Spark,
Easy enough!
Personally, I'd be more worried about any who find it too "restrictive" !
We fly model airplanes. We share what goes with that. If we choose to share more than that, we should be sensitive, perhaps, to the atheists among us (FCM?) ...or to those who consider a flier, or a manufacturer, or whatever, to be beyond critical comment.
Where criticism is due, let it come before us all. But, PLEASE!, include enough raw fact and detail that our friends - whoever they are - can decide for themselves? And, as Joe Friday always insisted, "...just the facts, sir (or madam, as the case may be)." Emotion may be inevitable, but it is always a source of problems in reaching a broad agreement.
As to 'shielding' publications, organizations, manufacturers, or individuals from adverse comment...
Houston, we have a problem...
For me, if such disagreements can be put into unemotional, fact-based form, the neutral comparisons should let people, whose main thing in life is not political harangue, to choose which point of view is more sensible. (As a retired soldier, I put a career into preserving the freedom to make such a choice.)
I haven't always thought the choice made, by the majority of the people, or by the government in power at the time, to be the wisest possible, based on whatever insider informaton I had... But, as a sworn defender of our system, I accepted what I had to do.
We have a HOBBY, for goodness sakes! Something we do because it pleases us to do it... Few if any of us make a living from our hobby. Most of us spend much more on them we than we "make" from our hobbies. Can we just write it off as an entertainment expense, like chasing group tours? I hope not, since we DO put so much into our models, whether building/finishing them, or practicing with them, or just enjoying them in non-contest conditions...
The most basic thing is that we have to be trusted enough to be a friend acceptable to launch a friend's model, and to have friends we trust enough to launch ours. Unless our arms are 60+' long, and we don't need the flying lines...
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