Removing a post

Please would the webmaster of this site furnish instructions on how a post already on the site may be removed by the poster?

Also if the post belong to one person but was NOT posted by the owner, how would the "owner" remove the post?

Thank you for your prompt attention to these questions.

Pat

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Freedom of speech From

Freedom of speech

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Freedom of speech is the concept of being able to speak freely without censorship. It is often regarded as an integral concept in modern liberal democracies. The right to freedom of speech is guaranteed under international law through numerous human rights instruments, notably under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, although implementation remains lacking in many countries. The synonymous term freedom of expression is sometimes preferred, since the right is not confined to verbal speech but is understood to protect any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.

In practice, the right to freedom of speech is not absolute in any country, although the degree of freedom varies greatly. Industrialized countries also have varying approaches to balance freedom with order. For instance, the United States First Amendment theoretically grants absolute freedom, placing the burden upon the state to demonstrate when (if ever) censorship is necessary; Canadian law places the burden upon the individual to demonstrate how the speech benefits the public (e.g. hate speech is illegal); and the European Convention on Human Rights guarantees freedom outside specific circumstances in which it prescribes censorship (e.g. to protect national security). In most all liberal democracies, it is generally recognized that restrictions should be the exception and free expression the rule; nevertheless, compliance with this principle is often lacking.


Censorship, the control of

Censorship, the control of speech and other forms of human expression. In many (but not all) cases, it is exercised by governing bodies.

Furthermore, discussion of censorship often includes less formal means of controlling perceptions by excluding various ideas from mass communication.

Censorship is regarded among a majority of academics in the Western world as a typical feature of dictatorships and other authoritarian political systems. Democratic nations are represented, especially among Western government, academic and media commentators, as having somewhat less institutionalized censorship, and as instead promoting the importance of freedom of speech.

Some thinkers understand censorship to include other attempts to suppress points of view or the exploitation of negative propaganda, media manipulation, spin, disinformation or "free speech zones." These methods tend to work by disseminating preferred information, by relegating open discourse to marginal forums, and by preventing other ideas from obtaining a receptive audience.

A recent phenomenon attempts a form of counter-censorship, speaking directly to members of society in a culture jamming effort. Individuals or non-conforming groups use mass communication techniques to attack implicit domination, offering trivial or deliberately irrelevant messages to blunt the impact of dominant mass communication.

Throughout history, mass protests have served as a method for resisting unwanted impositions, though modern technology often affords control of mass meetings to the groups who control the sound amplification systems around which the meetings are organized.

Modern sound-reinforcement technology has sometimes led to a perhaps mistaken perception that all those in attendance at mass gatherings agree on a broad spectrum of ideas, when in reality, individual members of the crowd might agree only in narrow measure with those whose voices are amplified.

It has been suggested that mass reproduction, through broadcast, print, and network technology, of the ideas amplified from a podium can effectively censor the voices of individual members of a crowd.

On July 9 I posted an

On July 9 I posted an inquiry and as of this date there has been no answer.

Is there an Administrator of this site or is it just a ruse? I still would like to know how a poster would either remove or edit a post?

Please respond...thank you.

Pat
pharuff@earthlink.net
August 7, 2006

I join Pat's question, and

I join Pat's question, and want to add my own: Is this website about HOAs (as its name suggests) or is it dedicated to express the political views of its administrator (nicknamed "Admin"), including his obvious hatred to Jews and Israel? And who the hell is "Egeria" and what he/she is doing on this forum?

Ms. BRAINY

Patrick is entitled to his

Patrick is entitled to his opinions, like every other American. Or do you think that only the Israel Lobby has a right to put forward propaganda in support of Israel's actions in the Middle East? Do you think that we, Americans, don't own our country, and don't possess a brain with which to think for ourselves? Do you think that only the Zionists own America and all her means of communications?
And please, don't confuse "Jews" with Zionists. Many Jews that I know, being inteligent sentient-thinking human beings, HATE WHAT THE STATE OF ISRAEL IS DOING in the Middle East, and HAS DONE TO US HERE IN AMERICA. We are Americans, not Israelis like you, Ms. Brainy.

