Removing the HCT.

[SeaHorse81]

I recently read the Steve Jobs biography, where I first learned that Apple products (which I don't use, so I didn't know) are apparently set up to not support viewing of porn sites. There was apparently a hue and cry about this being an attempt to control the behavior of users.

I didn't see it that way. I saw it as people in the world (leaders at Apple) deciding that they didn't want to support pornography, so they chose to create devices that couldn't be used that way. That doesn't control anyone's behavior. It doesn't even change their ability to do what they want. It just meant they couldn't do it with Apple devices, and Apple could be happy with knowing they weren't enabling an industry they considered problematic.

I think it's the same thing here. If I ran an Internet board and decided I didn't want erotic content on it, that would be my right, to the best of my knowledge. If you can't decide how to run your own business, what's the point of having one? You'll gain and lose customers based on how you decide to run it, but it's your business.

If people are going to get in a bunch over freedom, consider the freedom of business owners to build what they want. If you like SB, keep coming back. If you don't, there's a really big Internet out there with thousands of sites for whatever it is you want.

 

[Arubandi07]

Frank,

The main text of the TOS can be found here: Forum Rules - ScubaBoard - Scuba Diving Forum - Diving Social Network

Some forums have additional rules that can be found in the header of the forum when you surf to it.

R..

Please man, whothehell 's gonna click on that link!! ... Now, if the thing read "T'nA News - Scubaboard - ..."

---------- Post added October 9th, 2013 at 01:50 PM ----------

Nice comment, and like in the old days, "thank you for this meaningful post", SeaHorse.

That said, one problem with your analogy is, that unlike Apple adopting a consistent position/approach form the get-go, here it was really more like - when the HCT started - "Oh well, boys will be boys, let 'em play a little..."

In hindsight, probably not the best of decisions ...

 

[MMM]

I haven't personally banned someone for a long, long time but that's changed in the last week or so. I wouldn't be surprised if that were to happen again and I actually have my eye on 4 users at this point. They've been bopped from the Pub already and the next step is for them to find some other forum for their poison.

Think of it like purging your closet or your junk drawer Pete. Sometimes you are reluctant to tackle what you know is a big job and some of the stuff you think you are attached to. But you feel pretty good after you get rid of the mess that was clogging up your life.

 

[Arubandi07]

Think of it like purging your closet or your junk drawer Pete. Sometimes you are reluctant to tackle what you know is a big job and some of the stuff you think you are attached to. But you feel pretty good after you get rid of the mess that was clogging up your life.

Really more like the wife 'cleaning out' my closet, and throwing away all my ... well, never mind

 

[Diver0001]

LOL. I could actually visualize Pete cross dressing if it would help him make the point

 

[Arubandi07]

LOL. I could actually visualize Pete cross dressing if it would help him make the point

"Stardust" ... Not, that Pete could look anywhere near as good as De Niro ...

 

[Diver0001]

"Stardust" ... Not, that Pete could look anywhere near as good as De Niro ...

Yeah, I'm thinking the best he could give us would be Mrs. Doubtfire.

R..

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

 

[Rhone Man]

I recently read the Steve Jobs biography, where I first learned that Apple products (which I don't use, so I didn't know) are apparently set up to not support viewing of porn sites. There was apparently a hue and cry about this being an attempt to control the behavior of users.

I didn't see it that way. I saw it as people in the world (leaders at Apple) deciding that they didn't want to support pornography, so they chose to create devices that couldn't be used that way.

Don't forget the end. That is my favourite bit. The end of the story was that Apple abandoned their position in humiliating fashion.

 

[Arubandi07]

Don't forget the end. That is my favourite bit. The end of the story was that Apple abandoned their position in humiliating fashion.

Money talks, ...