool would think so. while i'm on the subject, i rather doubt that xxxporntalk.com allows people to say *anything* they want *anytime.* shall i spam the board with 50 posts in a row about how much i love michelle wild to find out? or post non-stop advertisements for penis enlargement pills? i wonder ...


P.S. i am no way, shape or form affiliated with ADT nor have i ever received any concrete benefit from them, monetary or otherwise. i AM a semi-regular poster on ADT (using the screen name wetmartini), my real name is Sam, and i DO support the way they run their site, as i support the *freedom* of any person to moderate a forum of his or her *own creation* to his or her *own liking.*

peace out