Censorship on Debate Politics?

[The_Real_ElRoi]

Once again censorship raises it ugly head on what it supposed to be an open and unbiased forum. Today I began a thread titles "Just one more reason to "thank" Dubya..."
http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...food-rise-inspections-drop-title-changed.html

that was about an article on how the FDA has been gutted over the last three years. For some unexplained reason the title of the thread was changed to the title of the article "Risks of tainted food rise as inspections drop." What is up with the "editorial license" of the moderators of this forum? Was there something offensive to the supposed "unbiased" moderators in the original title?

 

[Gardener]

Once again censorship raises it ugly head on what it supposed to be an open and unbiased forum. Today I began a thread titles "Just one more reason to "thank" Dubya..."http://www.debatepolitics.com/breaking-news/18407-risks-tainted-food-rise-inspections-drop-title-changed.html that was about an article on how the FDA has been gutted over the last three years. For some unexplained reason the title of the thread was changed to the title of the article "Risks of tainted food rise as inspections drop." What is up with the "editorial license" that the moderators of this forum? Was there something offensive to the supposed "unbiased" moderators in the original title?

What nonsense.


Changing the title to actually represent the article does not display bias, it counteracts it.

THe bias provided was yours not the forum's.

 

[The_Real_ElRoi]

As long as the title doesn't contain any offensive language it should be up to the author of the thread to decide what that title should be. Are you trying to say that by changing the title of a thread to make it more acceptable to a certain group or groups is not censorship?

cen·sor·ship (sěn'sər-shĭp')
n.
1. The act, process, or practice of censoring.
2. The office or authority of a Roman censor.
3. Psychology Prevention of disturbing or painful thoughts or feelings from reaching consciousness except in a disguised form.

 

[Simon W. Moon]

That is the Breaking News Forum. The Breaking News Forum has rules that pertain specifically to the Breaking News Forum.


These rules are contained in a sticky thread at the top of that forum. the name of that thread is "Guidelines & Rules - Please read *before* posting here."
Here is a link to that sticky thread with the rules for the Breaking News Forum:
Guidelines & Rules - Please read *before* posting here

One of those rules pertains to the titles of thread within that forum. Here is that rule:

The title of every post must be identical to the title of the news story headline. This is important as it helps to avoid multiple topics about an issue, while starting discussions out on a more neutral basis.

If a story is titled "Rice Negotiates With UN about Iran Nukes," then that should be the title of your thread, not "Warmongers Lie to try to Start WWIII" or "Condi Stands up to Euro-Wusses."
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I hope this helps you understand.

 

[Stace]

Perhaps if you read the rules and guidelines for the particular forum you were posting in, you'd understand.

In order to better organize the news forum and help spur debate across all the forums, "Today's News" has been renamed "Breaking News." Here are some guidelines to help you properly use this forum.

1. All posts must have a link to a news article, accompanied by some original commentary.

2. The title of every post must be identical to the title of the news story headline. This is important as it helps to avoid multiple topics about an issue, while starting discussions out on a more neutral basis.

If a story is titled "Rice Negotiates With UN about Iran Nukes," then that should be the title of your thread, not "Warmongers Lie to try to Start WWIII" or "Condi Stands up to Euro-Wusses."

3. All news stories should be from within the past 48 hours. If they are outside of that, please post them in the relevant discussion forum.

4. If you see a post that doesn't follow these guidelines, please let a mod know and we'll either move it to its proper place or work with the original poster to fix the issue.

5. Please help by following these guidelines closely so our forum can stay organized.

Thanks to everyone for your help, and have fun debating!

 

[Stace]

Hehe...great minds think alike, Simon.

 

[WI Crippler]

Damn modrators, always oppressing everyone :2razz:

 

[mikhail]

That is the Breaking News Forum. The Breaking News Forum has rules that pertain specifically to the Breaking News Forum.


These rules are contained in a sticky thread at the top of that forum. the name of that thread is "Guidelines & Rules - Please read *before* posting here."
Here is a link to that sticky thread with the rules for the Breaking News Forum:
Guidelines & Rules - Please read *before* posting here

One of those rules pertains to the titles of thread within that forum. Here is that rule:

The title of every post must be identical to the title of the news story headline. This is important as it helps to avoid multiple topics about an issue, while starting discussions out on a more neutral basis.

If a story is titled "Rice Negotiates With UN about Iran Nukes," then that should be the title of your thread, not "Warmongers Lie to try to Start WWIII" or "Condi Stands up to Euro-Wusses."
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I hope this helps you understand.

Yes but the media uses loaded words all the time in headlines whos to say whos is the most objective.Also everyone on here uses arguement fallacies at one point or another isnt that just how people get their point across most of the time?