The mods on SYG have a wise habit of maintaining their anomymity.
I can understand how she would want to protect her reputation on her own board but am confounded to understand how SYG might be blamed for any of this. I am curous Mr X if you might have any ideas about this?
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Well I can't find the posts that were originally on page one and 2 of this very thread but someone mentioned flooding Ifeminist bandwidth while another talked about cloaking IPs. I did see those posts myself so I know they aren't made up. They may have been removed by the moderator but I know Wendy read those message and became concerned that some people here might do somethings to her board.
She had an incident about 6 months back where some kids on a car hotrod site decided to come to ifem just to create trouble. I guess either Wendy or someone runs a google search for iFem now and again and that series of "hey lets go f%ck their board" messages showed up. So its not unusual for people from other boards like that one or from the Oxygen board or other boards to come to her board just to kick the hornets nest.
She is also dealing with a law suit right now about IF someone sends a newsletter that is in anyway pro-pedophile, they can be pursued by the feds and arrested/charged. She posted a topic about this on her forum. Apparently the forum CAN be used as evidence IF the forum has some messages that imply a pro stance of some kind. So again she's worried about what gets posted on her forum.
I actually don't know why this spiralled out of control like this. Wendy was trying to stop a lot of the same, repetitive male vs female conflicts that were arising on her board.
I've lurked on ifeminism for about a year and from my perspective Mr. X is almost always right on the beam. He does not come across as a radfem-bashing lunatic but also calls out crap and debates it rationally when he sees it. But forget the gender issues for a second. Mr. X, I believe that you have called yourself a Libertarian in the past. I could be wrong. But even if I am, can you offer some explanation as to how the decision to exclude (ban) a raft of people, many who have never even heard of ifeminism, comports with the principles of libertarianism? This is not a "baiting" question; I am trying to get eductated on this issue. Thanks.
Actually that's quite easy. Libertarians hold that private property is the center of human rights. Its her board. She can choose to dump anyone with a Q in their name if she wants to. iFem is NOT a public institution its private property and by that very position, she can justify banning people. Libertarian is NOT egalitarianism. It makes no attempt at making everyone equal. All it says is DON'T use the law to make people UNEQUAL. This board has the same rights. Its not a public (tax funded) forum. Its run by private people who can choose to exclude anyone they want.
Now as to why the exclusions make sense or not is another issue. That in itself as nothing to do with libertarian. Libertarian says you can boot anyone wearing pink off your property but makes no attempt to explain WHY pink wearing people got booted.
Hope that helps.
