What a joke. I'm into r/c cars in a big way, and there is a very large message board community connected with a large magazine. Like many boards they have an "off topic" area that is open to anything reasonable. I've gone round and round with many of these people who seem to be either overwhelmingly republican/conservative, or just plain stupid. They are mainly young poeople, with a fair amount of middle aged guys mixed in.
I started a thread about fascism connected with the high school raids a few weeks ago in SC. As of today they have banned all discussions of political religious, etc things in the attempt to make things more "civil" needless to say quite a few people are irritated, while a few are happy about banning such ugly things as political and social issues being discussed. These were not flame wars, and were actually pretty decent discussions about a wide range of issues.
I expect i'll get banned before it's all over because it irritates the shit out of me to quell discussion when it's not out of hand and is an obvious attempt to pander to a few people that complain about something they can choose not to participate in.
this is probably not all that uncommon, but it's still annoying as hell. If you're going to ban this type of discussion, it should be done at a site's inception.
anyway... another stake in the heart of public discourse..
http://www.radiocontrolzone.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=147422&perpage=40&pagenumber=1there's a link, i went off on a diatribe in page 2 if you're remotely interested.