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Originally Posted by loaferman61
When people in a position to inpose rules do so to say that a certain type of post is acceptable and encourage it openly, but at the same time say if you think different to keep it off the board, that is an issue. Take Meat and feelings out of it and look at the rule. People with rule making power openly endorse one thing, so how are they going to excersise that in ptactical application? This is a.slippery slope IMO.
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Sorry but I do not see our basic human rights being compromised or indeed on a slippery slope to some imagined perdition. Nor can I take the feelings of the man whose name is on every page here out of it.
I am supremely fortunate that I have met Meat many times, and will meet him again. Many will never do that. And my view is that for all those who will never get the opportunity to meet him, but who were thrilled when he posted here, replied to them, accepted PMs which were sometimes read, sometimes replied to, keeping him happy is worth it. His presence, on his terms, is worth what it meant and could mean to those people .. in my view.
Whatever the difficulties in what Mouse is trying to do here, I think he is reaching for the right way forward, for those fans as well as for Meat, who I think has earned the right to be kept a little happy when it comes to bootleg recordings .. he has given many of us a lot of happiness. That is my view, and no amount of freedom of speech or censorship sabre rattling will alter it I'm afraid .. just as I believe Meat has a right to be as sensitive as he may be, without girding on the hide of a rhinocerus
Caryl