Egeria

Ms.

Ms. Egeria-Noley-Marel-Carminis,

I am glad you (and your husband) have finally found a forum to express your political opinions. According to you (and your husband, Mr. Marel) there are two forces dominating the U.S., the U.N., the whole world, and perhaps the entire solar system: Israel and CAI. I am sure both would be very happy to know that.

However, none of this has anything to do with this thread, except in your twisted mind.

Ms. BRAINY

Israel certainly dominates

Israel certainly dominates the foreign and domestic policy of the USA, this is certainly something we all AMERICANS should be profoundly ashamed of (including the fundamentalist Christians, who have been coopted by the Israeli Lobby). The atrocities committed by the State of Israel, in both Palestine & Lebanon, are common knowledge now of every well informed citizen, in spite of massive blockage of anti-Israeli news by the Jewish Lobby and the Jewish ownership of all the media. Israel is also living off our money, and we are transmitting all of these trillions of dollars of debt to our children and granchildren. You find nothing wrong with what ISRAEL is doing to us, AMERICANS. Because you are an Israeli. That's the difference.

But many consciencious and patriotic American Jews are now exposing the nefarious deeds of Israel, such as Amy Goodman (New York Jew), in her program DEMOCRACY NOW (Link TV),and Noam Chomsky, of Harvard University. Patrick is also courageous enough to do it in his newsletter which you are now attempting to censor.

Egeria

who is Patrick?

who is Patrick?

If a person is "logged in"

If a person is "logged in" when they post, they can edit/change whatever they post. If an individual posts anonymously whether they sign their name or not, the post is permanent and uneditable. If you wish to edit your posts, you must be logged in when you post them.

I hope this answers your questions.....


Well that sucks! So if

Well that sucks! So if someone makes a mistake there is no way they can correct it. Or if someone posts something and puts someone elses name as the poster there is no possibility for removal, right?

So to Patrick, since you have full and complete control of this site, CAN YOU correct or delete a post for another person?? And if you have this ability, would you???

This question is for Patrick.

Thank you....

Pat

Get back in your cage you

Get back in your cage you CAI shill. If he's smart, he will just ignore you and your demand for censorship.

I was asked to respond to

I was asked to respond to your initial question by another poster, so I did.

This comment is to address your comment

Quote: "so if someone makes a mistake there is no way they can correct it"

If that someone LOGS IN PRIOR to posting they have FULL EDITING CAPABILITIES over their own posts.


Thanks for the reply Rauni.

Thanks for the reply Rauni. It makes sense. If one posts as "anonimous", and if editing abilities would be provided for such posting, then ANYBODY will be able to edit tnat post, not only the poster. Obviously, you don't want this to happen.

Ms. Brainy

The advocates (or whatever

The advocates (or whatever they are) seem determined to turn this site into a quarreling gated community. Hypocrites. I find the information here very informative and some of the videos outright scary, others side-splitting hilarious. My wife cracked up when I showed her the politician getting hit with a chair. Rarely do I have time to read the HOA cry baby articles so I hope whoever runs the site keeps it going with the more interesting info and ignores the trouble makers. Besides, the only one I know that lives in a HOA is my office manager who was dropped on his head at birth. Just my two cents.

Don's View of the Day

Freedom of speech means that

Freedom of speech means that I can stand in front of my legislators and point out the crimes of extortion racketeering, barratry racketeering and other criminal behavior - including "official oppression".

I've stood in front of my HOA board of dictators in an annual meeting and read "the definition of tyranny" by John Adams. I then described our HOA as exactly that...all power vested in the hands of one group of men who weild "A color of Authority". This is the United States of America, and the HOA form of governance - when mandated with taxing authority - is absolute despotism incarnate.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, you Fascist Mafia maggots.

Mandatory Associations Foreclosing in America, the new definition of MAFIA.

Someone contact Webster's dictionary corporation and submit a new colloquial term, pleasse?

An Army of One

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