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Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums!

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On 19/06/2016 2:58 AM, trudi.schwander@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 2:35:47 PM UTC+2, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> On 18/06/2016 4:05 PM, Y.Porat wrote:
>>> On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 10:32:20 AM UTC+3, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>>> On 17/06/2016 5:09 AM, Sven Andersson wrote:
>>>>> The web-forum Physics Forums censors unwanted postings that are ever so slightly outside the bounds of orthodox science. All it took for me to be banned for life, was three postings arguing for the ideas of Charles S. Cagle! The person that banned me for life is mfb, an "insights author" with 45 "followers". Apparently his insights are excellent when it comes to censorship. Galilei would have everything to fear from this man.
>>>>>
>>>>> Relativity or quantum physics could never have been even discussed, let alone accepted, if that kind of censorship had been in existence in the early 20th century!
>>>>>
>>>>> "Read the forum rules please. Peer-reviewed science that is discussed seriously in the scientific community only. Zero relative velocity for fusion is just nonsense."
>>>>>
>>>>> After this e-mail I was banned for life. Physics Forums don't respond to e-mails. No explanation. No apology. This stinks!
>>>>>
>>>>> "Peer-reviewed science that is discussed seriously in the scientific community only" Small wonder then, that physics is standing still!
>>>>>
>>>>> Modern day Galileis like Halton C. Arp would have known more about mfb and the type of "scientist" he represents. And the courageous scientists who make research into earth expansion would too. And many others who go ever so slightly against the accepted dogma...
>>>>>
>>>>> Last from Arp's book Seeing Red p270:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Referees
>>>>>
>>>>> Refereeing or "peer review" as is rather pompously called, is now unworkable. It has increasingly shown that it lets in the bad papers and excludes that good ones, exactly the opposite of what it is supposed to do."
>>>>>
>>>>> The only thing that peer review guarantees is orthodoxy, nowadays. Complete stasis is the result!
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't forget either to read on p259 "Big Science as the Medieval Church". A medieval church with mfb-like characters as grand-inquisitors...
>>>>>
>>>>> Sven
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> It's their forum,
>>>
>>> =================================
>>> while you say  'their*** forum
>>> how 'their
>>> what was their investment in it
>>
>> It's hosted somewhere. Someone is paying for it, and for its domain name
>> registration. That makes it theirs.
>>
>> Sylvia
>
> Who does this un-moderated forum that we are having discussions on belong to? Who is paying for this forum? How do moderated forums chose their moderators? Who do they pay to and who pays and how much?
>

This is a Usenet group, which is a rather different beast. There
are multiple Usenet servers owned by different people which distribute 
the group messages between them. The servers are typically either 
provided by ISPs to their customers, or are independently owned and 
accessed by paying a fee. There are a few independently owner servers 
that are free to use, but you get what you pay for. Either way, 
ownership of a server does not confer any power over groups, beyond 
decisions about whether to support a group at all, and how long posts 
are retained on that particular server. The group itself is not based on 
any particular server, and is not owned by anyone.

A moderated Usenet group is created at the behest of a person seeking to 
be the initial moderator. That person, and anyone subsequently appointed 
by that person, are essentially God as far as that particular group is 
concerned.

Sylvia.

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Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! Sven Andersson <pairwise.relations@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-16 12:09 -0700
  Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 12:34 -0700
  Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! James McGinn <jimmcginn9@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 21:17 -0700
  Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 22:52 -0700
    Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! trudi.schwander@gmail.com - 2016-06-16 23:27 -0700
      Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! James McGinn <jimmcginn9@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 16:46 -0700
  Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-06-17 17:32 +1000
    Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! trudi.schwander@gmail.com - 2016-06-17 01:04 -0700
      Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-06-18 12:54 +1000
        Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! trudi.schwander@gmail.com - 2016-06-17 22:01 -0700
          Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-06-18 15:06 +1000
            Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! trudi.schwander@gmail.com - 2016-06-17 23:37 -0700
      Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! James McGinn <jimmcginn9@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 17:06 -0700
    Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! Boris Mohar <borism_void_@sympatico.ca> - 2016-06-17 07:27 -0400
    Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! ClutterFreak <ClutterFreak@FakeAddress.com> - 2016-06-17 10:15 -0500
    Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2016-06-17 23:05 -0700
      Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-06-18 22:35 +1000
        Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! trudi.schwander@gmail.com - 2016-06-18 09:58 -0700
          Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-06-19 14:10 +1000
            Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! trudi.schwander@gmail.com - 2016-06-18 23:56 -0700
              Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-06-19 17:16 +1000
                Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! trudi.schwander@gmail.com - 2016-06-19 08:24 -0700
              Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! James McGinn <jimmcginn9@gmail.com> - 2016-06-19 08:04 -0700
    Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! James McGinn <jimmcginn9@gmail.com> - 2016-06-19 08:01 -0700
  Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 13:12 -0700
    Re: Ridiculous, idiotic censorship on Physics Forums! pnalsing@gmail.com - 2016-06-18 13:45 -0700

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