Res Ipsa wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 10:20 pm
It doesn't look like Spam.
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As my computer is close to replacement age, I clicked on the link.
Here's my deal which isn't a free speech issue so much as protecting people who use the board. You have a super high level, "safe" forum on a board? Walls of links to unidentifiable sites should not be in that forum. That is just bad board hygiene and internet risk management.
You have a forum that is clearly a place specifically for walls of unidentifiable links and identified risk located where someone who doesn't care if they get computer VD knows the risk of clicking on something and chooses to do so? Put walls of unidentifiable links in that location.
I say that because it was my reaction to the original post. I didn't react to the claim it was linked to Mein Kampf because speech is something valued and protected here, even garbage speech like Hitler's writings. It is what it is. But when I saw the post I went right on by and wondered what kind of sucker would click on one of those links. Maybe Shades pays mods better than I assume but I'd think moving walls of unidentifiable links is the right option over mods having to check if the links are safe.
If I were a tech admin like Gad, I'd probably just delete the post and anyone who complained would be invited to take it up with management. And if management took issue I'd ask for them to buy me a quarantine computer and pay hourly for my time keeping the board protected from risky board posting behavior if they didn't want me to delete risky looking posts.
A link isn't speech. It's an invitation to open an otherwise closed door.