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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
To improve the site. Some light amount of political news and views should be allowed. Sometimes the responses STRAY away from the original thread. That is considered BAD and the thread often (but not always) gets cancelled. I believe that a thread STRAYS because that is what the TOTV users WANT to happen and should be allowed to continue. In other words the leash should be longer before threads are cancelled. To me TOTV is a Community talk platform and limiting of the talk is a limiting of FREE SPEECH. I get the feeling that I have to 2nd guess whatever I say because the SPEECH POLICE will bust my - - - - s. I can imagine what people in Germany before WW2 must have felt like.
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I also think that too many posters want to control what other posters say. People should be open to other points of view. The purpose of a talk forum should be to involve ALL points of view. I have learned to NOT criticize other posters directly, but I find that many posters will criticize me directly. If all points of view are NOT allowed then a Talk Discussion group just devolves into UNIFIED group think. Personally, I find that the most interesting (to me) posters are the ones that are critical of the STATUS QUO in The Villages. Nothing is PERFECT so what is the point of NOT being able to point out small problems and their solutions. If we wanted ALL GROUP THINK we could move to CHINA.