FreeRepublic does not like Free Speech

[Doohickie]

Hey guys,

You may remember me from the "I Believe!" threads after the election. I've laid low for a while now. Anyway, through an internet search on my username, I came across several threads on FreeRepublic about my threads from way back when. The Freepers got quite the kick out of witnessing my disillusionment as I came to realize W would be re-elected.

Anyway, I didn't harbor any ill will toward those guys and wanted to post a few comments to some of the people who posted in the Freeper threads about my threads. So I signed up to FreeRepublic, posted a couple PMs and made one anti-Hillary comment in a thread speculating about a Clinton-Clinton ticket in 2008. I'm not really a fan of Hillary but that's neither here nor there. But in my post I said something like "I'm a Democrat, but I wouldn't vote for Hillary." One post.

And I was banned. What a bunch of inbred, intolerant xenophobes. Free Republic. Right. Free. You betcha.







Morans.

[Mythsaje]

1. I did something similar

and came up with whole threads posted there.

These people are rather sad, aren't they?

[meisje]

2. hate to burst your bubble, but the same thing happens here

Du is not "Free" or Democratic

[Dr Fate]

3. I'm glad too. I like having a DEMS only web site.

Before Air America, DU was pretty much the ONLY DEMS only place in media.

Plenty of other places on the web to post pro-Bush or anti-DEM stuff...

[Spiffarino]

4. I've seen admitted Repubs post here

The only banning I witnessed was when they started pushing people's buttons. What have you seen?

[Dr Fate]

6. We used to have a token Republican named "Repub"

He was here forever- he was a moderate Republican- he either left or was eventually tomb-stoned...

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Right

[RandomKoolzip]

5. Yeah, both sites have rules. But so what?

THis place is for, by, and about Democrats/Liberals. FR is for, by, and about Republicans/Conservatives. They don't allow trolls from our side? Big fucking whoop. I wouldn't expect them to tolerate Dems on their site. Why invite moles to a planning session?

Rules is rules.

[Doohickie]

7. But the point was

I WASN'T trolling. I was Hillary bashing. You'd think they would greet me with open arms.

I agree that if I was going around bashing Repubs and otherwise being a disrupting influence, flush me outta there. That's true on any forum. But just to admit I'm a Dem?

No class at all.

[Syrinx]

8. I got banned from there...

For saying that I don't think Ann Coulter seems like a very nice person.

[Mnemosyne]

12. I told them I was praying for them

to see how their president is not a Christian and may be the antichrist. Boom, gone in a flash. :evilgrin:

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Simply amazing

[grasswire]

11. I wouldn't have too much trouble with their policy except...

....for the fact that the owner used the First Amendment as a defense against copyright infringement when the LA Times and The Washington Post sued freerepublic.com.

[Syrinx]

13. their "policy" is peculiar, to say the least

As noted above, I got banned for just saying Anncoulter doesn't seem real nice. I can't think of a real left-wing counterpart to Coulter. But for argument's sake, can you imagine anyone getting banned from DU for saying that, I don't know, Michael Moore or Mike Malloy, isn't too sweet?

NOTE: I am not comparing Moore or Malloy to Coulter. It's just that there is no counterpart on the left for that bloody cyst of a human.