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WSOB 2009 - GENEROSITY POSTPONED

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Sunday, 11 October 2009, at 12:37 a.m.

In Response To: WSOB 2009 - GENEROSITY POSTPONED (Christian Munk-Christensen)

Well, I looked at that dictionary's online site, and we're not going to agree on being half-right. Stick is not a censor of books or of the press. He's a website moderator. I won't agree, as you seem to feel I should, that a "moderator" is simply a "censor" by another name.

I don't want to argue about whose dic(tionary) is bigger. I think that misses a larger point. To illustrate that point, let me share an excerpt (translated) from in a discussion last year ("Debat om Bestyrelsens linje over for personangreb") in the DBgF debate pages. I found that discussion this morning, and completely agree with this part:

"We still have free speech in this country. All here in this debate are indeed welcome to write what they want on their own websites. I think it's entirely wrong to bring such concepts as "free speech" and "censorship" into the debate here, because that is not what this is about. We must ask ourselves why we have this forum and what it's for. ... What can we do to get a better debate? The most successful forums I've seen have active moderators. ... A moderator's role is short, to ensure that things work."

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