This forum really is becoming somewhat of a joke; that is of course my opinion but the dictionary would tend to agree, "a public meeting or assembly for open discussion". That is how a forum is defined, I could go on further to define open and pubilc and to give the guidelines of free speech however most people I imagine will be familiar with those already.
For the comments above my post I imagine will be deleted or censored or my user account frozen.
This forum though is one of the best BB forums on the web; nay, one of the best entertainment forums on the web, it was home to ITV digital coverage and plays a big part of most peoples BB coverage at least it does for me. Which is why it rialls me to see censorship of any kind in here, after all it is an internet forum, a place for total anonymity if so desired and should be treated as such. A place where views which cannot be aired in normal conversation should be discussed frankly and honestly, a place where issues should not be seen as issues anymore but as topics of discussion.
Okay so DS don't want to lose their press pass or whatever so articles are confined to links or whatever to outside websites but that shoudl be the only cencorship as far as I am concerned.
We see evidence of BB production trying to influence our views of the housemates via selective editing on the C4 highlights shows, why should the forum do the same?
Okay so if someone posts a message that contains a racist joke which a housemate says, let the joke stay online and let people form their own opinions of it and the circumstances under which it was said. Racism, Homophobia and other such cultural and otherwise enviromental hatreds and phobias shoudl stand as BB is supposed to be a reprensentation of society. Besides, Tims comments about the disabled parking spots were posted on this website, are digital spy making an assesment on behalf of its users as to what counts as severe attacks and if they wish to be pedantic about the issue lets make one further assumption - are they deciding which groups of people should be treated as minorities and censoring as such. I say minorities because homophobia, racism and the like are usually forms of hatred towards minorities which the disabled, the elderly, the unemployed and many more people fall under.
I give up trying to reason now as I realise I stopped making sense after the first few words, I just felt I had to write a few words on teh subject, my apologies in advance.
XStronix.