Your Rights & Federal Vax Mandate
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:03 am
It seems that our moderator has taken offense to forum content. Has the discussion struck a nerve ? Have I anything to apologize for ? He has offered nothing of substance to back his reason:
"it’s going down the rabbit hole. You want to expand on epidemiology then there are places for that which is not here."
At least he was honest to reveal his bias: JK » Tue Oct 12, 2021 10:47 pm: "I can't comment because I fully agree with the vaccine requirement." I respect his right to have a personal position. But today he took the extreme position to lock the discussion. How is moderation that is affected by bias balanced moderation ? The topic gathered much interest with 109 views and 7 replies in about 4 days, quite high traffic for this forum.
How can the subject of injections to control an epidemic or pandemic be rightly discussed without some mention of matters of epidemiology ? If readers wish not to read about basic technical matters of epidemiology, they are certainly free to ignore the technical background that supports the main points, and move on to those points. Or they are free to not read any of it at all. But interested users have been done a disservice by closure of the discussion. Where is the rabbit hole in the discussion ? Do any points lack logical and factual backing ? If so, is it not the responsibility of the moderator to draw attention to any errors before locking the discussion. It seems that Dieselduck has joined the mainstream media to censor views that depart from official narrative. I have learned that the CBC website practices such sanitizing of comments to stories from users. We are also well aware of the restrictions on various social media. And now on Dieselduck we see the same authoritarian style censorship that we would expect in such regimes as China or North Korea. Why in "The True North Strong and Free" is free discussion not permitted ?
Censoring legitimate discussion on the most profound situation and subject in anyone's memory to affect the shipping industry and society in general has damaged this forum. If members are not permitted to freely and respectfully offer their comments, then what is the purpose of such a forum ? Everyone who reads this has been profoundly effected by the COVID phenomenon and the injections. To borrow from Arlo Guthrie, we've been , selected, inspected,neglected, dejected, and some have even been injected. Of those, some might have suffered adverse reactions, or they may know people who have. It is no small matter for the government to usurp power over fundamental Charter and Constitutional rights. It is the duty of government to defend such rights, not infringe upon them. In censoring discussion which involves these rights, this form moderation has supported the oppression.
Please keep the discussion going friends, whether here or in other situations. If we give in to fear, the battle to preserve our rights is lost. Getting them back when they are gone would be near impossible. Is support of traditional freedoms when they are under attack such a harmful position that discussion of it must be closed? Should health concerns for self and colleagues similarly be closed to discussion. People facing ill health due to possible affects of an injection that has not been subject to normal safety regime is beyond profound. Large numbers of personnel locked out of their jobs and many ships idled is no trivial matter to dismiss as "down the rabbit hole". Things seem to be going down a hole on a scale that is orders of magnitude larger than a rabbit hole.
I kindly ask the moderator to restore the discussion of a subject that so profoundly affects us all to the point that many face loss of livelihood, and the shipping industry is threatened by a loss of personnel to the injustice of a mandate that lacks true scientific scrutiny and lawful backing.
"it’s going down the rabbit hole. You want to expand on epidemiology then there are places for that which is not here."
At least he was honest to reveal his bias: JK » Tue Oct 12, 2021 10:47 pm: "I can't comment because I fully agree with the vaccine requirement." I respect his right to have a personal position. But today he took the extreme position to lock the discussion. How is moderation that is affected by bias balanced moderation ? The topic gathered much interest with 109 views and 7 replies in about 4 days, quite high traffic for this forum.
How can the subject of injections to control an epidemic or pandemic be rightly discussed without some mention of matters of epidemiology ? If readers wish not to read about basic technical matters of epidemiology, they are certainly free to ignore the technical background that supports the main points, and move on to those points. Or they are free to not read any of it at all. But interested users have been done a disservice by closure of the discussion. Where is the rabbit hole in the discussion ? Do any points lack logical and factual backing ? If so, is it not the responsibility of the moderator to draw attention to any errors before locking the discussion. It seems that Dieselduck has joined the mainstream media to censor views that depart from official narrative. I have learned that the CBC website practices such sanitizing of comments to stories from users. We are also well aware of the restrictions on various social media. And now on Dieselduck we see the same authoritarian style censorship that we would expect in such regimes as China or North Korea. Why in "The True North Strong and Free" is free discussion not permitted ?
Censoring legitimate discussion on the most profound situation and subject in anyone's memory to affect the shipping industry and society in general has damaged this forum. If members are not permitted to freely and respectfully offer their comments, then what is the purpose of such a forum ? Everyone who reads this has been profoundly effected by the COVID phenomenon and the injections. To borrow from Arlo Guthrie, we've been , selected, inspected,neglected, dejected, and some have even been injected. Of those, some might have suffered adverse reactions, or they may know people who have. It is no small matter for the government to usurp power over fundamental Charter and Constitutional rights. It is the duty of government to defend such rights, not infringe upon them. In censoring discussion which involves these rights, this form moderation has supported the oppression.
Please keep the discussion going friends, whether here or in other situations. If we give in to fear, the battle to preserve our rights is lost. Getting them back when they are gone would be near impossible. Is support of traditional freedoms when they are under attack such a harmful position that discussion of it must be closed? Should health concerns for self and colleagues similarly be closed to discussion. People facing ill health due to possible affects of an injection that has not been subject to normal safety regime is beyond profound. Large numbers of personnel locked out of their jobs and many ships idled is no trivial matter to dismiss as "down the rabbit hole". Things seem to be going down a hole on a scale that is orders of magnitude larger than a rabbit hole.
I kindly ask the moderator to restore the discussion of a subject that so profoundly affects us all to the point that many face loss of livelihood, and the shipping industry is threatened by a loss of personnel to the injustice of a mandate that lacks true scientific scrutiny and lawful backing.