Most political forums that I have been on, and I exist on almost all political forums, are privately owned and run. This means that the admins and staff supersede your freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of emotions. On most political forums, the power of political bias from the administration is far worse than what you see here. When you encounter censorship or other problems that are only possible because of the authority of the staff, the best you can do is be confident that somebody had to take a low road to alter your content. There are times, although they are quite rare, where actions from forum staff can make the community better, but the more common situation is where action is taken to make the site function the way the rightful owner wants it to. It is confusing sometimes, since we are people who are accustomed to having many rights, but we must remember the rights of those who have paid for and maintain the various political forums.
My righty name that I use on this site has been banned from most lefty run political forums, including ones that I have made financial contributions to. It seems a little weird that a political forum would ban a financial contributor, but if it is important enough to the owners of those sites to block righty input that they would ban a financial contributor, they should be able to do that. I know it is difficult to forget all your constitutional rights, but when you are on a privately owned and run site you are on private property where the owner can dictate the rules or lack thereof.
It is important to remember that politics are an extremely ugly sport, and that fairness is not in the rule book. Slander, insults, and even literal bloody wars are par for the coarse. One should expect mocking, slander, racism, and his worse fears to take place when talking politics, since this is what politics are about. If you are on a gardening or engineering forum, that's a whole different story. Politics are incredibly ugly, so you should be ready willing and able to spar with some really ugly shit when we debate politics.
While this forum may not be perfect, it is one of the the closest to reality that I have encountered. Crazy shit like our local Evince bot is something that I welcome, as well as all the rest of my political opponents. When they call me racist or any of the other obligatory lefty synonyms for righty, I know that the world is full of crazy shit like this. Bring it!
