[WikiEN-l] Inflammatory userboxes

[White Cat]

I would oppose the presence of ALL userboxes weather it supports or opposes
US troops in Iraq. Such political userboxes were banned before. No reason
why they were brought back. Seems like it is time for userboxen clean up
phase two. I find it very disturbing a few individuals use userboxes and
hence their userpages merely as a means to advocate their political views.

Supporting pedophilia is no different from supporting the US troops in Iraq
in the sense that both are political views. You cannot selectively
allow/disallow political views. That's just asking for trouble.

    - White Cat

On Jan 19, 2008 11:09 PM, Richard Symonds <hawkertyphoon at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > >Firstly, there's the issue of inflamatory userboxes. It appears that>
> >userboxes supporting American troops in Iraq are acceptable, but userboxes>
> >supporting the Iraqi insurgensy aren't. Userboxes supporting the killing
> of> >Iraqi insurgents are acceptable, but ones that support the killing of>
> > American troops aren't. Surely both the "support" ones should be
> acceptable,> >whilst the ones that support killing should be delete. Then
> there's the ones> >that advocate peodophilia. Users who have these often
> argue that we accept> >homosexual userboxes, which is just a stupid
> argument, but they don't seem> >to be able accept that. >The answer is, of
> course, to ban all such userboxes and be done with>it. Trying to decide what
> it is and isn't acceptable to express>support for is just asking for
> trouble.
>
> Or, of course, to accept them all. As long as the userboxes dont actually
> *kill* troops, or *engage in* paedophilia, there are no policies against it,
> are there? We shouldn't have *any* bias here, pro- or anti- anything.
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