Originally Posted by
UAL T38 Phlyer
Capt:
This should not be a surprise for you.
While the US Constitution gives us freedom of speech, it doesn't mean you can say anything you want.
The APC Terms of Service give you a venue to express your viewpoint, but it doesn't mean you can say whatever you want.
I agree with your points above in that the thread was indeed controversial or emotional, and (at first) it was informative or educational.
But it didn't stay there. It devolved into a very ugly arena of name-calling, accusations, allegations, racism, and race-baiting. Frankly, I found it embarrassing that these were posts by "professional" airline pilots.
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Actually that helps with my understanding greatly.
So let me ask, why not just back up a few posts to insure that the most offensive degradation of the conversation is deleted and then freeze the thread?
I think we could all live with that. I was working and never had a chance to read all the way through the thread. PRIOR to it spinning out of control, I made a post - attempting to cool the growing craziness and intended to read the rest when I got home, but it was gone by then.
Just thinking we could have saved most of the intelligent discussion for the purpose of education and preservation and prevented further posts or inflammatory ones.