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Originally posted by Colly@31 March 2004 - 22:25
Censorship free thread? May we test that statement please?
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I don't believe this appears to be a truly censorship thread.
Both tests were URLs to point to es5-dot-com, but only the second one remained uncensored due to some slight of hand while posting. Mouseover on the second link and check the status line to see where it points to. That URL had to be posted as [SPAM] to get past this forums automatic censorship bots, yet it is simply a very small link to a P2P site that is simply one among many. Why not also censor other p2p links? There appears to be a definite bias in the CENSORSHIP of THIS forum, including within THIS mis-named "censorship-free thread" - at least until the censorship bot is removed from general service throughout the filesharingtalk forums. Besides, in the end it didn't really accomplish ANYTHING did it? - except to reveal and prove the forum sponsors' OWN biased opinions exposed by a rather lame, childish, simple, and ultimately ineffective censor-bot.
While everybody is most certainly entitled to their own opinions, forum mods included, I hope everybody else here would be equally offended to find someone/something actively working to automatically suppress any divergent opinions.
I think everybody ought to be free to try out ANY of the p2p programs and discuss and report in forums on their own personal experiences with the software without being immediately branded & censored. I've downloaded more stuff with Kazaa and, later, K-Lite, than with ES5 because I've been using them both for much longer. I've only been using ES5 since last August, but in that period, it's undergone remarkable transformations and extensive improvement which I have been able to experience first hand. Might I add that any links to competing p2p software that I might post in the ES5 forums would NOT be getting censored as is done here.
By the way, if the mods are thinking of enhancing the bot to take also out "[SPAM]", think again. There are 2,047 combinations of hex & plain text that could be juggled to create the same effective URL and after that, ES5 also probably owns about a thousand registered domain names that'll go to the same place (only made necessary by censorship such as was found here.) So why not simply remove the idiotic, ineffective little censorbot that only serves to fan the flames?
If you'd read the rules of the thread, then you would have noticed that the normal Board Rules still apply.
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3. Spam is not permitted in any form. Any posting or messaging of junk content is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to: unsolicited advertising, deceptive links,