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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: RC Storick on December 16, 2006, 06:57:03 AM

Title: Censorship
Post by: RC Storick on December 16, 2006, 06:57:03 AM
I am not into censorship. I believe that as an American we as a people should be free to express our Ideas. However on Stunt Hangar these ideas are limited to modeling topics. I have only had to remove a few topics and lock down a dozen or so topics in ten months. Also if you payed attention I am not excluded from these rules. There have been a few locked out because of not following the rules. Not too bad.

Keep in mind the principles of Stunt Hangar. A place to gather information on how to build a model airplane.As long as the principles and guide lines are met this is a place to gather and enjoy each others thoughts. Just like you would at the field.

This is one of the reasons everyone will have their real first and last name in their profile. Its not an anonymous community. At the end of the year I will be pruning the board and if these simple guide lines are not met, profiles will be removed and IP's banned. The First and last name rule infraction is one I will not tolerate to be broken. That's the nice thing about the electronic age. If you have put a fictitious name in your profile I will know it. So my best suggestion is to fix this problem before I find out. This is an infraction that there is no second chance.
Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: frank carlisle on December 16, 2006, 10:59:37 PM


What if someone is in the FBI witness protection program?? ~~>
Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: minnesotamodeler on December 17, 2006, 12:05:20 AM
Is this a personal problem, Frank? Been messing with that guillotine again?
Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: frank carlisle on December 17, 2006, 04:19:38 AM
NOT ME MAN!!

                   I didn't do it.......................honest. n1
Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: dennis lipsett on December 17, 2006, 06:17:53 AM
NOT ME MAN!!

                   I didn't do it.......................honest. n1

'"Me thinks thou doust protest too loudly "
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Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: john e. holliday on December 17, 2006, 07:20:13 AM
Robert, that is what is so great about this site.  If you can't say it face to face, forget it.  Keep up the great work.  DOC Holliday
Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: L0U CRANE on December 18, 2006, 01:21:07 AM
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...
Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: L0U CRANE on December 18, 2006, 08:15:52 PM
...Oh, and Frankie,

Those in the WPP had better use the name they were 'elected' to use by the feebs, or why bother trying to keep them among the breathing..?

That's the legit, gov't approved name. I'm sure this site will accept it for the necessary purposes.

(Now, what IS WAS Frankie's real name?  **)

Merry Christmas, or if you celebrate a different occasion at this time of year, all the best for that, as well.
Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: Charlie Pate on December 22, 2006, 05:33:25 PM
If you can,t sign your name to it ,There must be a reason, and not a good one!
Such as the letter sent out about Bob Hunt.
You didn,t get one? Good!
Now as to Frank, He does remind me of one of " The men in Black".HMMMMM! %^
Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: Leroy Heikes on December 22, 2006, 05:44:48 PM
I thought, Frank, looked familiar when I first met him! **) **)

Leroy
Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: Ted Winterman on February 11, 2007, 09:33:38 AM


         Lou,
     Thanks for helping to defend our nation.
 Your reply was great.
         Ted
Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: W.D. Roland on February 12, 2007, 07:20:49 PM
guilty as charged! uncharged also!
 hand cuff me-flog me--tar and feathers to---note:feathers must be installed straight or i ll fly like im warped #^

the more i surf c/l forums the more reason i find to come here H^^

name with held to protect the others
Title: Re: Censorship
Post by: Bill Little on February 13, 2007, 07:28:02 AM
I got here late on this one.....................  House rules apply!  D>K

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